Greece is on the verge of economic collapse and yet the country's left wants to jettison austerity measures. Would this leave any altern...

Our decisions to trust people with our money are based more on how they look then how they behave, according to new research from the Univer...

Attention, college students cramming between midterms and finals: Binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid ...

Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive ...

Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely ...

The developing world is lagging badly in the bid to reach global targets related to food and nutrition, and rates of child and maternal mort...

When it comes to creating a sustainable, green economy, failure cannot be an option — not least for future generations. That provocative sta...

A recent report gives a critical view of the Clean Development Mechanism in Africa. The report, “ The CDM in Africa: Can’t Deliver the Money...

Colonialism never ended, it continues by different means By George Monbiot | The Guardian 1st May 2012 in monbiot.com | 30 April 2012

We British have a peculiar ability to blot out our colonial history By George Monbiot | The Guardian 24th April 2012 in monbiot.com | 23 A...

I cannot vote in the French presidential election. While as an EU citizen with residence in France I have the right to vote for the mayor, I...

BP has reached definitive agreements with more than 100,000 private plaintiffs to resolve claims for economic, property and medical damages ...

Farmers in Tree Bank programme harvest long-term profits and win over sceptical neighbours Bangkok Post | 19/04/2012 “Are you in your ri...

World leaders must promote effective land use methods to mitigate drought, says Luc Gnacadja of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification ...

The crash in carbon credit prices globally has served a crushing blow to companies operating in this space in India. Firms, whose business m...

Many indigenous peoples are living examples of societies thriving with sustainable, low-carbon lifestyles. Successfully meeting the global c...

Since the fading belief that the world is in the grip of runaway man-made global warming still threatens us with the biggest bill in history...

Interview with Frances Seymour, CIFOR, at CIFOR’s office, Bogor, March 2012. (The response to one question from Lou Verchot was by email.) ...

Finally, public opinion around the biotech industry's contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached th...

Environmentalism and socialism have not always been on the best of terms. In the 60s and 70s, for example, there were fierce polemics betwee...

The reversal of fortune in America’s energy supplies in recent years holds the promise of abundant and cheaper fuel, and it could have profo...

The world’s largest energy companies have big plans for Mozambique By MARK SCOTT | The New York Times | April 10, 2012 A rig near the vi...

“Capital,” said Nobel chemist and pioneer ecological economist Frederick Soddy,”merely means unearned income divided by the rate of interest...

A new journal article finds that methane leakage greatly undercuts or eliminates entirely the climate benefit of a switch to natural gas. Th...

Kevin Anderson explains why he refused to purchase a carbon offset, and why you should steer clear of them too Nature | 04 April 2012

My local 'newspaper' recently published an opinion piece ( Stouffville Tribune , Unions biggest threat to quality education, March 3...

Achieving water democracy is surely a terrific opportunity to fix governance problems from the local to the global, but it's one enormou...

2011 Goldman Prize winner Ursula Sladek discusses how she became an unwitting energy mogul -- and a global environmental hero By Sven Eber...

Fly and be Damned gets underneath the well-known facts about the unsustainable nature of the aviation industry and argues for fundamental ch...

Somalia is a failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbours and the wider world Zed Books | 13 March 2012 Getting Somal...

The northern region of Gujarat State in western India ( map ) is semi-arid and prone to droughts, receiving almost all of its rain during th...

The man who signed the permit that allowed 1600 hectares of carbon-rich peat forest and orang-utan habitat to be razed and turned into a pal...

In an era of growing worldwide disdain at any mention of their ilk, did you ever wonder how bankers might feel? Would you believe that there...

Climate change is already shaping conflicts around the world--and not for the better By Joshua Zaffos and Daily Climate | Scientific Ame...

An Indonesian court has thrown out a lawsuit concerning the development of peat swamp forests that was brought by conservationists who fear ...

Nuclear Regulatory Commission OKs New Nuclear Plants in South Carolina Common Dreams   | March 30, 2012 The Vogtle nuclear power plant, ...

Last November, French authorities lifted a longtime ban that prohibited French farmers from planting MON810, a move that spurred nationwide ...

At the same time that it is committing hundreds of millions of dollars a year to protecting rainforests, Norway is investing more than 13 bi...

Leading Indonesian political parties said on Friday they will oppose a government plan to raise fuel prices unless oil prices climb further,...

Institutions like India's Barefoot College, which teaches women how to run and repair solar installations, and projects like Microformer...

On Friday, President Obama announced that he is nominating physician and Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. ...

The United Nations University International Human Dimensions Programme recently ran a writing contest with a focus on the human dimensions o...

Fires raging unchecked in an Indonesian peat swamp forest could wipe out the remaining Sumatran orang-utans which live there, conservationis...

Architects all over the world have demonstrated the usefulness of buildings which are heated and cooled by design rather than by fossil fuel...

The Deepwater Horizon incident demonstrated that most of the oil left is deep offshore or in other locations difficult to reach. Moreover, t...

Interview with Tejo Pramono, La Via Campesina and Elisha Kartini, Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI – Indonesian Farmers Union) at SPI’s offic...

The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed the first-ever standards to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants -- a move welcom...

Tropical forests, alongside boreal forests and wetlands, are prime ecosystems for storing carbon. Now, researchers have created a new high-r...

This may seem like an odd question for a climate scientist to ask, but it is one I am constantly asked now. The typical discussion starts: “...

Environmental activists have launched an urgent appeal calling for a "just decision" in a court case that has pitted Aceh's ...

On 9 September 2007, Australian Ministers and the Indonesian President announced a $100 million Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (...

How much ‘unburnable’ carbon is there on the world’s stock exchanges? Last year, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) published an analysis ...

Japan has shut down another nuclear power station, bringing it a step closer to suspending atomic energy, following the Fukushima disaster ...

This March, at the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC, I saw a documentary on the destruction of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, onc...

For some Saturday’s Anniversary would have been a painful reminder of the reckless behaviour of Big Oil Andy Rowell | Oil Change Internat...

In “The Delusions of Economics”, Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective...

The world’s first 6-MW offshore wind turbine went up in the North Sea this week. Wind company  REpower and C- Power NV, a Belgian offshore d...

The most popular techno-fix for global warming is green energy. If energy companies would only deploy wind, hydro, solar, geothermal or nucl...

In a SPIEGEL interview, Czech economist Tomas Sedlacek discusses morality in the current crisis and why he believes an economic policy that ...

Louise Murray joined an international team of research scientists in Borneo, where burrowing mites and enraged elephants are just part of a ...