Disaster Management
Will talk of the ‘Big One’ shake the US into quake prep?
The "Portland Mamas" listserv was on fire this summer. But the heated debates were not about schools and strollers in Oregon's largest city.
Disaster Management
Will a new Mexico arise from earthquake’s rubble
An earthquake releases energy that has accumulated for years between the Earth's tectonic plates.
Legacy Reports
Will The West Sell Out The Kurds Yet Again
President George W. Bush pledged U.S. support for anti-terrorism efforts in Turkey, but concrete U.S.
Oil And Gas
Will Sudan’s peace deal with rebels work?
Sudan's government and rebel forces have agreed a landmark deal aimed at ending decades of war in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.
Terror Wars
Will Obama’s Arab coalition stay the course?
US President Barack Obama has pulled off a diplomatic coup, knitting together a coalition of Arab nations with differing agendas to strike jihadists, but experts question its long-term staying power.
Nukewars
Will China turn off North Korea’s oil?
China feeds North Korea's energy needs through the "Sino-DPRK Friendship Oil Pipeline", but Washington wants Beijing to turn off the tap to pressure its neighbour into abandoning its nuclear programme.
Terror Wars
Wildlife group says poaching funds Somalia’s Shebab
Somalia's Shebab militia, which carried out a bloody attack on Nairobi's Westgate mall, is in part funded by the poaching trade, wildlife activists said Thursday.
Flora And Fauna
Wildlife on a glidepath to ‘mass extinction’: Red List chief
Nearly 30 percent of the 138,374 species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List are at risk of extinction, the global conservation body reported Saturday.
Flora And Fauna
Wildlife groups accused of funding abuses against Pygmies in Africa
Wildlife guards funded by the WWF and other conservation groups have carried out systematic abuses against tribes in central Africa, an activist group claimed on Monday.
Flora And Fauna
Wildlife numbers halved over past four decades: WWF
Wildlife numbers have plunged by more than half in just 40 years as Earth's human population has nearly doubled, a survey of over 3,000 vertebrate species revealed on Tuesday.
Fire Storm
Wildfires rip through California wine country, thousands flee homes
Thousands of people were forced to flee their homes in California's Napa Valley Monday as wildfires ripped through the region's world-famous wine country.
Fire Storm
Wildfires threaten Russia’s unique Lake Baikal
Raging wildfires have turned the shores of the world's largest freshwater lake in Siberia into an inferno, threatening the health and livelihood of locals and raising questions about Russia's ability to protect its natural heritage.
Fire Storm
Wildfires threaten California’s treasured Sequoias
Wildfires sweeping across California are threatening the US state's famed Sequoia trees, with firefighters scrambling to protect the national treasures.
Froth And Bubble
Wildfires producing ‘witches’ brew’ of air pollution: UN
Wildfires are releasing a "witches' brew" of pollutants that can end up wrecking air quality a continent away from the blaze, the UN's weather and climate agency said Friday.
Fire Storm
Wildfires rage across drought-hit California
As many as 6,000 firefighters were battling Tuesday a wave of wildfires raging across California, which is gripped by a historic drought and near-record temperatures.
Fire Storm
Wildfires tear through western US during heatwave
Wildfires fueled by soaring temperatures in the western United States have scorched thousands of acres, forcing hundreds of families to flee, US officials said Monday.