India will not be deal-breaker in Copenhagen: Environment minister

The Global Warming Religion: Those Without Blind Faith Need Not Apply

By: Ezekiel3719

As world leaders prepare to converge on the U.N. climate change convention in Copenhagen next week, the belief in global warming and climate change is increasingly becoming less science and more religion.  In fact, Al Gore himself, the one being called the "eco-prophet" and "the Moses of this generation" recently admitted as much.&...

5 days ago

UN chief cautious on Copenhagen pact amid boycott

By: zabawaus

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that world nations are unlikely to strike agreement on details of a new climate change pact at a key U.N. summit next month. Meanwhile, African countries boycotted meetings at U.N. climate talks in Barcelona, saying industrial countries had set carbon-cutting targets too low for reducing global ...

about 1 month ago

Kashmir’s Operation Green Hunt

By: dustgeer

The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as living deities. Now these hills have been sold for the bauxite they contain. Perhaps the Kondh are supposed ...

25 days ago

Obama aims to reassure Singh on U.S.-India ties

By: azhar12

President Barack Obama hosts Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday for talks considered critical to showing Washington's commitment to New Delhi in a region where its rivals, China and Pakistan, are U.S. priorities. Obama's challenge will be to ease the emerging Asian power's concerns that it is slipping down his foreign ...

13 days ago