USA Today: Amid fanfare of historic trip, MLB, Cuba aim for common ground

By Jorge L. Ortiz — HAVANA, Cuba – Perhaps buoyed by the goodwill Major League Baseball has engendered in its return to Cuba, Commissioner Rob Manfred is confident a new

NY Post: MLB tries to open Cuba, before another defector puts life at risk

By Joel Sherman — HAVANA – A cockroach had crawled on the table, moving from in front of me toward the commissioner of baseball. After a formal news conference Monday

PNG receiving little finance for forest conservation

Papua New Guinea has been receiving far less finance for forest conservation than most other countries with large tropical forests. That’s the finding from a new report by the NGO,

Greenwire: ‘Broken village’ in La. bayou seeks higher ground

By Abby Kessler, E&E reporter — As the Isle de Jean Charles in southern Louisiana sinks slowly into the Gulf of Mexico, a group of Native Americans who have inhabited