National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations comes out with the results of its sixth annual “Destinations Rated” compilation. The scoring was done by an ‘independent panel of 437 experts in fields from historic preservation and sustainable tourism to travel writing and archaeology to assess 133 iconic places around the world.’
The scoring was based on [...]

The social network LinkedIn focused in professionals announced that now has 50 million users in the world.
In a post in the official blog, CEO Jeff Weiner detached the participation of India as one of the reasons for the ascension of the site. In a small period of time, he says, the country almost [...]

According to a recent report by Survival International, a London-based group that advocates for native cultures, ‘native peoples are suffering a swine flu infection rate four to five times higher than that of the general population.’ Native-rights groups assert that the world’s indigenous people such as tribes are at ‘greatest risk from the swine flu [...]

Forget peak oil. What the world will grapple with in the future is something far scarier than the alarm over peak oil: peak water. And just like oil, the problem behind water scarcity is the unequal distribution of and unequal access to the resource.
The global imbalance in the distribution and access to water looks dismal: [...]

There are some large newspapers that are planning to put up Internet toll booths to test ‘readers’ willingness to pay for information and entertainment that mostly has been given away online for the past 15 years.’ Charging for online news may yet be a thing in the foreseeable future as the recession has diminished profits [...]

The developing countries will now play a more significant role in the economic policies of the world. The ultra-elite club of the richest industrial nations known as G7 will relinquish its top level global economic forum to the much broader G20 that includes the emerging economies and developing countries such as China, Brazil, and India.
The [...]

Supporters of the World Trade Organization have sung praises on how the organization is the institution of even the smallest countries and the most inconsequential economies. They evoke an impression of a welcoming congregation where everybody has an equal footing, equal voice, equal presence, and equal significance. That’s an impossible scenario, of course. There’s nothing [...]

In the Pacific, there used to be hundreds of thousands in whale population. There were once nearly 100,000 grey whales. The numbers have terribly dwindled today.  Sustained fishery of whales from the bays and inlets of the English Channel, as early as the onset of the Middle Ages, is a practice that began in the [...]

Designer drugs like Ecstasy and crystal meth are on the rise worldwide. On the other hand, the demand for conventional drugs such as cocaine and cannabis decreases. These are some of the conclusions presented in the recently published World Drug Report by the United Nations.
Global demand for cocaine, opiates, and cannabis is stagnant or shrinking, [...]

Sounds funny, almost like a joke, but it is not.
After a series of disastrous events, the Romanian teenager Maria Barbu, 17, died electrocuted after her notebook fell into the tub where she bathed while updated her Twitter account.
The authorities in Brasov, a city where the girl lived, believe that the accident happened when Mary tried [...]