Brazil lifts ban on gene-altered soy crops
Farmers in Brazil, the world's No.2 producer of soybeans, have received approval to plant genetically modified seeds this season after the country's vice president said he would lift a ban on
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Strong earthquake rattles north Japan
A powerful earthquake shook northern Japan causing power failures, setting fire to an oil refinery and derailing a train. More than 400 people were injured, most of them by falling objects in their
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New study questions a hormone treatment
Hormone replacement therapy should no longer be prescribed solely to prevent or treat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, researchers said in a study published disputing the policy of the Food
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Confronting AIDS in South Africa
A generation ago, Americas protested and held divestment rallies in a snowballing movement against the injustices of South African apartheid. The South African president, Thabo Mbeki, for years
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Emission rights are sold at new Chicago market
The Chicago Climate Exchange, a start-up hoping to create a market for member companies and governments to trade rights to emit gases associated with global warming, has gotten off to an ambiguous
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Why lions and tigers hate captivity
Polar bears, lions, tigers cheetahs and other wide-ranging carnivores do so poorly in captivity that zoos should either drastically improve their conditions or stop keeping them altogether,
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Rescuing the imperiled seas
The oceans are in big trouble. Historically slow to exhibit change, oceans are suffering caught most people, even in this scientific age, unaware. Fish stocks are being depleted at an alarming rate.
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Pollution gets a shrug as production booms
A vast and remote expanse of green in the heart of Siberia is part of the largest wetland on earth. It produces oxygen at a rate rivaled only by the Amazon. It contains ancient forests, endangered
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China finds 15% to 20% of its species are endagered
About 15 percent to 20 percent of animal and plant species in China are in danger of extinction, higher than the worldwide proportion of 10 percent to 15 percent, according to reports from
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Now its shrimp wars
The nasty catfish war with Vietnam has tempted American shrimpers to engage in some trade mischief of their own. Using spurious allegations of unfair trade practices, American catfish farmers have