The Amazon rainforest is another imperiled carbon sink — one of the most crucial in the world. But deforestation – much of it by logging – is severely affecting the complex ecosystem. Logging activities...
Download Audio The planet’s atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations reached a new record high in 2013, driven by a surge in carbon dioxide levels. That’s according to a report released this week by the United...
Download Audio In a public address Wednesday night, President Barack Obama announced a four point approach for an expanded offensive against the radical Islamist militants who call themselves the Islamic State. President Obama said...
Download audio This summer could end up being one of the worst on record for corals in the Caribbean and Florida. First, they’re facing unprecedented levels of ocean acidification. The World Meteorological Organization’s annual...
Federal authorities are taking steps to regulate the sex trade under the banner of a nationwide effort to prevent human trafficking. From freezing sex workers’ bank accounts to shutting down adult advertising sites, a...
Download audio The rapid territorial expansion of the Islamic State has prompted a new look at armed actors operating in the region of the Middle East where the population of ethnic Kurds spans the...
** Editors Note: This story was updated 9/12/2014 Just days after advancing a measure that would give Congress the authority to cap donations to federal political campaigns, the Senate GOP reversed itself and blocked...
Advocates for a free internet are in Istanbul as the UN holds Internet Governance Legal challenge to NSA bulk metadata collection advances to appeals court Fast food workers stage national sit-ins and walk-outs...
This week marked a couple of milestones in national environmental policy. On Wednesday, the Wilderness Act turned 50. The law created the National Wilderness Preservation System, charged with protecting and maintaining just over nine...
In Istanbul, internet activists boycotted the UN’s annual Internet Governance Forum, and held a parallel event to protest the choice of Turkey as host of the event. The country has a poor record on...
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