The controversial Wisconsin law, passed in a 4-3 decision today by the Republican-dominated legislature, eliminates most collective bargaining rights for public workers in the state and requires higher fees for health coverage and pensions. Signed by Republican Governor Scott Walker, the law was passed amidst the largest public demonstrations in the city of Madison since […]

Shrimp farming, an industry that supplies the world with over 5 million metric tons of shrimp each year, is known throughout the environmental community as one of the world’s most destructive coastal industries. Aquaculture, the type of industry utilized by shrimp companies in areas like Southeast Asia, dramatically reduces biological diversity, degrades habitats, reduces genetic variability, […]

The status of Palestinian political prisoners in Israel has long been regarded as one of the central factors in the negotiation of a peace agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As of 2010 over 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in Israeli prisons, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The most famous of these is […]

An internationally backed referendum in January 2011 yielded a nearly unanimous vote among Southern Sudanese to secede from the North. On July 9, 2011 the Republic of South Sudan officially declared it’s independence in a ceremony attended by African leaders and officials from around the world. An estimated 1.5 million South Sudanese died in their […]

This Tuesday, President Barack Obama became the first president since John F. Kennedy to officially visit the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. On his way to the island, the President made an important overnight stop in Florida, the state with the second-highest Puerto Rican community behind New York. During a speech addressing the people of […]

As anyone who’s ever taken the 101 freeway knows, traffic in LA is a strange beast. Of the 50 most traffic-riddled metropolitan areas in the United States, Los Angeles is the worst. So it should come as no surprise that thinkers at Caltrans and the Van Alen Institute are hosting an exhibition about the potential […]

This Thursday, the United Egg Producers and the United States Humane Society signed an agreement giving chickens more living space. The proposed legislation would: mandate a replacement of conventional cages (currently used by more than 90 percent of the egg industry) with new housing systems that provide each hen nearly double the amount of space […]

                        In a previous article, I linked to a federal report showing that the majority of guns used by Mexican drug cartels south of the border are sourced not in Mexico but in our very own United States. According to the report and an […]

By Paul Tae Yang In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been helping my friend on some search engine optimization (SEO) work for WiserEarth, a non-profit dedicated to fostering collaboration among individuals from other non-profits and government and civic organizations around the world. WiserEarth does this through its online social network platform at Wiser.org. After […]

On Saturday, Spain’s Finance Minister Luis de Guindos announced that, in an emergency meeting, Eurozone and other European financial leaders agreed to a €100 billion bailout of private Spanish banks. While Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner rallied to sing the plan’s praises, German Chancellor […]