Sri Lanka rebels offer to lift water blockade
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said that they were ready to lift a blockade on water supplies to government-controlled areas and that a 2002 cease-fire still held, but they warned that further
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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On the road in India, bringing deadly cargo
India has at least 5.1 million people living with HIV, the second highest number in the world, after South Africa. It is at a critical stage: It can either prevent the further spread of infection or
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EU proposes to link car taxes to pollution
European Union lawmakers have called for overhauling taxes on cars taxes in the EU and adopting a plan to focus levies on the amount of pollution cars emit. The plan, which would need backing from EU
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Factoring in China's gross domestic pollution
China already has six of the world's 10 most polluted cities, according to the World Bank, which estimates that environmental damage and health problems cost more than $54 billion a year. That
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Netherlands returns some of itself to the waters
In what amounts to a sea change for a country that is essentially built on reclaimed land, the Netherlands is quietly surrending some of its hard-won former seabed, river bottoms and swamp back to
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Climate has changed for global warming talks
In December 1997, representatives of most of the world's nations met in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiate a binding agreement to cut emissions of "greenhouse" gases. They succeeded. The Kyoto Protocol was
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European rocket lands on moon with a bang
The first European spacecraft sent to the moon ended its three-year mission Sunday with a planned crash on the lunar surface, hitting its target at two kilometers a second, which translates to 7,200
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California plan to lower emissions splits industry
After becoming cheif executive of PG&E last year, Peter Darbee met with a large number of leading climate scientists, he said, to make up his own mind about global warming. As a result of his
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In California, a breakthrough
California, long a lader on environmental issues, has done it again, approving a pathbreaking bill that would impose America's broadest and most stringent controls on emissions of carbon dioxide the
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U.K. and California: Environmental pals
Britain and California planned to agree to evaluate the use of market-based systems to reduce greenhouse gases, which are said to be responsible for global warming, a spokesman for the British