“Government planners usually think about forests just as carbon sinks. They often forget forest fires, and how they can become sources of carbon emissions,” said Vijendra Ajnabi, a natural resource management expert with Oxfam, who is based in India’s Chhattisgarh state. Source link

Despite hundreds of millions of dollars in international aid spent, only three former Khmer Rouge have ever been sentenced – Comrade Duch, the regime’s head of state Khieu Samphan and Pol Pot’s second-in-command, Nuon Chea, who died last year after being convicted of genocide. Pol Pot himself died in 1998. […]

A black US army lieutenant has filed a lawsuit against two police officers who pointed their guns at him and pepper-sprayed his face during a traffic stop. Lt Caron Nazario was pulled over while wearing his uniform in December in Windsor, Virginia. A police report says his car was stopped […]

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