Communities affected by wind energy development being kept in the dark

Eddie O’Connor of Mainstream Renewable Power, writing (Irish Times, December 19th) about economic stagnation, suggests that “building a new green economy”...

Scientists to create future climate conditions under Antarctic waters

Scientists are preparing to mimic predicted ocean conditions in Antarctica.

Under climate change modelling, scientists predict polar waters will absorb greater conc...

Climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations

Shifts in climate – both large and small – are at least partly responsible for the rise and fall of many ancient civilizations. Could today’s climate chan...

Having given up on world peace, here's a modest Christmas wish list for Santa Claus

Top of my list would be for Americans to stop confusing politics with morality, law with ethics. Government has an important job: to protect us in the exercise of our right...

Wars Need to be Won on the Inside

Life caged her, death came and freed her!

She radiated hope like a diamond, forever shining, smiling, affecting people with her sense of courage and love for living...

Pages from the Diary of a Community Health Worker

It was just another day in the late summer of 1992. Fresh from the success of a community intervention that sought to limit the effects of an outbreak of a gastrointestinal...

FORBIDDEN VOICES

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Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But influential cyber feminists from Cuba, China and Iran keep blogging about the...

ONE DAY AFTER PEACE

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An Israeli mother’s emotional search for reconciliation with the Palestinian sniper who killed her son in an ambush on Israeli po...

CAMP 14: TOTAL CONTROL ZONE

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Born inside a North Korean prison camp as the child of political prisoners, Shin Dong-hyuk was raised in a world where all he knew was pun...