Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Price, was honored Tuesday night by St. John's School of Theology Seminary in Collegeville, Minn.

UNITED NATIONS- The possibility that the International Criminal Court might indict President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan on charges of genocide and war crimes in the coming months prompted an intense tug of war at the United Nations General Assembly that ended Monday.

Professor Maathai's environmental work is the subject of two new children's books, Planting the Trees of Kenya(Claire Nivola) and Wangari's Trees of Peace(Jeanette Winter).

A judge in Kenya has ordered that a biofuels project be suspended after environmental and community groups took the government to court.

Conserving the Congo forest, and indeed all of our forests in Africa, as well as accelerating forestation efforts, is vital to our survival on a continent where the Sahara Desert is expanding to the North and the Kalahari Desert is expanding to the Southwest.

NEW YORK – Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Wangari Maathai will tour the East Coast of the United States from September 22 to October 8, 2008. The tour will take her from the country’s largest metropolis to the core of America’s heartland.

Canadian pioneers in the climate change
counter-offensive will join colleagues from around North America in New York
City today and tomorrow to help identify how to mitigate carbon emissions in developing countries.

We must keep up the pressure on the world’s superpowers to ‘do the right thing’ in Darfur and Burma—and create the conditions for long-lasting peace and democracy.