This week, U.S. President Barack Obama formally unveiled the details of his Clean Power Plan (CPP), a comprehensive carbon-cutting strategy he described as “the biggest and most important step…ever taken to combat climate change” in a prior video address posted on Facebook.
As set down in the …
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Unique Alliance Between Gauchos and Environmentalists Protects Argentina’s Pampas
The traditions of Argentina’s gauchos or cowboys have joined together with modern agricultural technology in a unique alliance between stockbreeders and environmentalists aimed at preserving biodiversity in the pampas, boosting productivity, and enhancing the flavour of this South America’s …
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Head of State Who Keeps U.N. Guessing in Annual Ritual
As part of a politically-amusing annual ritual, the guessing game is on at the United Nations: will he, or will he not, address the General Assembly, along with more than 150 heads of state who are due in New York next month?
Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has been indicted on war …
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U.N. Post-2015 Development Agenda Adopted Amidst Closed-Door Deals
At about a quarter to seven on the evening of Sunday, Aug. 2, the member states of the united nations adopted the post-2015 development agenda outcome document, titled “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda.”
As governments endorsed the 29-page product resulting from almost two years of …
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Opinion: Look at Nuclear Weapons in a New Way
It’s absolutely necessary to remember what happened 70 years ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, see the movies from then, listen to the survivors, the hibakusa. But it isn’t enough for us to rid the world of these crimes-against-humanity weapons. And that we must.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are history …
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Ugandan Women Hail Partial Success Over “Bride Price” System
After years of a protracted battle against Uganda’s “bride price” practice, the country’s Supreme Court this week ruled that husbands can no longer demand that it be returned in the event of dissolution of a customary marriage but has stopped short of declaring the practice itself …
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