OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report. "Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's ...

On October 16, the United Nations will celebrate Freshwater Day in order to highlight the important role water plays in our lives. From the faucet, the shower, through the dishwasher, the clothes ...

Over the last few years, several new trade-related initiatives designed to slow deforestation associated with the trade of ...

This article identifies the environmental impacts of marine fish-farming pollution and suggests methods of reduction with view to making marine fish culture a sustainable development ...

Agricultural commodity exports are driving deforestation around the world, spurred by consumer demand and directed by ...

MANILA - The Philippine government plans by July 1, 2003, to make firms notify it of any imported genetically modified organisms (GMOs), according to draft documents obtained by reporters. Based on ...

Mexico is facing a growing mountain of hazardous waste, despite an environmental accord with the US and a continental trade deal that were supposed to discourage further environmental degradation. The ...

This paper presents the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the Malaysian economy with specific attention to its environmental implications, and regulatory measures to shield harmful effects.

A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped a blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered along a hiking trail not far from President Franklin D.

When more than 800 business experts in 15 emerging-market countries were asked recently to identify the most flagrant bribe-payers in richer nations seeking contracts, Russian and Chinese companies ...

SANTA ROSA, California, June 18, 2008 (ENS) - A California Superior Court judge has invited the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board to exercise its authority to regulate water quality to ...

Negotiators from 12 government members (“Parties”) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet ...