Full Coverage: North America

30.08.2007 WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (OneWorld) - One of the most favorable yet systematically overlooked characteristics of solar, wind, biomass, and other types of organic energy is their universality.

30.08.2007 Since 1998 over 2,500 migrants died while trying to cross the seemingly infinite desert along the U.S.-Mexico border. A woman that traveled to the region with a group dedicated to ending this humanitarian crisis recalls the stories of the migrants whose lives she helped save.

30.08.2007 The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have voted to reauthorize a very successful program that provides health coverage to millions of low-income children. Now some are falsely claiming the bill will allow undocumented immigrants access to public health insurance, says the Center for American Progress.

30.08.2007 An Indian origin scientist at Purdue University has demonstrated a new technology to dramatically improve computer chip cooling.
The technology uses tiny "ionic wind engines" to increase the "heat-transfer coefficient," or the cooling rate, in chips by as much as 250 percent.

29.08.2007 NEW YORK, Aug 29 (OneWorld) - The White House is coming under increasing pressure from a number of Congressional leaders and rights watchdog groups to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales with someone who can restore faith in the U.S. justice system.

29.08.2007 Algeria and the United States have ratified a second agreement which is extending over the next five years, to cooperate in science and technology.

29.08.2007 Maailman suurimpiin kehitysapujärjestöihin kuuluva Care International on kieltäytynyt välittämästä Yhdysvaltain valtion sille tarjoamaa 34 miljoonan euron ruoka-apua kehitysmaihin.

28.08.2007 NEW YORK, Aug 28 (OneWorld) - Thousands of protesters are expected to converge on New Orleans Wednesday to raise awareness about what they believe to be the Bush administration's failure to help Americans who lost everything in the wake of a ferocious storm that hit the United States' Gulf Coast some two years ago.

28.08.2007 An international aid organization is responding to "unyielding" rainfall that has wrought widespread havoc in North Korea since the beginning of August. Even before the disaster, the majority of North Koreans were in dire need of humanitarian aid to alleviate severe hunger and poverty.

28.08.2007 Yhdysvalloissa julkisen sektorin hankintoja tehdään usein tehtaista, joiden työntekijät eivät ole järjestäytyneet ammatillisesti, muistuttaa SweatFree Communities -järjestö. Se pyrkii vaikuttamaan siihen, minkälaisia hankintoja Yhdysvaltojen kaupungit ja osavaltiot tekevät julkisilla varoillaan.

28.08.2007 "History will remember Gonzales as the man who never said no to torture and detention policies that violated U.S. and international law," a rights watchdog said Monday after the U.S. Attorney General's resignation became public.
From: Human Rights Watch

26.08.2007 His aides are jumping ship, his inner circle is torn apart by feuds and his orders are being ignored. Bush has 17 months left in the White House, but he is now a rudderless leader. Andrew Stephen looks at a waning presidency.
From: New Statesman

24.08.2007 As the U.S. environmental agency reviews pesticides for re-registration, an anti-pesticide advocacy group is leading a campaign to demand the highest safety precautions for fumigant pesticides, which can cause birth defects, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and acute poisonings.

24.08.2007 NOKIA says India has become one of the largest markets and overtook the United States in the second quarter to become its second-biggest market by sales after China.

23.08.2007 A U.S.-based humanitarian group has turned down $45 million a year of federal money to provide food aid abroad, maintaining that U.S. purchasing requirements may hurt some of the very people the food aims to help.

23.08.2007 In 1994 the signatories to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) welcomed the convention as a means to help Mexican living standards reach those in the United States and Canada. But the last 13 years have been rather unfavorable for Mexicans.

23.08.2007 Taking a new and exciting approach to activism, DC-based women for peace are inviting others to stay in their organization’s house and partake in their daily advocacy activities on Capitol Hill.

22.08.2007 NEW YORK, Aug 21 (OneWorld) - An American scholar jailed in Iran for over three months has been released, following weeks of protests by international human rights groups.

21.08.2007 The U.S., Mexican, and Canadian heads-of-state are convening this week to discuss "NAFTA plus"; rights advocates are expressing serious concerns that the meeting will not generate "democratic, locally controlled, and earth-friendly policies."

20.08.2007 SAINT LOUIS, Aug 20 (OneWorld) - Members of a leading Iraq war veterans' organization voted this weekend to launch a campaign encouraging U.S. troops to refuse to fight.