Armenia /ɑrˈmiːniə/ (Armenian: Հայաստան, transliterated : Hayastan, IPA: [hɑjɑsˈtɑn]), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto...
Antarctica (pronounced /ænˈtɑrktɪkə/) is Earth's southernmost continent, underlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.0 million km2 (5.4 million sq mi), it is...
HK; Today I'm going to talk with Frans de Waal, who is a professor of primate behaviour at Emory University. Thank you so much for your time. First let me ask about why you started...
Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet and BorderJumpers.org.
By Alex Tung - this interview with Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is part of a...
Given that it's vacation season for many of us in the northern hemisphere (you may be taking more photos this time of year if this is your summer); and given that this is baseball's Induction...
By Ronit Ridberg
This is the first of three parts of an interview with Baldemar Velasquez, President and Founder of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. In Part One, Mr. Velasquez describes the biggest challenges and abuses farm...
This week, Green Thing saw the launch of the third report to come from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity research team, at the first ever Business of Biodiversity Symposium. TEEB is a global initiative...
It’s interesting that blogging started off in the San Francisco area because here, there is a long tradition of new forms of writing. I’ve long been fascinated with the literature of the Beatniks -- a...
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