At first glance, funding climate action through soil carbon credits instead of taxpayer dollars may seem like a win-win ...

Declaration of the Greens in the European Parliament on the forthcoming WTO negotiations and the Millennium Round. World Trade Organization Climate Change ...

First-hand account of events during the Seattle WTO Ministerial.

Seven years after the conclusion of the Uruguay Round, it appears appropriate to consider possible improvements in the functioning of the WTO system.

Four states sued the Bush administration Thursday over an invasive, tree-eating beetle that has entered the U.S. as a stowaway on cargo ships. The Asian long-horned beetle, along with the emerald ash ...

Factory farms -- giant livestock farms also known as feedlots that house thousands of cows, chickens or pigs -- produce staggering amounts of animal wastes. As a new NRDC report shows, the way these ...

In the Philippines, traditional knowledge touches on almost all facets of the economic and social development of a community from agriculture to literature and from customary law to arts and crafts.

"Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and grown in many parts in these two countries ever since," says ...

Energy can play a crucial role in underpinning efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and improving the lives of poor people across the world. Lack of access to adequate, ...

In California, the state with the largest agricultural economy in the country, farm work is conducted by a workforce of about 600,000 men and women. From 1991 to 1996 the California EPA's Department ...

Do antidumping laws have anti-competitive consequences and restrict trade? These questions arise repeatedly in multilateral and bilateral trade talks. Although there are reasons to suspect that ...

The Jerusalem Post | By David Newman | September 18, 2002 It is a coincidence that on the very day I sit down to write a review of a new book on the Middle East water question for an academic journal, ...