WORLD NEWS

• December
• Faster Climate Change Feared
• Core of the Problem
• E. Benjamin Skinner | A World Enslaved
• The Disappearing Male View the entire film
• Stephen Leahy | Climate Change: Chasm Widens Between Science and Policy
• The Crisis: An Opportunity to Save the Planet
• Obama Left With Little Time to Curb Global Warming
• NOW | Climate Change Crisis: An Entire Nation Being Washed Away
• Mood Mixed As Climate Summit Ends
• World Markets Plunge as US Auto Bailout Fails
• California Adopts Major Global Warming Plan
• Robin Willoughby | Human Rights ... for Whom?
• UN: Climate Talks to Fail Without Tough CO₂ Goals
• Climate Change: Save the Planet from Capitalism by Evo Morales
• Philippe Escande | The World Hangs in the Balance
• Al Gore: Don't Count on Magic
• November
• Paul Krugman: What to Do
• At the U.N., a Firebrand Increasingly in the Mainstream Economic Order Led by U.S. Is Popular Target
• Rise in Carbon-Fueled Ocean Acidity Threatens Shellfish
• No Nukes
• Sun Sets on US Power: Report Predicts End of Dominance
• Obama Promises Global Leadership on Climate Change [VIDEO]
• IMF: More Countries Seek Aid Every Day
• Brown Clouds Threaten World Food Supply
• G20 Economic Summit to Confront Dueling Demands
• Al Gore | The Climate for Change
• What Obama's Election Means Abroad
• World Hopes for "Less Arrogant America"
• October
• Sea-Level Rise Threatens Sydney Coast
• Maude Barlow: The Al Gore of H₂O
• Genetically Unique Plants Matter Most in Current Mass Extinction
• Risk of Disease Rises With Water Temperatures
• Chris Wood | The Business of Saving the Earth
• US Focus on Climate Could Ease Financial Crisis
• Supreme Court Shows Little Sympathy for Whales Beset by Sonar
• Evidence of Warming Growing: Pachauri
• World Stock Markets Volatile After Rate Cuts
• Global Markets Plunge
• Global debt writeoffs to total $1.4 trillion US: IMF
• UN Agrees Afghan War Cannot Be Won Militarily
• Nearly a Quarter of World's Mammals Face Extinction, Annual "Red List" Reports
• The Wall Street Mega Bailout: Bad News for the World's Hungry
• Felicity Lawrence | Free Trade Can Mean the Poor Stay Hungry
• The Methane Time Bomb
• Global Warming Law Will Boost California Economy, Study Finds
• U.S. Supreme Court's Global Influence Is Waning
• Central banks move to shore up financial system
• Huge Increase in Spending on Water Urged to Avert Global Catastrophe
• Study Says Old Growth Forests Bank Carbon Dioxide
• Jon Talton | In Another Era, Climate Would Seem Ripe for Unions
• Thaw of Polar Regions May Need New UN Laws
• Beyond Carbon: Scientists Worry About Nitrogen's Effects
• Alaska: Climate-Change Frontier
• Digging Up the Dirt on Arctic Carbon
• Food, Fuel and Water Crises Converging
• World Markets Fall Sharply Amid Fear of Economic Slowdown
• Water Progresses, Sanitation Regresses
• Suffocating Dead Zones Spread Across World's Oceans
• Global Warming Battle Heats Up
• Cornelia Dean | Handle With Care
• Sixth Species Extinction Can Still Be Avoided
• Alexandra Spieldoch | The Food Crisis and Global Institutions
• Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans' Decline
• Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization
• Paul Krugman | Can This Planet Be Saved?
• "Major Discovery" From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution
• WTO Talks Collapse Amidst Concerns for Food Security
• Guy Taillefer | Polar Race
• Summers Hotter as Climate Changes
• Ocean Quest: The Race to Save the World's Coral Reefs
• Walden Bello | The Anti-Climate Summit
• World Court Urges US to Stay Five Executions
• "We Have Seven Years Left to Reverse the CO₂ Emissions Curve"
• Orangutans "On Fast Track to Extinction"
• Richard Ellis | Politicizing the Polar Bear
• World Bank Approves Climate Funds Before G8 Summit
• US Leads World in Substance Abuse
• Dr. Reese Halter | Global Warming's Twin Evil: Wildfires and Drought
• David Korten | Smart Security and the End of War
• No Ice at the North Pole
• Mike Davis | Living on the Ice Shelf: Humanity's Melt Down
• John Feffer | Empty Plate Club
• The Los Angeles Times | The Price of Hunger
• Report Says Severe Weather to Increase as Earth Warms
• Midwest Farmland Flooding Boosts Worldwide Food Prices
• Floods Threaten World's Corn
• Chemical Law Has Global Impact
• Fury at Soaring Fuel Costs Spreads Around the World
• Prices Leap for Corn and Crude Oil
• World Bank to Scan National Oil Companies
• Agency Calls for "Energy Revolution"
• World Leaders Struggle to Agree to Food Crisis Plan
• Noninfectious Illnesses Are Expected to Become Top Killers
• Heated Arguments Begin Over Climate Change
• Scientists Were Censored by NASA
• Degrading Arctic Ice May Release Climate Threat
• 111 Nations, But Not US, Adopt Cluster Bomb Treaty
• May
• Is Water Becoming the New Oil?
• Soils Enriched With Calcium to Trap Carbon Gas
• Scott Thill | Climate Destruction Will Produce Millions of "Envirogees"
• Lora Lumpe | America AWOL on Cluster Bombs
• Ocean Dead Zones Spread Due to Global Warming
• Britain Obstructs Global Ban on Use of Cluster Bombs
• Mysterious Arctic Whale Under Threat From Changing Habitat
• Hope Shand | Corporations Grab Climate Genes
• World Carbon Dioxide Levels Highest for 650,000 Years, Says US Report
• Ten Million Children Worldwide Die From Lack of Health Care
• Monsanto's Harvest of Fear
• Oxygen-Poor Ocean Zones Are Growing
• Dawn of an Energy Famine
• GRAIN | Making a Killing From Hunger
• April
• Climate Change Hitting Arctic Faster, Harder
• Marie-Beatrice Baudet | Six Crises That Jostle the World
• Ken Ward | Earth Day Preachin'
• UN Taskforce to Tackle Global Food Crisis
• The New Economics of Hunger
• Anuradha Mittal | Food Riots Erupt Worldwide
• Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth
• Report Criticizes Response to Climate Threats
• UN Cuts School Children's Meals
• Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide and Methane, Rise Sharply in 2007
• Melting Methane
• James Hansen | Timeline for Irreversible Climate Change
• Peter Asmus | Don't Wait for "Leaders" to Act on Global Warming
• World's Land Surfaces Reach Record Temperature
• The Nuclear Option
• Merrill Lynch's Carbon Bet
• Polar Bears May Have to Chill Ten Weeks
• Bill McKibben | Launching an International Grassroots Climate Campaign
• Stern Says Climate Targets "Badly Underestimated"
• Derrick Z. Jackson | One Less Burger, One Safer Planet
• Melting Mountains Called a Water "Time Bomb"
• Food Security: Neither Technology Nor Free Markets Nor the World Bank
• UN Report: Change in Farming Can Feed World
• Biofuel: The Burning Question
• Michael T. Klare | The End of the World as You Know It
• UN Body Urges Agriculture Reforms to Stave Off Food Crisis
• Financing Crucial to Next Climate Change Pact
• Rich States Failing to Lead on Emissions
• Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | Climate Change Rage Drives Global Hunger
• Global Warming Has a New Battleground: Coal Plants
• Finance Ministers Emphasize Food Crisis Over Credit Crisis
• Rising Food Prices Spark Deadly Unrest
• Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security
• Warming Trends Rise in Large Ocean Areas
• Bill Henderson | Jim Hansen, the Big Ice Melt and the Mainstream Media
• Slowing Deforestation May Be Worth Billions
• World Health Day Warns of Global Warming Risks
• Study Finds Climate Target Is Not Radical Enough
• A Shift in the Debate Over Global Warming
• Solar Science Research Contradicts Climate Change Skeptics
• World Bank Accused of Climate Change "Hijack"
• Jayalakshmi K. | Are the Oceans Giving Up?
• Talks Begin on New International Climate Treaty
• Oil Is a Slippery Situation
• March
• Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate
• The New York Times | Broken Ice in Antarctica
• Lights Out, Action! It's Earth Hour
• For Carbon Emissions, a Goal of Less Than Zero
• Massive Chunk of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses
• Fred Pearce | Save the Climate by Saving the Forests
• Soot May Play Big Role in Climate Change
• Ancient Arctic Ice Is Melting
• Glaciers Suffer Record Shrinkage
• Eric Le Boucher | Triple Shock to the Global Economy
• Dollar's Clout Sinks Worldwide
• "Environmental Rights Are Related to Many Other Rights"
• Brecher, Costello and Smith | Labor's War on Global Warming
• Go Green, Save the Indigenous
• Carbon Output Must Near Zero to Avert Danger
• Tom Whipple | The Peak Oil Crisis: Polity on Trial
• Stephen Leahy | Climate Change: The Ostrich Brigades
• The New York Times | Confessions on Climate
• Warming May Have Caused Salmon Collapse
• Maude Barlow | It's Time for the UN to Make Water a Human Right
• Arctic Warming Could Result in Armed Conflict
• February
• Brother, Can You Spare a Carbon Credit?
• Alaska Town Sues 24 Energy Firms on Climate Change
• Sumatran Deforestation Driving Climate Change and Species Extinction
• Doomsday Vault for World's Seeds Is Opened Under Arctic Mountain
• Coral Reefs and What Ruins Them
• Feed the World? We Are Fighting a Losing Battle, UN Admits
• GM Exec Defends Calling Global Warming a "Crock"
• As South American Rivers Dry Up, Miners Tap Ocean
• Investors Tackling Global Warming While Governments Spar
• US Should Speed Up Energy Efficiency Plans
• Fishing Pressure Pushing Sharks Toward Extinction
• Gore Warns on "Subprime Carbon" Industry
• Revealed: Polluting Impact of Humans on the Oceans
• Oceans Eyed as New Energy Source
• True Scale of Shipping Pollution Revealed
• UN Security Council Urged to Punish CO₂ Offenders
• UN Weighs a Ban on Weapons in Space, but US Still Objects
• Billionaires Bring Climate Change Action Plans to UN
• UN Systems Gear Up to Save Farm Sector From Climate Impact
• Water Shortages Drive Conflicts Worldwide
• Studies Say Clearing Land for Biofuels Will Aid Warming
• Why the Price of "Peak Oil" Is Famine
• The World's Rubbish Dump
• To Save a Forest: Grand Plan to Preserve Trees, Protect Climate
• World's Oil Supply May Be Past Peak
• Fight Looms Over Global AIDS Program
• The Climate May Be Right for a Global Warming Bill in U.S.
• Scientists Identify "Tipping Points" of Climate Change
• Michael Tomasky | There's Been No Contest Like It
• Stephen Hume | A Double Whammy for the Food Supply
• Craig and Marc Kielburger | Obesity Becoming World Crisis
• The Greenback Is Losing Global Appeal
• George Monbiot | Population Growth Pales Against Greed of the Rich
• Big Business Says Climate Change Low on the Agenda
• January
• Carbon Trading Must Be Globally Regulated
• Control Laurent Joffrin writes for Liberation, "The name that fits those who have presided over the deregulation of global finance is now clear: Frankenstein."
• World's Big Polluters Meet in Hawaii Over Climate
• Mark Bittman | Rethinking the Meat Guzzler
• Myret Zaki | The Crash of Disgust
• The Lowdown on Topsoil: It's Disappearing
• The New York Times | Until All the Fish Are Gone
• Nuclear Waste Concerns Resurface
• World Economic Forum: The Public Eye Is Watching
• Destruction of Rainforest Accelerates Despite Outcry
• World Bank Pledges to Save Trees - Then Helps Cut Down Amazon Forest
• With Nuclear Rebirth Come New Worries
• Ice Loss in Antarctica Escalating
• When Will Global Warming Reach a Political Tipping Point?
• Can the World Afford the Tata Nano?
• Climate Change: The Real New Hampshire Story
• The Christian Science Monitor | Capitalizing on Climate-Change Momentum
• FTC Asks If Carbon-Offset Money Is Well Spent
• Patrick Bond | From False to Real Solutions for Climate Change
• In Greenland, Ice and Instability
• The San Francisco Chronicle | Global Warming Goes to Court
• Burning Biofuels May Be Worse Than Coal and Oil
• Ecofashion Wins on Runway, Helps Farms