While U.S. legislators and journalists focus their attention on the safety and financial implications of Toyota’s recall—now expected to cost more than $5 billion over the next year

An update on the latest Haiti recovery efforts from the UN.

The top UN official in Haiti traveled to UN headquarters for the first time in eight weeks and briefed the press on Haiti…

At a reception at the State Department yesterday Lupe Fiasco, Emile Hirsch, Kenna, Undersecretary of State Maria Otero and Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley.

Actors, Musicians, ambassadors and…

indian parliament photophoto: Kartikeya Kaul via flickr. India the world’s last major emitter to formally back the Copenhagen Accord has done so. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the decision…

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India one step closer to setting aside 1/3 of elected offices for women legislators; South Africa gets 42 million condoms ahead of World Cup
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solar panels colorado photoDistributed generation for utilities is part of the mandate. Photo: Solar Dave via flickr. Now this is getting somewhere… Climate Progress reports that the Colorado House of…

outsourced carbon emissions chartimage: Carnegie Institution We’ve written about the phenomenon of outsourced carbon emissions a number of times, with the example of perhaps up to one third of China’s emissions coming…

fossil fish photophoto: Kevin Walsh via flickr. You’ve probably heard the stat that extinction rates are currently somewhere between 100-1000 times historic levels, which is bad enough, but now the

A video message from the Sec Gen

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