These Charts Prove That The World Is Getting Dramatically Better, Not Worse

Tomorrow is Red Nose Day, an annual fundraising campaign organized by public charity Comic Relief Inc. to help alleviate child poverty. In the U.S. alone, one in seven fami...

UN Committee May Again Consider Listing Great Barrier Reef As 'In Danger'

As a condition of UNESCO not listing the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” in 2015, the World Heritage Committee said Australia needed to report back to the com...

Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct By Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say

Australia — Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first...

Reinventing L.A. Street By Street

In major cities, streets are thought of mainly as thoroughfares for cars, not as public space for all to enjoy. The Great Streets Initiative, proposed by Los Angeles Mayor ...

Report Says Huge Sections Of Australia's Great Barrier Reef Are Dead

Mass coral bleaching has destroyed at least 35 percent of the northern and central Great Barrier Reef, a major blow to the World Heritage Site that attracts about $3.59 bil...

Australia Scrubbed From UN Climate Change Report After Government Intervention

Every reference to Australia was scrubbed from the final version of a major UN report on climate change after the Australian government intervened, objecting that the infor...

Cinematic Luminaries Ian Mckellen And Aamir Khan Discuss Shakespearean Influence At The Iconic Launch Of The MAMI Film Club

(Highlighted by a candid conversation on Shakespeare and his global influence on film, art & culture, the event saw some heart-warming exchanges between the actors as t...

The Ocean Conditions That Are Bleaching the Great Barrier Reef May Be the New Normal in 20 Years

The coral bleaching that has devastated Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef — and been described as the most extreme event in the reef's history — would have ...

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...