Pollution fight splits island village
In Buyat Bay beach, Indonesia, the pollution is caused from nearby gold mine and whether the government should relocate the residents has pitted neighbor against neighbor as that intimate suffering
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Discovering transgenic corn, Mexicans suspicious of U.S.
This ancient Zapotec Indian town of whitewashed adobe houses and tiled roofs perched on a verdant slope of the western Sierra Madre could not be farther from the American laboratories where
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Success with malaria
In 1998, the Australia-based mining company BHP Billiton began building a huge aluminum smelter outside Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. The company knew that malaria plagued the region. It gave
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Geo-greening by example
How will future historians explain it? How will they possibly explain why President George W. Bush decided to ignore the energy crisis staring Americans in the face and chose instead to spend all his
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Hot air and global warming
Every time the world calls for action on climate change, the United States emits more White House gases. The latest puff came from James Connaughton, the director of environmental quality, during
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Marburg virus blamed for 95 deaths in Angola
Health officials have urged travelers to avoid Uige Province in northern Angola, after the World Health Organization identified the Marburg virus as the source of an epidemic that has killed at least
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Americans unaware of modified foods
Most Americans are not aware that they have probably been eating unlabeled genetically modified foods for nearly a decade, according to a survey by the Rutgers Food Policy Institute. Fewer than
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Indian drug makers face new arena
Makers of generic drugs in India are facing an uncertain new playing field after the approval of a bill that would bring India into line with international patent law. The bill, which requires only
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Marburg virus blamed for 95 deaths in Angola
Health officials have urged travelers to avoid Uige Province in northern Angola, after the World Health Organization identified the Marburg virus as the source of an epidemic that has killed at least
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Americans unaware of modified foods
Most Americans are not aware that they have probably been eating unlabeled genetically modified foods for nearly a decade, according to a survey by the Rutgers Food Policy Institute. Fewer than half