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Lowering Flags of Convenience for Fish Poachers

New international measures to end fish poaching on the high seas would enforce laws where the poacher calls, not where their ships are registered.

Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution, similar to America’s FBI, isn’t doing its job against all the threats its homeland faces.

Europeans are lagging the United States in using aerial drones for police work – and they don’t really mind.

European experiences offer hints as to whether high seismicity in the U.S. oil patch is related to new gas extraction methods.

Iceland did something right in the credit crisis, perhaps offering lessons both for Greece and Occupy Wall Street protesters

Researchers advance the idea that ecstasy and other controversial drugs could help treat traumatized combat vets.

A thriving transatlantic trade in compressed wood scraps is creating New World timber jobs and meeting Old World clean energy requirements.

As renewable energy sources approach cost parity with traditional sources, phasing out nuclear power might in Germany be economically smart.

Competing solar projects are vying to supply Germany's renewable desires, each one trying to push the other into the shade.

Germany's energy revolution makes a shift to natural gas likely all over Europe.