Five of the world’s seven species of turtle are found in Kenya – green, hawksbill and olive ridleys nest along the coast, and the loggerheads and leatherbacks migrate through the waters. All five species of marine turtles found in African waters are listed by the IUCN as endangered or critically endangered. The world population is [...]

It is an unseasonably gloomy thought, but nevertheless a true one: all the aspirations, the sacrifice and the triumphs of a momentous year of revolution and upheaval in the Arab world hinge ultimately on events taking place in Syria. The Arab spring is at a crossroads. If Bashar al-Assad’s blood-stained regime falls, and the country [...]

Brazil, caretaker of the world’s largest rain forest, is about to enact broad new regulations that opponents say could loosen restrictions on Amazon deforestation and increase the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The move comes after two years of often-roiling debates and dozens of hearings across the country over how to update a 1965 law that [...]

The mother of four was a casualty of a brutal six-month conflict between the Burmese government and ethnic minority rebels from Kachin, a state in northern Burma bordering China. This is a war that has killed and maimed countless civilians and caused 30,000, probably more, to flee, yet has gone almost entirely unnoticed, as the [...]

It’s not too late to act to prevent a major food crisis in the Sahel region, but it will take an “unprecedented effort” from the international community to do so, according to a group of aid agencies operating in west Africa. Erratic rains in 2011 have produced a poor harvest across much of Niger, Chad, [...]

Africa’s most populous nation, once seen as the regional breakbasket, wants to curb chronic dependence on foreign food by clamping down on rice and wheat imports and introducing a raft of financial incentives ahead of next year’s budget. The aim is to kick the sluggish agriculture sector into life. For more on this story, visit: [...]

The viciousness of their attack took me aback. Yes, I confess, this feminist thought they wouldn’t beat a woman so hard. But I wasn’t just a woman. My body had become Tahrir Square, and it was time for revenge against the revolution that had broken and humiliated Hosni Mubarak’s police. And it continues. We’ve all [...]

Iran has proposed to reopen negotiations about its controversial nuclear programme with the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. The invitation by Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, comes in the wake of new sanctions recently imposed by the UN over Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme. For more on this story, visit: Iran proposes to [...]

As the Palestinian Authority’s at the UN moves forward, the Post looks at what a Palestinian state would look like. For more on this story, visit: Graphic: What would a Palestinian state look like? | News | National Post.

Despite the pending troop withdrawals in Iraq and those in Afghanistan between now and 2014, the United States remains a superpower on a scale not seen since the days of the Caesars. With this in mind, the National Post’s Richard Johnson takes a look at the scale of America’s forces. For more on this story, [...]