Indonesia deports Greenpeace activists
AP - Sat Nov 14, 6:55 am ETIndonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction.
Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction.
Greenpeace, the global environmental group, called Friday on US President Barack Obama to become more engaged on climate change at home and abroad, just two days ahead of his visit to China.
But the inquiry into the blaze fails to address key questions about the agency's actions on Day 2. A U.S. Forest Service review of its response to the Station fire has concluded that the blaze raged out of control because it spread into terrain too steep for firefighters to safely confront the flames, but the inquiry failed to address key questions about the agency's actions on the critical ...
US Forest Service: Spread of deadly Los Angeles wildfire unpreventable due to steep terrain.
The largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history raged out of control because it jumped into inaccessible terrain, not because the U.S. Forest Service scaled back firefighters and aircraft attacking the flames, a federal review found Friday.
J on Turtletaub wants to make a movie about the origins of Greenpeace, the activist arm of the modern environmental movement. The director of the National Treasure movies seems like an odd choice to do a movie about the origins and early triumphs of the group that made "Save the Whales" a rallying cry for a people out to save a planet in peril.
Ethiopian rebels fighting for independence for a region with potentially significant oil and gas reserves said on Saturday they had captured seven towns near the border with neighboring Somalia.
Asia Pacific leaders backed away on Saturday from supporting a global halving of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, even as Brazil pledged deep cuts of its own over the next decade.
Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time.
At 75, Charles Manson has spent more than half his life in prison for masterminding the notorious Helter Skelter killing spree that left actress Sharon Tate and six others dead in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969.
Asia Pacific leaders are backing away from a target of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, pledging instead to "substantially" slash them by that date, the latest draft of their summit statement says.
Master spinner Muttiah Muralitharan seeks to scale twin peaks in the series against India -- win Sri Lanka's first test on Indian soil and put his country top of the world test rankings for the first time.
France and Brazil have adopted a common policy for next week's global warming summit in Copenhagen, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday.
The Dutch government plans to bring the polluter-pays principle into the home garage.
Valley ranch may become nursery for cottonwoods Staff Reports Members of The Nature Conservancy, Mariah Power and the Audubon Society planted cottonwood trees at the River Fork Ranch near Genoa on Oct. 23. The volunteer day, sponsored in part by Toyota's Together Green program, was open to the community to join volunteers from Mariah Power. "We are excited to spend a day planting trees with the ...
President Obama's popular and rhetorical success on the global stage has not yet been matched by resolution of the United States' foreign policy challenges.
Brazil said Friday it would offer a "voluntary" cut of at least 36 percent in greenhouse gas emissions at the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen next month.
Historic Venice is approaching the dread status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000 — a largely symbolic threshold considered by some to signal the end of the city's viability.
A federal agency reversed its conclusion that contamination posed no risks to residents in Puerto Rico.
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama promised broader engagement with Asia, staking a U.S. claim in shaping the future development of a region that is leading the world out of recession.
Peru and Chile were embroiled Saturday in a worsening serious diplomatic row, after two Chilean military officials were allegedly found to be spying in Peru.