Negotiators from 12 government members (“Parties”) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet ...

Over the last few years, several new trade-related initiatives designed to slow deforestation associated with the trade of ...

Agricultural commodity exports are driving deforestation around the world, spurred by consumer demand in the North and the ...

The chemical/biotechnology company Monsanto knew for years that the PCBs it was producing were harmful to people and the environment. This article describes how the company tried to cover up the harm ...

The Congressional staffer moved up in their chair and looked up from the notepad with a quizzical expression. These farmers ...

Mexico is facing a growing mountain of hazardous waste, despite an environmental accord with the US and a continental trade deal that were supposed to discourage further environmental degradation. The ...

Introduced species are a growing and imminent threat to living marine resources in the United States. Hundreds of species arrive in U.S. waters from overseas each day, playing a game of ecological ...

Farm to School and Farm to Early Care initiatives focus on three main tenets: local purchasing, gardening, and food and ...

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the ...

It is not easy to describe systems thinking. After all, the very heart of a systems approach is the opposite of simple: complexity. That is exactly why IATP chooses a systems approach — because in ...

"Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and grown in many parts in these two countries ever since," says ...

Payments for environmental services (PES) is an emerging economics based methodology of conservation management. The basic principle of PES is that external environmental services (ES) beneficiaries ...