A film on the life and works of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai has been launched in Washington, DC.

The film, produced by Alan Dater and Lisa Merton has so far won eight wards this year and is being screened across the world, courtesy of National Geographic Society.

Top tourism and travel executives from around the world will meet in Tanzania in December to discuss how the tourist sector can support local communities in Africa.

In an effort to address the issues of deforestation in Haiti, which also contributes to climate change, global warming, and the destruction caused by the recent hurricanes, Lambi Fund of Haiti and the Green Belt Movement is partnering to plant 1 million trees over three years.

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Price, was honored Tuesday night by St. John's School of Theology Seminary in Collegeville, Minn.

UNITED NATIONS- The possibility that the International Criminal Court might indict President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan on charges of genocide and war crimes in the coming months prompted an intense tug of war at the United Nations General Assembly that ended Monday.

Professor Maathai's environmental work is the subject of two new children's books, Planting the Trees of Kenya(Claire Nivola) and Wangari's Trees of Peace(Jeanette Winter).

For women, the night was bigger than the Oscars, the Emmys and the Grammys combined. If you combined all those awards with the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, then you might have a sense of what it felt like to attend the 19th Annual Glamour Women of the Year Awards, held Monday night, Nov. 10, at Carnegie Hall, one of New York's architectural splendors.