Tinkering with the design of nature and adding some clever accessories inside tiny little organisms might not be the brightest idea if you watched those countless Hollywood flicks where genetic engineering (eccentric mad-scientist styled stuff) goes horribly wrong.
But then this is real life and with the very real and growing demand for cleaner and more [...]

If UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon were a puppet of the West, particularly of the US, as he is often criticized to be, he would ‘have supported the International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect while on the hustings for the UN’s top job, nor would he have pushed so hard on climate change [...]

There are quite a few conflict zones in the world today where everyday civilians are being caught in the crossfire, their villages are devastated due to bombing and homes are reduced to rubble. There is no normalcy and hence no regular source of livelihood and income. People live in rehabilitation and refugee camps. More than [...]

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: [...]

The dumping of nuclear waste in the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea that surround the Italian Peninsula and its islands has been going on for the past 20 years, little did most people know. The destructive phenomenon is now coming to light, and has been putting the whole world under environmental and health alert. [...]

Dubai, born of the dream to create a Middle Eastern Shangri-la, was ‘built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery.’ Today, there are half-finished buildings and new establishments that look plush and posh but with ceilings that leak rainwater and tiles falling off. Some of the infrastructure [...]

The Al-Qaeda he/she threatened to avenge the death of Muslims Uigures in the week passed in the area autonomous Chinese of Xinjiang, attacking citizens and Chinese interests in Algeria and other areas of Africa, according to a report of the company of analysis of safety and intelligence Stirling Assynt.
The British company bases its information on [...]

Euphrates is drying. Strangled by the politics of the neighbors’ from Iraq water, Turkey and Syria; two years of drought and years of inadequate use for Iraq and their farmers, the river is significantly smaller of the than there are just few years. Some authorities fear that soon can be the half than it was.
The [...]

Who want an antidote to the photographs of police beat demonstrators and girls dying in the streets of the Iranian capital have to go through the streets of the Moroccan capital. You can see protesters, but they are not targets of attacks.
Girls can be seen on the street, but they are not targets of snipers. [...]

The battle and battle ground has finally shifted officially but the war seems to be far from over. As American troops began withdrawing from cities of Iraq one cannot stop wondering whether this is indeed the beginning of the end of a war that America had declared against terrorism.
The end however is nowhere in sight [...]