Category: Governments & Politics

EU to Lock Down Radioactive Waste

Europe sought Wednesday to lock away forever lethal radioactive waste, but a European Commission warning of hopelessly inadequate disposal

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Better Monitoring Urged For Oceans

Ocean scientists urged governments on Sunday to invest billions of dollars by 2015 in a new system to monitor

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2010 Exceptional for Disasters

Catastrophic floods in Pakistan, wildfires in Russia, hurricanes in Mexico: 2010 has so far been an "exceptional" year for

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US Pledges 2 Million for Indonesia

Ambassador Scot Marciel has announced that the U.S. Government Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) will provide USD 2

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Nations Agree Deal to Save Nature

Delegates from nearly 200 nations agreed on Friday to a sweeping plan to stem the loss of species by

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BP Blamed For Skipping Cement Test

Halliburton admitted skipping a key cement test before the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico blowout, as the oil services behemoth

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Anti-Nuclear Activists go on Trial

Fifty-eight environmental activists, many of them Greenpeace members, went on trial Thursday for demonstrating in July against Turkey's plans

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US Secures Gulf BP Oil Spill Site

A security zone has been set up around the site of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of

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15 Nations Agree to Combat Climate Change

Some 15 Mediterranean countries, including Israel and the Palestinian Authority, agreed Friday to work together to combat the effects

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Greenpeace barred from Indonesia

Global environmental pressure group Greenpeace said Thursday its Rainbow Warrior flagship had been denied access to Indonesian waters to

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