Coke and Pepsi stumble in India
When allegations of pesticide contamination were published on the front pages this month in India, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo executives were breezily confident that this was a crisis they could handle.
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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A victory for cleaner air
Americans who live in areas with substandard air won another important round last week in tortured legal battle to force power companies, other industrual polluters and the Bush administration itself
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For poorer countries, WTO talks yield little
Hong Kong As the dust settled here following the World Trade Organization's ministerial meeting, the hype that surrounded the negotiators' modest deal was giving way to a sober realism. Scores of
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Free Flow: Paying pollution costs when executives fly
When HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, flies its executives around the world, it pays for the carbon dioxide emissions of every flight in the form of "offsets," or investments in nonpolluting energy
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Farm cuts could hurt, not help
The protectionist agricultural farm policies of the big, rich countries
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2.5 million reported homesless, many dead in N. Korea floods
A South Korean aid group claimed that recent massive floods in North Korea have left about 54,700 people dead or missing, while some 2.5 million others were homeless. The figures is by far the
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In EU, British hold out for farm reform
Britain's latest proposal for resolving the EU budget dispute was immediately rejected on Wednesday in a critical onslaught by France, Poland and other countries that sets the stage for a bitter
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In EU, British hold out for farm reform
Britain's latest proposal for resolving the EU budget dispute was immediately rejected on Wednesday in a critical onslaught by France, Poland and other countries that sets the stage for a bitter
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Drought menaces New Zealand
New Zealand, which relies on agriculture for half its exports, faces a third drought in seven years in the country's biggest wine and sheep farming areas. The South Island wine region of Marlborough
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Environmentalists warn tourism threatens islands
Environmentalists are angry over Indian plans to convert to convert the Andamans into a holiday tourist spot, arguing the steps could turn the pristine islands into a garbage