The world’s leaders meet early next week at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York to adopt the Pact for the ...

This paper provides an analysis of how current and projected climate change risks are affecting production and trade by the major cereal producers, exporters and importers in international markets. We ...

The future development, management, protection and use of freshwater resources has become a topic of considerable international debate over the past decade, involving a wide range of actors and ...

An effective trade policy is central to the integration of Russia in the international economic system and the growth that will generate: Tariff policy is the centerpiece of trade policy in a market ...

Scott Gremel makes his way swiftly and surely up the steep trail, across a frigid stream, through the colossal stands of hemlock and Douglas fir. On the ridgeline, thousands of feet above where he ...

Acid rain may seem, like, so 1980s, but the problem has not gone away. Researchers reported this week that soils throughout the Northeast are continuing to acidify, despite a 50 percent decrease in ...

Factory farms -- giant livestock farms also known as feedlots that house thousands of cows, chickens or pigs -- produce staggering amounts of animal wastes. As a new NRDC report shows, the way these ...

The overflow of people at the ECO-FARM conference was bustling with energy. Dr. John Reganold, one of the new heroes of the organic movement, had just presented findings from a study that compared ...

BELTSVILLE, Md. - Pregnant women should limit consumption of tuna fish, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel recommended last week in a bid to balance concerns about mercury poisoning with the ...

Some years back, Oman made an unusual request to India. The oil-rich Middle-East country was looking for four pure-bred animals of the cattle breed - Tharparkar -- found only in the dry and arid ...

In the Philippines, traditional knowledge touches on almost all facets of the economic and social development of a community from agriculture to literature and from customary law to arts and crafts.

Statement by Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand on complementary approaches, or benchmarks, for WTO services negotiations. It also proposes a way forward for the ...