(November 09, 2009 | Demographics)
Working conditions must be improved for older people if governments and companies are to persuade them to continue contributing to economic growth into their old age, according to Swedish and British scientists.
(November 06, 2009 | Energy)
An Indonesia-based study is showing carbon-rich tropical peat lands trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market and strengthening the case for their protection.
(November 06, 2009 | Safety & Health)
China is fighting malaria not on its own soil, where the deadly disease has been sharply pruned back, but in Africa, where it is forging new diplomatic and economic relations.
(November 05, 2009 | Energy)
Spectators, media and sponsors planning to attend next year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver will be under pressure to offset their carbon emissions, organizers said.
(November 04, 2009 | Climate Change)
A UN conference in Copenhagen in December is due to agree a new pact to combat global warming after mounting evidence that human activity is disrupting the climate. The following is a timeline of the discovery of global warming.
(November 04, 2009 | Energy)
A U.N. scheme initially shunned by investors as too risky is now pulling them in to help achieve dramatic cuts in carbon emissions in developing countries and improve the livelihoods of millions of people.
(November 03, 2009 | Demographics)
The global economic recession has not curbed the desire of the world's poor to seek a better future by migrating, Gallup Inc. said after carrying out a worldwide poll.
(November 03, 2009 | Climate Change)
African nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Tuesday in a protest to urge rich countries to set deeper 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
(November 03, 2009 | Climate Change)
The Maldives could achieve its aim of becoming carbon neutral well before its 2020 target, the Indian Ocean island nation's president said.
(November 02, 2009 | Climate Change)
The mysterious people who etched the "Nazca Lines" across deserts in Peru hastened their own demise by clearing forests 1,500 years ago, according to a Cambridge University study.
