Month: April 2013

IMF calls for end to energy subsidies (UpstreamOnline) – A new report from the International Monetary Fund calls for industrialised countries to rein in the subsidies given to for fossil fuel producers and exporters....

Try to imagine being 42 years old and knowing seventy people who have been killed. Imagine being able to write down their names. Or you can just start perusing the list of homicide victims in 2011 in a place like, say, Hampton...

This is a pretty serious idea. I started thinking about it while reading my paper New York Times, which ran a story this morning on page 1 below the fold, while it’s somewhat buried in the online edition, claiming that all...

Climatologists and drought forecasters are now comparing the last few years of severe drought to the Dust Bowl era. And if their predictions are correct, that drought will be worse this year than last, which was about as bad as...