International

Key resources of studies and statistics for human angles on environmental stories.

Disasters create hundreds of thousands of environmental refugees in U.S and the World.

E-refugees grow in numbers, reflect threats to safety, security.

Although the evidence is not yet ironclad, two recent reports support fears that populations of hundreds of bird species strongly dependent on water bodies are declining in much of the world.

With climate change continuing to grow in news prominence, it'll be helpful to have access to the latest developments.

Eco-friendly wine isn't just about what's in the bottle. It also IS the bottle — or, increasingly the box — plus the cork (or, increasingly screwtop), and more.

In the past year or so, all things "green" have become a hot fad. Sorting through green claims remains a difficult task.

The final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's "Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change" is expected to be released Nov. 16, 2007, during a Nov. 12-17 gathering in Valencia, Spain.

The Valencia science meeting is just a prologue to a meeting of diplomats from some 180 countries in Bali, Indonesia, to hammer out a new international agreement to control climate change. The current Kyoto Protocol, which was signed in 1997 and took effect in 2005, expires in 2012.