KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — By American standards, the boardwalk at Kandahar Airfield isn't much to write home about.

There's no roller coaster, mirror maze or carousel with unicorns.

Oil supply optimists often say that the application of enhanced oil recovery techniques to existing and future wells will vastly expand oil reserves and oil production. The trouble is these techniques aren't new, and they are already being widely applied. That means current oil reserves and production already reflect any effect they have had.

Interview with the Spanish libertarian militant and veteran of the anti-Franco struggle
Octavio Alberola on the anarchist angle on Cuba, originally published in the Venezuelan
monthly El Libertario in 2004.

The world's net rate of forest loss has slowed
markedly in the last decade, with less logging in the Amazon and China
planting trees on a grand scale.

Two hundred union members occupying the basement of the Pearl Continental Karachi Hotel ended their 25-day sit-in on Saturday night, March 20 when ...

Bolivia is watching its glaciers melt, early casualties of a changing climate.