Producer and director Aaron Woolf’s new film “King Corn” has provoked a rich debate among moviegoers about the wisdom of U.S. farm subsidies, but taking on big corn was so difficult  it has left him poor. 
The film profiles two recent East Coast college graduates, who after reading reports of the declining nutritional value of U.S. food,  move to Iowa to grow one acre of corn.
The neophyte farmers attempt to follow the corn they grow [...]

This weekend the vanguard of an army of up to 15,000 people will fly to the remote Indonesian island of Bali to talk about saving humanity from the worst ravages of human-induced climate change by cutting carbon gas emissions.
To many people that may seem a total contradiction in terms given that aviation emissions are far [...]

With U.N. climate talks scheduled for Dec 3-14 in Bali, Indonesia, countries are facing one of the biggest puzzles in history – how to curb the rise in greenhouse gases that are disrupting the climate.
Developing nations say the rich countries, led by the United States, should do more to take the lead since their emissions per capita are [...]

The United Nations says that the world has surpassed a goal of planting a billion trees in 2007. The campaign target was surpassed just counting forestry efforts by three countries – Ethiopia (700 million), Mexico (217 million) and Turkey (150 million) .
When the goal was launched last year at a U.N. climate meeting in Nairobi, U.N. Environment Programme chief [...]

By Erik Kirschbaum in Berlin
    Politicians are masters at beating around the bush. But when the very master of that art in the European Union lets his guard down for a moment and candidly admits that it is precisely those political instincts that are thwarting progress on climate
protection, it’s worth taking note.
    Jose Manuel Barroso, [...]

Amid all the news about climate change I’ve become curious about the size of my ‘carbon footprint’. And it’s not been hard to work it out given the huge number of online calculators available. The estimates vary but my family is apparently responsible for about 7 tonnes a year. I’m troubled by this and I’ve [...]

  Climate change is a threat, we must all work together but we can’t let it affect economic growth or the ambitions of hundreds of millions of impoverished people to live better lives.
    That was basically the message from some of the world’s top polluters on Wednesday after they signed a regional climate declaration,  less than two [...]

Next year will be the International Year of Sanitation, according to the United Nations, which produced a shocking set of statistics on Wednesday — 2.6 billion people, or 41 percent of the world’s population, do not have access to latrines or any sort of basic sanitation facilities.
Every year inadequate water and poor sanitation and [...]

How many legitimate children do you have?
That gem was among many questions — also including “name of schools attended”? “countries previously visited (place and time)”? — I had to answer as I filled in a deluge of forms when applying for an Indonesian visa to attend next month’s U.N. climate conference in Bali.
The Indonesian Embassy [...]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just presented its summary report on how bad climate change is.
There’s one inconsistency in there which doesn’t undermine for me the key IPCC message — that climate change is a serious threat towards which mankind is hurtling.
But it has left me with a feeling that in one [...]

Ever fancied escaping the rat-race, and waking up instead to the sound of bird song over a steaming mug of home-made coffee?
According to author Nick Rosen, that’s now becoming possible.
It’s down to a combination of weakening restrictions on house-building and the falling cost of installing off-grid electricity like wind and solar power, says Rosen, author [...]

One of the people behind a spoof study claiming that zillions of bacteria in the oceans are to blame for global warming has owned up, saying it was meant to show that some sceptics will uncritically grab any evidence casting doubt on most scientists’ view that human activities are the main cause.
David Thorpe, who works [...]

  The world might squabbling over the Kyoto Protocol and how best to fight climate change.
     But a project involving thousands of ocean robots shows nations can still cooperate when it comes to weather forecasting and understanding the science of global warming.
     The 26-nation Argo project involves deploying and maintaining an array of tube-shaped robots 1.5 [...]

Small island states meeting in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean this week are working on a resolution saying that climate change is a threat to human rights.
Is it?
The idea of linking human rights and the environment — a strategy also adopted by the Inuit in the Arctic who have also launched a petition to the Inter-American [...]