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Aside from its impact on sea levels, weather and the economy, researchers say climate change is also an urgent public health concern, a matter that has been largely left out of the global climate conversation until recently. [More]

Muni bonds used to be the boring, predictable part of your investment portfolio. Not anymore. In January 2011, Greek—I mean, Illinois—politicians had a problem.

If you don't have empathy for the loan officer sitting across from you, you won't understand how to get the funding you need. Empathy is an essential characteristic of a successful business owner. In all aspects of business development—whether is customer relations, labor management, or seeking a strategic new business partnership—assuming the viewpoint of the person across from you is an invaluable practice

By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - The world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain global warming, scientists warned on Monday. Scientific estimates differ but the world's temperature looks set to rise by six degrees Celsius by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are allowed to rise uncontrollably. As emissions grow, scientists say the world is close to reaching thresholds beyond which the effects on the global climate will be irreversible, such as the melting of polar ice sheets and loss of rainforests

The most ambitious net censorship project since China's Great Firewall is no more: Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology has indicated that they are canceling plans for a 50 million+ URL net filtering regime.

The most ambitious net censorship project since China's Great Firewall is no more: Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology has indicated that they are canceling plans for a 50 million+ URL net filtering regime. Earlier this week, the Pakistani government announced that they were canceling plans to build a national Internet filter similar to China's “Great Firewall.” The massive firewall would have blocked up to 50 million URLs and, if completed, would have been one of the largest online censorship projects in history

By Tim Hepher and Harry Suhartono SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global airlines called on Sunday for a U.N.-brokered deal to prevent a row over aviation emissions between China and the European Union spilling into a damaging trade war. [More]

I am a lousy mentee. It’s a funny admission to make as someone who makes her living as professional mentor. Sure, I train my clients on how best to leverage my expertise

It's not good news: The U.S. will become less competitive in the next three years, (no) thanks to a broken tax code and an inefficient political system. The U.S.

Next year's economy will be hostage to the scary Euro crisis and towering debts at home.

Since 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has given out $12B; Economic woes cause grants to cease

Since 2002, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has given out $12B; Economic woes cause new grants to cease

Seven million people in 115 countries are participating in Global Entrepreneurship Week competitions, awards, and other idea-generating activities as you read this. In honor of the third annual Global Entrepreneurship Week, BizBuySell, an online marketplace of businesses for sale, tells the entrepreneurship story from Canada to Colombia with statistics and other fun facts. BizBuySell, a marketplace of businesses for sale, offers about 45,000 U.S.

Research on the Alcator C-Mod experiment at MIT has made an unexpected connection between two seemingly unrelated but important phenomena observed in tokamak plasmas: spontaneous plasma rotation and the global energy confinement of the plasma.

Despite a string of funding challenges in the past year, the picture is not bleak for the carbon capture and sequestration industry. That message is in a new report being released this morning from the Global CCS Institute, an Australia-based organization that studies the industry