Full Coverage: United States Minor Outlying Islands

30.05.2008 Projects in Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, Tanzania and Uganda are named as finalists in the annual Ashden Awards for green energy.

28.06.2007 With close to 9 million Poles in the United States, it would seem a natural for young Poles to come here looking for work, but for various reasons, they are saying "Who needs America?"

05.08.2004

Rising waters in Bangladesh © Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri/www.alertnet.org

U.S.-based relief agencies are setting up camps, distributing food and medical supplies to survivors of the monsoon floods in have Asia.

21.11.2001 Some of the worst sweatshops can be found on the island of Saipan, a U.S. territory. A new film, "Behind the Labels," reveals conditions of workers making Gap, J. Crew and other clothing.

09.08.2000 Green activists and villagers from Saipan are accusing the United States of "environmental crimes" after a report by the local justice chief found unsafe levels of toxins near a disused US army base on the Pacific island.

04.05.1999 A US campaign to investigate labour conditions on the island of Saipan - where The Gap company operates - is gathering momentum.