Ten days before the UN climate conference opens in Copenhagen, EU officials welcomed emissions pledges by China and the US as a crucial step towards an agreement, but stressed that the commitments had to match the developed world’s ”common target” of keeping global warming below 2°C. “We will continue to urge the US, China and all our other partners in [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an official and an activist said. The protesters had chained themselves to cranes at a paper mill. Authorities deported seven of the foreigners, and the [...]

The tragedy is that many throughout the world have little food to survive on and many go to bed hungry every night. It was recently reported that world hunger now touches the lives of over 1 billion of the worlds population. It is a sad reality that someone dies of starvation every three seconds of [...]