QUITO, 15 August 2013 (Associated Press) – Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has abandoned a unique and ambitious plan to persuade rich countries to pay his country not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon rainforest preserve. Environmentalists had hailed...
By THOMAS HUNTERMarch 31, 2010 Hot and wet. That's how the record books will remember Melbourne's unseasonal March, the city's hottest month in 36 years and its wettest in almost a decade, say meteorologists. Weatherzone.com.au's Samuel Terry said the wet...
By Tim McGirk Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 …Depending on your point of view, the World is either the apex of mankind's ingenuity or a cautionary tale about the feverish excesses of Dubai's 21st century boom. Each island was selling for...
