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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that any agreement to combat global warming should require developing countries like India and China to reduce emissions.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the influenza pandemic alert level to phase 4, just two steps shy of a global pandemic alert, according to Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's assistant director-general for health security and environment. And while the WHO does not recommend countries close borders or restrict travel, they are moving forward with plans to produce a swine flu vaccine as soon as possible, he told reporters in a teleconference this evening. [More]

Hillary Clinton offers admission to ease obstacles towards reaching agreement at climate change summit in CopenhagenThe Obama administration issued a mea culpa today on America's role in causing climate change, in a move to get the major economies working together on a global warming treaty.The admission by Hillary Clinton at a two-day meeting of the world's biggest polluters was intended to ease some of the obstacles towards a deal at UN talks in Copenhagen in December. She placed the gathering of officials from 17 countries, the European Union and the United Nations on a par with the G20 meeting on the economic crisis earlier this month.As the secretary of state opened the meeting, the Greenpeace US executive director, Phil Radford, was arrested in his first day in the job. He and six other climbers unfurled a banner from a construction crane near the state department with a message for the environment ministers: 'Stop Global Warming. Rescue the Planet.' Radford called for the indust

A top US official said that the European Union had overreacted to the outbreak in swine flu when it advised travellers against visiting the country, even as he himself cited the disease as a reason not to travel to Mexico

Mexico, which is already swept in panic over an outbreak of swine flu, the virus suspected of killing over 100 people and sickening more than 1,000 in the country, has now become the epicenter of another disaster: an earthquake. [More]

Greenpeace has launched guidelines and an on-line pre-order petition at the European Tuna Conference in Brussels calling on retailers, restaurants and tuna traders to pre-order and shift their supplies to sustainable and equitable skipjack tuna.

People choose leaders with masculine faces in times of war and feminine faces when peace-keeping's needed – regardless of their actual gender

Among the veterans are 23,000 women and 10,000 disabled war veterans. Municipalities and cities across the country arrange various ceremonies on April 27 to mark the occasion, which has been cel...

[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]April 25th was World Malaria Day. The mosquito-borne disease is still one of the biggest killers in developing countries with a death toll of a million each year. But there’s an international push for a multi-front war on malaria, ranging from cheap and effective bed netting to the development of a vaccine. The Gates Foundation has bet on vaccines, but is also funding less conventional scientific approaches. [More]

Among the veterans are 23,000 women and 10,000 disabled war veterans. Municipalities and cities across the country arrange different ceremonies on April 27th to mark the occasion, which has been...