The Coast Guard closes a stretch of the swollen Mississippi River. MEMPHIS — The Coast Guard closed a stretch of the swollen Mississippi to barge traffic Friday in a move that could cause a backup along the mighty river, while police farther south in Memphis went door to door, warning thousands of p
Washington, D.C. - Climate change already is cutting into grain yields, and likely increasing food prices, in most of the world other than the United States, scientists say.While U.S. farmers have enjoyed a relatively favorable climate, yield gains in other regions over the past three decades have b
We spend 2% of world Gross Product or watch world Gross Product decline 30%. But hey, no problem, it is just our children and grand children that will have to suffer, and die.
Imagine it's 2035 and you're driving into San Francisco on the Golden Gate Bridge. You look out toward the ocean and see ships waiting in a line while a giant metal apparatus closes off the mouth of the Bay, stopping the incoming high tide from flooding the low-lying urban waterfront.
Gandhi was asked, in all seriousness, 'Gandhi, what do you think of western civilization?' He replied in all seriousness, "In think it would be a very good idea." He wasn't kidding. " Addiction to more and more over consumption is NOT civilization, but rather, the height of Un-Civilization." SL "The greatest poverty I've seen in all the world is the poverty of the spirit in the United States." Teresa of Calcutta.
An American woman is more than seven times as likely as one in Ireland to die from pregnancy-related causes and her maternal death risk is 15 times that in Greece.
OSLO (Reuters) - Quickening climate change in the Arctic including a thaw of Greenland's ice could raise world sea levels by up to 1.6 meters by 2100, an international report showed on Tuesday.Such a