By Tony Blair (International Herald Tribune)
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008
Scientists and political leaders are now united over the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But there is a danger of a yawning chasm on the size and speed of the cuts we require.

By Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008
Americans will regret their myopia if they allow Iraqi refugees to grow up uneducated and unemployable.

By Andrew Downie (The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
Fears have been growing over the future of the world’s biggest rain forest, in Brazil, where annual deforestation figures fell to a 16-year low in 2007 but is on the rise again

By Pete Harrison (Reuters)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
Biofuels are responsible for 30 percent of the increase in global food prices, pushing 30 million people worldwide into poverty, the aid agency Oxfam said in a report Wednesday.

By Sarah Lyall (The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
Britain is in the midst of a trash crisis. Threatened with steep fines if they dump too much trash, local governments are imposing strict rules to force residents to produce less and recycle more

By Judy Dempsey (International Herald Tribune)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
While governments say it is time to diversify energy sources to reduce dependence on oil, they don’t speak about the direct link between oil and natural gas

By Thomas L. Friedman (The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
We may one day look back on the last few months as Iraq’s real war of liberation. The one we led five years ago didn’t count.

By William J. Amelio (International Herald Tribune)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
Poverty is receding at a rate unsurpassed in history; and the power of the emerging dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers and innovators worldwide have only just now begun to transform our world.

By Marc Lacey (The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
In his will, the conservative Wilson Lucom doled out relatively small portions of his tens of millions of dollars to survivors - he left the rest to a foundation to aid the poor children of Panama. It has set off a vicious legal battle that is [...]

By Saree Makdisi (International Herald Tribune)
TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2008
Every dimension of everyday Palestinian life is minutely managed by Israeli military or bureaucratic personnel.

(The New York Times)
MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008
With gas prices rising above $4 a gallon, we could hardly be more eager for a car powered by an energy source that emits nothing worse than water.

(The New York Times)
MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008
There is an urgent need for the government to adopt consistent humane policies that treat women’s rights as fundamental human rights.

By Jeff Jacoby (International Herald Tribune)
MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008
The belief that human population growth leads to hunger, shortages, and a ravaged environment resists evidence to the contrary

By John B. Bellinger (The New York Times)
MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008
There has been much talk in the press about a “race to the Arctic” and even some calls for a new treaty to govern the “lawless” Arctic region. We should all cool down