India

A column of frail women and children in brilliant cotton tunics deftly balance aluminum jars atop their heads as they trundle down a steep, eroded jungle hillside. They are spending most of their day in search of the area's most valuable commodity, clean drinking water. After hours of searching, what...

As the Olympic torch circumscribes the globe causing flare ups in its wake, the biggest protest may be tomorrow in New Delhi. India is home to the Dalai Lama and was the first safe harbor for Tibetan refugees when China annexed their homeland in 1950. So it's no small wonder...

World civilization is based on oil. The world is running out of oil. The oil companies and governments are not telling the truth about how close we are to the end. Dick Cheney knew about peak oil back in 1999 when he spoke to the London Petroleum Institute as Halliburton...

Bombay -- After two whirlwind weeks of our listening tour, the Sierra Club has announced its first major overseas initiative -- a $100,000 prize to be given annually in India to the grassroots organization that does the best work developing and creating green livelihoods -- work that solves environmental...

Kuttappan, an illiterate black pepper farmer, who in recent years has contemplated suicide twice and attempted it once -- he failed when his wife spotted him in time and cut the rope from his neck -- asked me a few weeks ago when I was in my village in India,...

Delhi -- This afternoon there is a major public health seminar here on the health impacts of climate change for India, warning that tropical diseases like dengue fever and chikungunya currently associated with Africa and a few parts of South India will become countrywide plagues as a result of global...

Like many Americans of my generation, I crave national unity and a leader to follow after what seems like a lifetime of political polarization. We're called blindly optimistic, naïve and hopelessly inexperienced.

Perhaps we are. I grew up in Washington DC, where my journalist parents covered numerous campaigns and administrations....

In his Washington Post column this week, Jay Matthews wrote that he just doesn't buy that students in China and India, who routinely outscore their American peers, are a threat to our economic competitiveness. "The more prosperous they are, the more prosperous we are," he writes, "since they will...

With a few exceptions, most agree global warming is an issue that requires immediate attention.

The science strongly suggests the warming of the planet will increase intense heat that will negatively impact crops and livestock.

With more people being potentially exposed to diseases like malaria and cholera, this phenomenon will...