Thursday, February 18, 2010

Covering Climate Change

by Ben Block - This article appears in the March/April 2010 issue of World Watch magazine.

News coverage of global climate change is on the rise worldwide, but more in-depth international reporting is needed...

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Yemen's Water Crisis Eclipses al Qaeda Threat

Feb 17-2-10 - by Ulf Laessing

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni water trader…





(REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)

Endangered Species on the Grill: The Black Market in Illegal Meat Flourishes in the US

AlterNet / By Anneli Rufus

Millions of fork-twirling gourmands -- many of them in the U.S. -- are eating...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Quarter of U.S. Nuclear Plants Are Leaking a Radioactive Material Linked to Cancer


Alternet - Harvey Wasserman feb 12 -2010


At least 27 of America's 104 aging atomic reactors are known to be leaking….

Oil Groups Mount Legal Challenge to Schwarzenegger's Tar Sands Ban

guardian.co Feb 16-2010

• Californian legislation branded 'unconstitutional'...

U.S. Press Digs Into IPCC Story

The Observatory — February 15, 2010 - By Curtis Brainard
Articles still fall short of ambitious work in the U.K.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Day After Tomorrow Might Have Been Yesterday

Matthew Berger - Inter Press Service - Feb. 14 - 2010

WASHINGTON, 12 Feb (IPS) - When the 2004 film "The Day After...

Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

The BBC A mangrove swamp in Indonesia. Photo by Adnankasogi. The world's coastal mangrove forests, which protect millions of people from...