New global models provide the opportunity to generate quantitative information about the world water situation. Here the WaterGAP 2 model is used to compute globally comprehensive estimates about water availability, water withdrawals, and other indicators on the river-basin scale.

The Great Wall of China, built to hinder marauding tribes, hampers the flow of plant genes too. Members of the same species growing on either side are genetically quite different, indicates a new

The European Union (eu) recently approved a plan to control the fishing and landing of sharks. The proposal aims to curb the repulsive practice of "finning', by which fisherfolk hack the fins of

China will embark on a nationwide emissions trading programme in 2005, in an attempt to make its major cities pollution-free. A 1998 World Health Organization report placed seven Chinese cities among

flawed trials: Yet another controversy has erupted over genetically modified (GM) crops

US attempts to kill of global democracy are getting more commonplace than ever. In such a political climate, it is impossible to talk about global rights to common property resources, equity and social justice