The United Nations declared 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity to bring greater attention to the importance of biodiversity and efforts to reduce the current rate of biodiversity loss
Last month, Spanish parliment granted some rights, formerly reserved for humans, to our closest biological relatives, the great apes -- chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans.
This will bring a myriad of new issues into legal debate, as it should.
As Senator Obama's presidential platform starts to take shape, economists and tax officials here in New York and Washington are warning that his fiscal policies could have a devastating effect on what is, in effect, New York's biggest crop -- capital gains
SAN FRANCISCO (Associated Press) -- A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot.
Governor Paterson, delivering a speech today at the NAACP's 99th annual convention at Cincinnati, suggested that the defeat of Senator Obama in the presidential election would be a victory for racism in America. Mr. Paterson, a former lieutenant governor
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move some species to save them.
Today's cutting edge colleges and universities have gone way beyond simple recycling to starting organic gardens and farms, installing green roofs and solar panels, treating wastes with "living machines" and offsetting all emissions.
