By: John Boonstra on July 01, 2009 Pocketless trousers as a strategy to fight corruption in Nepal (h/t Judah Grunstein). Lay off trashing the moon landings, okay? It was cool to walk on the moon. Caterpillars taking over West Africa are nothing; the latest insectine invasion is of Argentine super ants, who’ve got their eyes (?) set on colonizing the entire world. And…don’t forget the food crisis in Africa.
By: John Boonstra on June 23, 2009 A health problem you might not expect to find in Uganda: obesity. The chairman of the (Nobel Prize-winning) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on why halting global warming is an environmental imperative — and how it can bring other benefits as well. Um, CO2 not a pollutant? “With all due respect, are you kidding me?”
By: Mark Leon Goldberg on May 15, 2009 * Smart Guardian editorial on why Burma needs aid, not sanctions. * A video recorded by slain Guatemalan attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg accuses the Guatemalan president of having a hand in his murder. The U.N. International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala will take up the case. ( Via, The Los Angeles Times.) * The official United Nations Environment Program twitter feed says “UNEP will plant one tree for every twitterer who follows UNEPandYou between now & 5 June, World Environment Day.” Follow them!
