This story was originally published by the Guardian and The Correspondent and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The oil giant Shell issued a stark warning of the ...

The chairman and chief executive officer of Air Products and Chemicals Inc. yesterday said he expects continued international expansion this year to help push the company past 1990’s record levels. In ...

It was the sort of juxtaposition that gives scowl marks to editors, that leaves business executives shaking their heads. Here was a blue-ribbon report by a National Academy of Sciences panel, wending ...

Global and international stock mutual funds have mushroomed from 23 funds to 168 in a decade, based on a philosophy of investment diversification. The recent visit by President Bush to Asia ...

This is serious stuff, really. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted $210,000 to three Washington State University researchers so they may conduct a three-year study of cows belching.

Leningrad. — Imagine the United States breaking apart along ethnic and racial fault lines that were territorial. Suppose most of the Irish in our country had always lived in one state, say ...

Oil futures plunged to a four-year low Monday, on track for the biggest one-day drop since 1991 as OPEC and Russia appear headed for an all-out price war — shaking a market already reeling from the ...

Window on Eurasia writes about the reactions to the 18th anniversary of the August 1991 coup in Russia. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to ...