Published on Friday, November 28, 2008 by OneWorld.net by Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS – Calls for greater participation of the world’s indigenous leaders are on the rise as another round of talks on global climate change opens in the Polish city of Poznan next week. In a study released last… Continue reading

Nov 29, 5:19 AM EST Wildlife group seeks help from Texas oil tycoon’s wife to ease grazing on public lands By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Conservationists are looking to the wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens to help push for federal reforms that they say… Continue reading

Access to water must be high on climate agenda: group Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:02am EST By Svetlana Kovalyova MILAN (Reuters) – Access to water is a basic human right and should be high on the agenda of climate change talks in Poland next week, the head of an Italian… Continue reading

Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:04pm EST By Raymond Colitt BRASILIA (Reuters) – Destruction of the Amazon forest in Brazil accelerated for the first time in four years, the government said on Friday, as high commodity prices tempted farmers and ranchers to slash more trees. Satellite images showed nearly 4,633 square… Continue reading