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May 24, 2013 - Naturalist and comedian Bill Oddie will today attend the HSBC annual general meeting to seek answers from the board of directors over the bank’s lending to companies destroying Borneo’s rainforests. The companies that HSBC has l...

May 24, 2013 - President Obama, in yesterday's major defence policy speech, failed to provide any meaningful assistance to the hunger-striking detainees being held without charge at Guantanamo Bay. The speech comes amid revelations that prisoners are b...

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 24, 2013 - Today, leaders of the Committee for the American Clean Energy Agenda praised Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and 22 of her House colleagues for publicly urging U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to release a long-overd...

May 24,2013 - A conference of 500 leading water scientists from around the world today issued a stark warning that, without major reforms, "in the short span of one or two generations, the majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will be living under ...

May 23, 2013 - As President Obama gives a speech on national security — including defending U.S. use of drones to combat terrorism — Leila Sadat, JD, international law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, argues that s...

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 - Given the implications for the overall health, development, and academic success of children, schools should play a primary role in ensuring that all students have opportunities to engage in at least 60 minutes per day of vig...

LONDON, May 23, 2013 - Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, made one of his strongest speeches yet on the dangers of a warming planet when he warned this month that climate change is "the greatest risk we have ever faced". Action must be taken n...

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 - Youth plaintiffs vow to appeal a string of decisions in their precedent-setting federal litigation over climate change. The case places the youth of America against the federal government and the fossil fuel industry over the...

May 23, 2013 - Almost half of all money invested in developing countries is channelled through tax havens, a new ActionAid report revealed today. The report, How Tax Havens Plunder the Poor, shows how tax havens can often allow companies and investors...

ROME, May 24, 2013 - The State of School Feeding Worldwide report is being launched today by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), providing for the first time a global picture and analysis of school feeding programmes in well-off countrie...