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Esri Pledges Support for Spatial Planning of 1 Million Sq. Km. Marine Park in Cook Islands
Submitted by staff on Sun, 12/23/2012 - 01:00
International Environmental Projects
Submitted by staff on Fri, 05/25/2012 - 00:00
Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
Submitted by Earth News on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 11:22Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.

Former Israeli PM: Jerusalem must be partitioned
Submitted by Earth News on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 10:43Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors irreparably divided.

Three charged in carjacking of pastor Marvin Winans
Submitted by Earth News on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 10:39A Michigan prosecutor has charged three young men in the assault and carjacking of popular Detroit pastor and gospel singing icon Marvin Winans.

For NY farmers, fracking could mean salvation -- or ruin
Submitted by Earth News on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 10:33When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept ...

NATO chief insists no rush to exits in Afghanistan
Submitted by Earth News on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 10:07The United States and NATO leaders insist the Afghanistan fighting coalition will remain whole despite France's plans to yank combat troops out early, but leaders wary of plummeting public support for the war are using an alliance summit Sunday to show they want to move quickly away from the front li Read more >>

Two more activists hit with charges related to NATO summit
Submitted by Earth News on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 09:57Prosecutors said Sunday they have charged two more people as part their investigation into activists who planned to take part in demonstrations at the two-day NATO summit.

Protesters stream into Chicago park for NATO march
Submitted by Earth News on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 09:57A diverse crowd of protesters began streaming into a downtown Chicago park Sunday for one of the city's largest demonstrations in years — a march to the lakeside convention center hosting a historic NATO summit.

Tropical Storm Alberto weakens off Carolina coast
Submitted by Earth News on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 09:48Tropical Storm Alberto weakened slightly off the South Carolina coast on Sunday, canceling dolphin cruises, producing showers along the coast and serving as a reminder that the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is just around the corner.


