The US senate on Monday confirmed Janet Yellen as the first woman to run the US central bank. Elected with a vote of 56 to 26,...
Campaigners have said the “clock is ticking” on an environmental disaster in the Arctic, after oil giant Gazprom announced the first commercial production from the oil...
US environmentalist Bill McKibben has argued that the Obama administration has continued to promote the extraction of polluting fossil fuels – the majority of which need...
US president Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to meet 20% of its electricity demand with renewable energy by 2020. The target represents an increase...
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president who fought for racial equality and to defeat apartheid, has died aged 95 in Johannesburg after a long illness,...
Today is Thanksgiving, the day our American cousins attend parades, eat turkeys, watch American football, and, well, give thanks. To mark the day, we’ve reviewed the...
The US Department of Defence has issued an Arctic Strategy, which outlines how it plans to turn the vulnerable area into a “secure and stable region...
Five years ago today, Barack Obama was elected the 56th president of the US. Charlotte Malone takes a look at the environment, energy and climate track...
Thirty-two years ago today, US national debt passed $1 trillion for the first time. Today it stands at $17 trillion and the increase shows no sign of...
Barack Obama has nominated Janet Yellen as the new head of the Federal Reserve – the US central bank. If confirmed, she will become the first...
The Chinese government has launched a new plan to reduce the number of coal-fired power plants and improve air quality in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong regions....
Fifty years ago today, civil rights activist and clergyman Martin Luther King Jr talked to 250,000 supporters at the Lincoln memorial in Washington, calling for the...
A national action plan for tackling climate change is essential to more ambitious international agreements, a study has claimed. Researchers from the Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE)...
In a recently published Arctic strategy, Barack Obama’s administration set out its vision for the vulnerable northern region. Nicky Stubbs examines what it might mean for...
Earlier this month, 200 evangelical Christian scientists wrote an open letter to the US Congress, urging for climate change legislation to be passed on religious grounds. It...