Leaders arriving to sign a Copenhagen climate agreement and finding that they now need to salvage it need to take a global rather than national approach to the numerous outstanding issues, WWF said today.

We at Oxfam see it every day: climate change is increasing hunger and poverty around the world. And this week at the climate summit in Copenhagen, President Obama and other leaders are making decisions that will affect the world's poor for decades to

As the world's diplomats duel over her destiny, Aminatou Haidar, on the 29th day of her hunger strike, could be hours from death she has been on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport since being deported there from her home in Western Sahara on 15 Nov

On Saturday, over 100,000 people marched in Copenhagen calling on world leaders to agree to a just climate policy. Leading the march was a delegation of indigenous leaders from communities on the front lines of climate change.

The demonstrations are more widespread than those after the disputed June 12 election, which is still the main cause of the outrage. Security forces refrain from deadly force, but there is violence.

Edgar Enrique Bayardo, a former federal police commander, is shot to death in a Mexico City coffee shop. His is the second recent death of a high-profile informant sharing details on drug cartels.

India has long been plagued by unscrupulous moneylenders who exploit impoverished farmers. But with crops failing more frequently, farmers are left even more desperate and vulnerable.

Only 80 wild elephants are left in Vietnam, according to Vietnam's state-run newspaper, Lao Dong. Experts at the Vietnam Forest Management Agency workshop, held earlier this week, reported the elephant population in Vietnam is in rapid decline.

French journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin examines the dark and troubling influence of American chemical and biotech giant Monsanto. Her incendiary film documents a corporate legacy of greed, death, poverty and illness --from the creation (and

HUH???? Listen to the words of Naomi Klein! PULEEZ! (How demeaning to those who've worked so hard and EARNED the honor.)