Thousands March on White House to Protest Climate Change Demonstrators formed a human pipeline Sunday, stretching from the National Mall to the White House, to protest an oil pipeline that would stretch across the United States, linking Canada to the...
Analysts: Benedict Departure Will Leave Little Room for Change In the crypt of the Washington Basilica, America's largest Roman Catholic church, Monsignor Vito Buonanno echoed the shock many Catholics felt over the first papal resignation in six cent...
Soaring Population, Climate Change Stress Resources Advances and losses Progress has been made. Since world leaders met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the first Earth Summit on Sustainable Development 20 years ago, global poverty has fallen by half,...
On Changes --Irene Dunlap Change is the only absolute in the world, the only thing that you can depend on. Nothing stays the same. Tomorrow will come, bringing with it new beginnings and sometimes unexpected endings. You can hold on to the past and g...
Developing Countries Want Rich Nations to Pay for Climate Change Delegates from nearly 200 countries - rich and poor - are in Doha to extend the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 global climate change agreement that expires at the end of this month, and to be...
New Study Could Change Treatment For Asthma Most adults who have mild or moderate asthma are told to use their inhalers twice daily, even if they don't have symptoms. The medicine in those compressed-air inhalers are corticosteroids, which open a per...
UN Chief Warns of Perils Ahead of Climate Change Conference The first decade of this century was the hottest on record, and the vast majority of scientists attribute the changes to greenhouse gases that trap heat in the lower atmosphere. Those gases...
Trees Stand Tall Against Climate Change The next U.N. Climate Change Conference gets underway November 26 in Doha, Qatar. Once again, negotiators will try to reach a broad agreement on dealing with rising global temperatures. Deforestation is expecte...
Kurds Have New Hopes Amid Mideast Changes It's lunchtime, and kebabs are on the grill at a newly-opened Kurdish restaurant in the Washington area. Hekmat Bamarni came here from northern Iraq in the 1970s, and he sits at a table in the restaurant with...
Emerging Economy in Northeast Ohio Could Change Votes A bright future awaits Gary McDowell. He's still a teenager, but what he's doing will shield him from Ohio's seven percent unemployment. These welding classes will connect him to a high paying job...