A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit central Myanmar (formerly Burma) Friday (March 28), shaking Mandalay, the country's ...

Researchers from Chiba University and Nagoya University, Japan, have developed a highly accurate land cover map for Siberia, ...

But as Kathleen Schuster reports from our partner, Deutsche Welle, the people of Tuvalu are not yet willing to give up their land. To hear the full story, click the audio player above. The World is a ...

The Secret Service shot a man near the White House on Sunday shortly after midnight after an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement, according to the agency. The encounter happened near ...

Susan Lynch was one of a handful of women working at BART as a train operator in 1973, one year after the system began operating. She began working out of Hayward station as a test driver ...

A land value tax (LVT) is a method of taxing property based solely on the value of the land itself, excluding any buildings or improvements on the property. A land value tax is a more ...

Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli journalist, who collaborated for the film "No Other Land," offered a warning to the world and a message of entangled survival ...

Nuns with the Great Wisdom Buddhist Institute practice the art of Tibetan Buddhist debate in a prayer hall in Brudenell, P.E.I. (Kerry Campbell/CBC) An investigation into Buddhist land holdings in ...

While the decision prevents further clearing, it doesn’t grant Indigenous land rights to the Awyu ... of rainforest — an area the size of Jakarta — in both concessions from further clearing.

Locals are concerned a land transfer proposed by the state government will lock them out of areas important to the community. The Shire of Northampton says the development process is not ...