Members of Brazil's environmental police force IBAMA and the Para state police inspect logs discovered during "Operation Labareda," a raid against illegal logging, near Novo Progresso in the Amazon rain
The U.S. energy crisis goes far beyond California. Bush's new policy will cover summer gasoline, winter heating oil-and prospects that the national economy could be losing
On March 15 a series of explosions racked the world's largest oil rig, 120 kilometres off the coast. On March 20, P36 sank, dragging with it the bodies of nine oil workers. In the end two more
Brazil confronts a dire energy shortage and an abrupt end to a culture of carefree waste : a report.
If nothing else, George W. Bush's energy problem reminds us of one of the great paradoxes of American public opinion. By word, the Americans are ardent environmentalists. A CBS poll found that
The fuel protests of the past two weeks have been largely about taxes. But if it's tough for Europeans to accpet high fuel taxes, it's toughest for Norwegians. Only the Saudis export more oil. Money
Japanese in general are growing uneasy about nuclear power. In a poll released last February, 90 percent of the respondents said they were "anxious" about safety issues. But such concerns have done
Outrage at the gas pump is spilling over into U.S. presidential politics. Vice President Al Gore labeled oil prices a "national crisis" and urged President Clinton to tap the nation's 570 million
The Ebola outbreak brings a disturbing new twist. Scientists are now fairly certain the most recent outbreaks originated somewhere in the rain forests of Central and West Africa. The last major
A controversial new book 'Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon' charges that filmakers and anthropologists in the Amazon caused the slow genocide of the
Famine, war and disease combine to threaten millions in Ethiopia : a
