The Justice Department is investigating whether Blackwater bribed Iraqi officials to allow continued operations in the country following shooting deaths in 2007.
Seeking ways to trim the federal budget, the Obama administration has decided to outsource the planned invasion of the Moon to the private sector. Cue Blackwater.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted an error in claiming Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2035—but this doesn’t mean the glaciers aren’t melting.
President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 28% by 2020, pursuant to Executive Order 13514, signed in October.
Continuing global economic growth “is not possible” if the world is to stop devastating climate change, according to a report by the New Economics Foundation (Nef).
The world’s 370 million indigenous people suffer disproportionately high rates of poverty, and are often threatened with extinction, according to the first UN report on the question.
Citing “hopeful” signs in the twin threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is moving its Doomsday Clock one minute away from midnight.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed stricter smog standards that would replace the Bush administration’s broader 2008 national smog regulations.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced new rules for obtaining oil and gas drilling leases on public lands, increasing oversight and public input, and overturning Bush-era reforms.
More than 900 protesters were arrested in a massive march on the Copenhagen climate summit, as a draft agreement leaked to the press would shift the burden for the crisis onto the developing world.
In Indian-occupied Kashmir, Cuba, Israel and several other places around the world, marches commemorating Human Rights Day were met with official harassment and repression.
The UN warns that global hunger is rising, while a USDA report reaches similar conclusions on domestic hunger. Yet few world leaders showed up for a UN summit on food security in Rome.
