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February 20, 2013, 7:29 am Europe’s Rift on Overfishing and Subsidies By DAVID JOLLY Laura Leon for The International Herald Tribune Government inspectors, left, check out a fishing vessel off the Spanish port of Cádiz. Two weeks ago, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to re...
Getty Images Protesters outside a federal court building in New Orleans on Monday, the first day of BP’s trial on civil charges arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. BP’s internal investigation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill examined the direct cause of a rig blowout but i...
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Commuters awaiting a bus in New Delhi during the morning rush hour last month. The thick haze of outdoor air pollution common in India today is the nation’s fifth-largest killer, after high blood pressure, indoor air pollution (mainly from cooking f...
Jeff Opperman The author’s son, a skilled angler, and daughter on the banks of the Mekong in Laos. We carried that fishing rod for 10,000 miles on planes, taxis, buses, minivans and boats. And as my family’s trip down the Mekong River progressed, I became ever more determined that it ...
Bd-Maps The incidence of chytrid fungal disease in North America. Researchers are working to chart occurrences of the fungus, a threat to many amphibian species around the globe. One of the first things that epidemiologists do when studying a new outbreak of disease is to map its occu...
In its ongoing campaign to win over opponents of hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas industry has succeeded in persuading the owner of a historic Pennsylvania farm to allow gas to be extracted from beneath her property. Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust The Dennis Farm in 1939. The ...
Associated Press Stuart Chapman, a regional representative of the World Wildlife Fund, presented a petition for a blanket ban on the ivory trade to Thailand’s prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, on Wednesday. As my colleague Erik Olsen just noted here , many threatened species will b...
