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(AP:COPENHAGEN) UN chief Ban Ki-moon says rich and poor nations must 'stop pointing fingers' in climate talks. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
KABALA, Sierra Leone, 15 December 2009 – Hawa Marrah, 12, is a pupil of the Islamic Primary School in Kabala, an agrarian community in northern Sierra Leone. Her results from the National Primary School Examination have just been published and she is one of five girls who had the best results in the district.
Rich Greene has joined Lockheed Martin Corporation as the Director of Global Aid and Development.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told nations that they had the chance to "change the course of our history" if they worked together to limit carbon emissions that are blamed for increasing global temperatures.
The White House said Tuesday it didn't expect President Barack Obama to sign a nuclear weapons treaty with Russia when he travels to Copenhagen this week.
(RTTNews) - Iran on Tuesday rejected a news report which suggested that the Islamic Republic has been working for over four years on a key nuclear component that triggers an explosion.
The AIA Board of Directors has chosen Los Angeles-based Pugh + Scarpa Architects as the recipient of the 2010 AIA Architecture Firm Award.
Honduras has been hit harder by extreme weather events than almost any other country over the last 18 years, says a study released at the Copenhagen climate summit.
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Two professors from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary have weighed in on the debate surrounding the U.S. Senate's consideration of cap-and-trade legislation and the United Nations' Dec. 7-18 summit on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Credit Suisse , the second-largest Swiss bank after UBS , said Tuesday that it expected to pay a fine of $536 million to settle charges with the federal government and state authorities in New York that it violated sanctions against doing business with Iran and other countries.
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 15, 2009) - Avenir Diversified Income Trust (the "Trust" or "Avenir Trust") (TSX:AVF.UN) is pleased to advise that the $25 million note that the Trust received as part of the $185 million sale of the EnerVest Management Assets ("EnerVest") in May of 2008, has been repaid. Avenir Trust has received $5 million in cash and 1.6 million in units of a large ...
As national leaders from around the world are gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark, to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the time is ripe to...
n VOENA youth choir has physical singing style, multiethnic flavor
Coral reef monitoringResearch indicates that coral reefs will not survive the rapid increases in global temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide forecasted for this century by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Coral reefs are threatened by overfishing, coastal pollution, global warming and ocean acidification.To help the World Bank monitor the health of coral reefs in the ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark , December 15, 2009 (ENS) - The CO2 E-Race was among the many extraordinary events in Copenhagen this week intended to wake up the world to a low-carbon reality.
Al Gore's pitch for saving the planet from global warming appears to be falling on increasingly deaf ears, a Zogby Interactive survey shows.
Kenyan police are searching for 12 members of the Eritrean national soccer team who failed to return home after competing in a regional tournament in Nairobi, a spokesman said Monday.
NEW YORK, USA, 15 December 2009 – All eyes were on Copenhagen this week as the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 entered its crucial second week. UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman addressed – via video message - a distinguished group of UN climate experts at a panel discussion on Monday.
DIBRUGARH, India, 15 December 2009 – In the hills of Assam, a state in north eastern India, women scattered across the landscape pick more than80 per cent of the country's famous tea – largely by hand.
The heat is on climate negotiators who are "running out of time" because of differences between developing countries and the world's wealthiest nations, an African observer at the Copenhagen climate conference said.
COPENHAGEN --- Tesla Motors hosted test-drives and led informational sessions about electric vehicles last week during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Denmark.
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