The global financial crisis has pushed the ranks of the hungry to a record 1 billion people, a milestone that poses a threat to peace and security, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said.
A WHO study finds that non-motorists disproportionately bear the brunt of traffic fatalities. Car accidents are the world’s 10th leading cause of death, on track to become fifth by 2030.
Many developed nations will boycott a UN conference on the financial crisis, objecting to efforts by General Assembly president Miguel d’Escoto to discuss reforming the World Bank and IMF.
“What we are not doingâwhat I have no interest in doingâis running GM,” President Obama assured upon announcing the government’s large ownership stake in the reorganized General Motors.
President Obama announced plans for national fuel efficiency requirements aimed at conserving 1.8 billion barrels of oil and reducing emissions by 900 million metric tons.
President Obama’s Automotive Task Force has slashed Chrysler’s advertising budget as a condition of the company’s bankruptcy restructuring.
With a climate bill now being crafted on Capitol Hill, Democrats are supporting a measure that would instate a carbon-trading systemâwhile Republicans favor subsidies for nuclear power.
To keep global temperatures from rising 2 degrees C., researchers say carbon emissions must be limited to 1 trillion metric tonsâmore than half already released since the Industrial Revolution.
At the first global gathering of indigenous peoples on climate change, delegates meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, demanded an immediate moratorium on new fossil fuel development.
Greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare, the Environmental Protection Agency finds in a scientific review ordered in 2007 by the Supreme Court.
A three judge panel of the DC Circuit vacated the Bush-era program for leasing of land for oil and gas drilling on the US Outer Continental Shelf along the Alaskan coast.
Last year it was the oil shock. This year it’s the econo-cataclysm. Either way, there’s a lesson here. But how many people are going to get it? From AP, April 6: WASHINGTON â U.S. highway deaths in 2008 fell to… Read moreHghway deaths down to 1960s levels
