After a sharp decline in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2020, Minnesota’s emissions rose in 2021 and 2022, according to ...

This recently published EPA report provides a synthesis of existing scientific literature on the effectiveness of riparian buffers to improve water quality through their inherent ability to process ...

In the Philippines, traditional knowledge touches on almost all facets of the economic and social development of a community from agriculture to literature and from customary law to arts and crafts.

This paper is on compliance and dispute settlement provisions in the WTO and MEAs. It is also provided as an input to the MEA Information Sessions.

Payments for environmental services (PES) represent a new, more direct way to promote conservation. They explicitly recognize the need to address difficult trade-offs by bridging the interests of ...

Environmental Working Group's web site [www.ewg.org], which has played a central role in this year's farm bill debate, has been updated with the subsidy payment records for the latest available year - ...

From The Boston Herald via The World Business Council for Sustainabile Development Companies shouldn't feel obligated to "give back" to the community, because they haven't taken anything away, the ...

Cargill Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to sell its North Star Steel unit, including its St. Paul steel mill that employs 430 workers, to Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. of Canada in a deal valued at ...

Fifty years ago, what Alabama landowners called a forest often was land lined with rows of identical pines, planted for profit and clear-cut every three decades. Today, many of those tree farms are ...

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31 (IPS) - Indigenous leaders from the Amazon rain forest want the US government to revoke a patent issued to a US company for a plant used in sacred ceremonies by indigenous people ...

More than 100 million ha of forest lands were managed according to FSC requirements in March 2008. The FSC standards for responsible forest management are widely regarded as the most rigorous social ...

Globalization increases the potential mobility of financial capital, real investments, goods and services, and to a more limited extent, highly skilled labor. As a consequence, mobile economic actors ...