Banks Put a Price on Earth’s Life Support

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network Aug 30, 2013 A group of large banks plans to withhold credit from companies that fail to attach financial value to clean water, forest cover and other natural resources they exploit. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Greek Unions Hold Strike Against Austerity Policies

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 21, 2013 Greeks are resisting a combination of government spending cuts and tax hikes -- which some believe will result in an unemployment rate of 30 percent -- imposed by international bailout creditors. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Climate Action ‘Could Halve Energy Firms’ Worth’

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Feb 2, 2013 Oil and gas multinationals could lose up to 60 percent of their market value if the world cuts its carbon emissions to limit climate change, according to the world’s second-largest bank. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Trillions Needed to ‘Green’ the Global Economy

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 24, 2013 An alliance led by former Mexican President Felipe Calderon made a business case for the curbing of global warming to leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, saying an unprecedented $14 trillion overhaul would be needed to ensure long-term growth that didn’t wreck the environment. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Stand Still for the Apocalypse

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 26, 2012 Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s inhabitants, according to a report commissioned by the World Bank.Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures or prepare for global collapse, according to a report commissioned by the World Bank. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The World Bank’s Dire Report and Warning on Climate Change

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Nov 19, 2012 The entire planet will be hurt by climate change, but a bleak new report says some of the poorest countries will feel its effects the most. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Hollande Urges Germany to Reconsider Crisis Response

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 17, 2012 On the eve of a eurozone summit that will consider a unified continental budget, French President Francois Hollande said that his half of the Paris-Berlin crisis team will insist on an easing of German leader Angela Merkel's hard push for "austerity and the surrender of national powers to tighten fiscal discipline,” The Guardian reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. to Throw More Money at Central America’s Drug War

Staff / Truthdig Jun 25, 2011 At a regional conference this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged almost $300 million to the governments of Central America during 2011 to aid in their efforts to oppose cartels and others involved in the region's violent, illegal drug trade. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Colleges Get In on African Land Grabs

Staff / Truthdig Jun 9, 2011 American universities are reportedly using endowment funds to buy and lease vast tracts of African farmland, often for piddling prices, in deals that will reward foreign investors handsomely while separating tens of thousands from their homes and farms and providing little or none of the economic benefits promised them, California researchers say. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

World Bank President Sounds a Warning

Staff / Truthdig Apr 18, 2011 With rising food prices and soaring unemployment wreaking havoc across the developing world, World Bank President Robert Zoellick has some dreary news, declaring that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Soaring Food Prices Drive Millions Into Poverty

Staff / Truthdig Apr 15, 2011 Food prices shot up 36 percent in the last year, according to the World Bank, adding 44 million people to the ranks of the impoverished. For people who spend most of their money on food, it's devastating when the price of maize, to take one example, goes up 74 percent as it did this year. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Japan Death Toll Estimate Rises Past 18,000

Staff / Truthdig Mar 22, 2011 Other international emergencies have clearly occurred in the 10 days since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, but the crisis hasn't ended in one country just because the news cameras have roamed elsewhere in the meantime. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )