Leading U.S. panel backs global warming assertion
An influential and controversial paper asserting that recent warming in the Northern Hemisphere was probably unrivaled for 1,000 years has been endorsed, with a few reservations, by a panel convened
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Dam changes the face of Laos's hinterlands
There are few places in Southeast Asia more remote than this forested plateau in southern Laos, but over the decades, history seems to have chosen it as a battleground. Today it resounds with the
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Canary Islands species threatened by soft borders
It rains little on Spain's Canary island. There are no natural rivers, and the air is full of the dry heat of the nearby Sahara. But in a ravine on the island's northern tip, tree limbs drip with
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Ruling on water act signals court's shift
The Supreme Court has ruled that environmental regulators may have gone too far when they applied the Clean Water Act to wetlands, rather than just lakes and rivers, delivering a divided opinion that
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Philip Bowring: Who will replace us?
A long-term crisis faces almost the whole of the industrialized world and parts of the developing world: the collapse of fertility. But remarkably little research has been done into the causes and
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Vast marine sanctuary in Hawaii set for creation
President George W. Bush was preparing to propose the creation of the world's largest marine sanctuary in a chain of small Hawaiian islands and their surrounding waters that are home to coral reefs
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Namibia moving fast on polio vaccines
The southwestern African country of Namibia is rushing to put together a plan to vaccinate all of its estimated two million residents against polio next week, the first country to do so in a decade.
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Chemical insecurity
The fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is drawing near, and the U.S. Congress still has not passed a law to improve chemical plant safety. The Senate was scheduled to hold important
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Heading off a 'coal war'
America and China are not fighting each other for the resource. Instead, they burn it up in their parallel universes and toast the planet like no one else. The United States currently spews out the
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Under the volcano, little sleep
Scientists, who are often at odds with men seem to agree that the danger around Merapi is receding. Subandriyo, head of the Merapi division of Yogyakarta's Volcanology Center, said the alert level