China tries to hold back floodwaters in Hunan
China began a massive mobilization of soldiers and civilians to combat surging floodwaters that have driven more than 60000 people from their homes. More than a million people, including 15000 troops
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Destruction in Amazon persists
By decree, the official burning season in the Amazon is supposed to be severely limited in scope and not to start until Sept 15. Yet the skies south of here are already thick with smoke as big
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Save the whales? Take another look
Whale-watching trips off Massachusetts are said to have begun only in 1975, with a pod of elementary school kids taking a boat from Provincetown, but now whale-watching is a $100 million industry in
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Sustaining the planet
With the American president a conspicuous exception, leaders from nearly 100 nations begin assembling this week in Johannesburg to address the future of life on this planet. At the heart of the
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Asia is running out of water
When the annual monsoon season arrived some two months later than usual in parts of India this year, the delay exacerbated drought, hardship, and fears of famine. It is also underlined a looming
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Protesters gather at UN summit
As police officers and protesters drew up battles lines, tens of thousands of official delegates, environmentalists, businessmen, development experts and others flocked to Johannesburg to attend the
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Global talks on ecology open with a warning
The UN summit conference on sustainable development opened under what President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa called a "dark shadow" of poverty, underdevelopment and inequality along with a worsening
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Panel of judges seeks stricter enforcement of environment laws
One hundred and thirty chief justices and senior judges called for better enforcement of environmental laws to stop governments from backsliding on their treaty promises to protect the earth's
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Chinese activists take to the courts
In the three years since he set up an environmental hotline, Wang Canfa has heard thousands of heartbreaking horror stories from people who have seen their health or livelihoods imperiled by
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Is climate change aiding spread of disease?
As floods rage in Central Europe and China and as drought plagues Africa and North America, it is getting harder to dismiss the scientists who claim that weather is becoming not only warmer but more