Carbon offsets are fueling land grabs in Africa.

Attacking the Pakistani Taliban provides an opportunity to attack the disease they protect: polio.

Pennsylvania told state health officials not to return phone calls from people who had health problems due to fracking.

Australia gives some asylum seekers a cursory screening and sends them back.

It does not matter a priori whether this is done on land or on a ship, but doing so on ship facilitates "accidental" errors which, at a systematic level, are not accidents.

While the government refuses to admit this, it effectively admits it by trying to pretend that Sri Lanka does not torture dissidents.

Australia's plans show that its goal is to keep refugees out no matter what the situation.

One of the Peruvian soldiers convicted of killing journalist Hugo Bustios says that Peru's current interior minister Urresti ordered the killing.