Bloomberg For all the conveniences that cities have to offer — from shorter commutes to neighborhood farmers markets — many are failing to meet the challenges of sustainable development. North America’s largest cities fare poorly, with not a single one in the Top 20 of the second annual Sustainable Cities Index published by Arcadis, an Amsterdam-based global engineering and …

  Jakarta / AFP Indonesia will in November become the first country in the world to export wood products to the European Union meeting new environmental standards in a move aimed at bolstering transparency and curbing illicit logging. Officials from the European Union and Indonesian unveiled measures on Thursday to ensure timber exports to the trade bloc, valued at roughly …

    Kuala Lumpur / AFP A piece of aircraft wreckage found in June off Tanzania has been confirmed as coming from the doomed airliner MH370, Malaysia said on Thursday. The debris, found on Pemba Island off the Tanzanian coast, is the latest piece of wreckage to be linked to the Malaysia Airlines jet, whose disappearance remains a mystery. Malaysia’s …