WHO tobacco pact faces opposition
The World Health Organisation has adopted a final text of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, but many major countries, including the United States and Germany, said they would not adopt the
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Smoking opponents draw unlikely allies : tobacco farmers
The tobacco patches that cover the hilltops near are dusted with snow, their sheds locked up till the spring thaw. But what is occupying farmers across Kentucky, the Carolinas and the rest of tobacco
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With cancer, age matters
When compared with adults, children younger than 2 face a tenfold risk of developing cancer if they are exposed to some substances, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says in a new report
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Why poor farmers in Mexico go hungry
Why poor farmers in Mexico go hungry Macario Hernandez's grandfather grew corn in the hills of Puebla, Mexico. His father does the same. Herandez growscorn, too, but not for much longer. Around his
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When a tanker's in trouble, where can it go? Nowhere
With oil from the sunken tanker Prestige still polluting the beaches of Spain and France nearly four months after the vessel foundered, governments are again considering the question of providing
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Military again seeks environmental waivers
The US Defense Department has asked for broad exemptions from environmental regulations in an expanded version of a bill that was defeated in the Senate last year. The military is asking for
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Indian elephants endangered
At least 27 elephants have died in the last year
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Fix the trade courts
Since courts in many poor countries lack independences, nearly all trade agr eements are monitored by separate tribunals housed in the World Bank and United Nations, where companies have confidence
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Aspirin is found to reduce risk of colon and rectal cancer
For the first time, researchers have shown in the most rigorous kind of studies that they can reduce the risk of developing colon and rectal polyps, the precursors of almost all colon cancer, with
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Iraq to list stocks of toxic arms
The United Nations said that Iraq would submit a new report on VX nerve gas and anthrax stocks in a week. The report would be part of an apparent drive to avert a possible U.S. invasion. Though