Birds back in Europe without flu
The flocks of migratory birds that winged their way south to Africa last autumn and then back over Europe in recent weeks did not carry the H5N1 bird flu virus or spread it during their annual
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Japan to widen scrutiny of chemicals in food
Responding to growing consumer interest in food safety, Japan said it would tighten its control over agrochemical residues in farm products this month and may reject more food cargoes from abroad
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More Americans join pool of 'near poor'
Americans on the lower rungs of the economic ladder have always been exposed to sudden ruin. But in recent years, with the soaring costs of housing and medical care and a decline in low- end wages
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The end of Borneo's tropical forests?
The Indonesian government recently signed a deal with China that would rip into some of the last untouched tropical forests here on Borneo, where dozens of new species have been found in recent years
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Seeds of competition sown for Monsanto
A joint venture that has been announced by DuPont and the Swiss company Syngenta may present a challenge to Monsanto's dominance of the genetically modified seed business, even though both partners
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In booming Shanghai, garbage turns into profit
The Australian, who works for a French company that is helping to manage this city's garbage, says his difficult job is made all the harder - on some days he would say impossible - by the cruel fact
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Preparing America for nature's attack
In the United States, environmentalists and their opponents have spent far too much time debating whether global warming is caused by humans, and whether the transition to cleaner energy sources will
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Fuji plans to sell diesel vehicles in Europe next year
Fuji Heavy Industries has said it plans to sell its first diesel- powered vehicles in Europe by as early as the end of 2007, to raise sales in the region by 61 percent in five years. Fuji Heavy will
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Selling America's forests
It's rarely a good idea to sell off assets to pay normal operating expenses. It's an even worse idea when the assets are chunks of national forest. But that's exactly what the Bush administration
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A rare and stubborn pestilence
Ogi is one of the last areas of Nigeria infested with Guinea worm, a plague so ancient that it is found in Egyptian mummies and is thought to be the "fiery serpent" described in the Old Testament as