This one's for you, Judy. While some Americans still refuse to believe global warming, walruses are swarming to the Alaskan shore to escape melting ice and Russian and German ships just inaugurated a new shipping route through the once-frozen Arctic Sea.

Surely, if anyone can rally the planet to save itself it's the community organizer who rose from the blood-spattered ruins of the South Side of Chicago to depose the most virulent strain of American conservatism yet. And the world is counting on him:

The world's biggest polluters continue to claim progress in international climate-change negotiations, while cautioning that they have to pick up momentum, but the world's smallest nations are aghast not only at the pace, but at the modest goals.

"The Cove," a documentary-thriller (more on that in a moment) about the ongoing slaughter of dolphins in a cove at Taiji, Japan, opens tonight in Los Angeles and New York and then will sweep across less stylish regions of the U.S. in August.

The Heritage Foundation's senior policy analyst for Latin America, Ray Walser, penned a commentary this week entitled "Honduras' Conservative Awakening" that tries to justify the coup on democratic grounds, which requires some fantastic gymnastic logic...

Political bigwigs in Kosovo harass its brave free media

YANGON, Myanmar-As the trial of famed dissident Aung San Suu Kyi continues in this crumbling, monsoon-soaked city, residents are privately expressing anger and dismay over the proceedings. But they are giving little indication they intend to challenge--

President Obama's Thursday trip to Mexico City is designed to highlight Mexico's importance to three issues confronting the Western Hemisphere--energy and climate change, crime and battling drug cartels, and the economic crisis and its impact on the poor.

The Czech president says environmentalists are just interested in control. MIT scientist says his colleagues only say the globe is warming to win acclaim.