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The spoon-billed sandpiper , seen here in Phetchaburi, Thailand, could be extinct within a decade.

East Germany's Ministry for State Security, also known as the Stasi, was a major challenge during my three-year stint as an attache at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn during the 1960s.

United Nations Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres speaks during a press conference on November 30, 2012, on the fifth day of the two weeks United Nations 18th Climate Change Conference in Doha.

Mrs. Christine Kirkland Duke, 87, of Adel, passed away Friday May 10, 2013 at Cook Senior Living Center in Adel.

Carbon dioxide emissions are soaking into Arctic waters and affecting the chemistry of the ocean, a new report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program shows.

"That's a really difficult question," says Gorsch-Nies. "Men would probably say, 'Ein Bier, bitte'," which means "a beer, please," but in general maybe the question is "Sprechen Sie Englisch?" "Do you speak English?" He volunteers to teach weekly Enjoy German classes because he says he received support from his parents, teachers, friends and ... (more)

This value in Africa and Latin America is more than double that in Europe and more than 30 times that in North America, which should influence how policymakers prioritise dryland conservation, according to a study, presented at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification's 2nd Scientific Conference last week .

Carbon-market supporters from China to California will push for emissions trading even as they prepare for the end of the United Nations Kyoto Protocol in seven years, Europe's top climate negotiator said.

A Deutsche Telekom said Wednesday it stopped losing U.S. customers in the first quarter after it dropped conventional two-year contracts, the German company said Wednesday.

This past Friday the latest round of global climate talks ended at the UN's climate headquarters in Bonn, Germany.

Floods devastated the Mauritian capital, Port-Louis, on Mar. 30 but locals can expect the island to be affected by more floods, landslides and cyclones in the coming years because of climate change.

Labourers walk on a dried-up lake on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura, April 23, 2013.

Soldiers had to appear hardened; they were, after all, doing battle against the Kurdish PKK.

From 20-22 March, about 250 people, largely from civil society organizations and another third from other stakeholders such as the United Nations , gathered in Bonn, Germany for an international conference on Advancing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda .

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres briefs press in Bonn, Germany.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends the 10th annual international Afghanistan conference on December 5, 2011 in Bonn, Germany.

Global warming was to blame for super storms that killed hundreds of people last year, and record levels of ice thaw in the Arctic, the United Nations has warned.

New, more flexible ways to fight climate change were sketched out on Friday at the end of a week of talks between 160 nations, but there was no breakthrough in bridging a deep divide between China and the United States.

The Threshold Repertory Theatre is a tricky little theater. When I walked into the studio last month to see The Mousetrap , the stage felt cramped, tight, filled with stuff everywhere.

The approach, being discussed this week at 160-nation talks in Bonn, Germany, would mean abandoning the blueprint of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which set central goals for industrialized countries to cut emissions by 2012 and then let each work out national implementation.