Hong Kong Mulls Green 'Eco' Coffins
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HONG KONG - They're presentable, environmentally friendly and burn faster: cardboard &quot;eco-coffins&quot; may just be the solution to long queues at Hong Kong's busy crematoriums, officials say.
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ONE more child at a Hong Kong hospital has fallen prey to the mysterious respiratory infection that has put the Special Administrative Region on &quot;green&quot; alert.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's visit to China switches to environmental issues Saturday, as he seeks to boost co-operation between the two countries on tackling climate change, senior Downing Street officials said.
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Arguments over where to bury Yasser Arafat&#39;s body leave out opportunities to talk about the future of the Palestinians&#39; soul.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 21 (IPS) - Elaborate funeral rituals were performed in central  Brussels over the past week to show how a planned free trade  accord between the European Union and the Korean government  should, in the view of anti-poverty campaigners, be buried.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown's visit to China switches to environmental issues Saturday, as he seeks to boost co-operation between the two nations on tackling climate change, senior Downing Street officials said.
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By JULIAN BELTRAME  OTTAWA (CP) - With the world scrambling to combat global warming, one segment of the green movement offering one of the most innovative approaches to saving the planet is still fighting for acceptance - not from the public, but from environmentalists.
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Business & money: Two 'green' stores will include a series of eco-features aimed at reducing their carbon footprint.
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Science & environment: High street chains come bottom of 'green tissue' league table published by Greenpeace.
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By Li Fangchao  Experts and the public have expressed strong concern over the possible environmental impact of the construction of a massive chemical plant in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, Outlook Weekly reported yesterday.
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By Rina De Silva  PETALING JAYA: A novel way to protect the environment is in the pipeline.  A group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and residents' associations plans to buy up multi-million ringgit green lungs nationwide so that they would not be developed.
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The study raises questions of whether environmental standards are strict enough.
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A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said Â setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
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Millions of pounds are on offer for the best way of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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China is filthy and needs to spend lots of money to clean up. American companies could get that business.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- As mourners laid her bullet-riddled body to rest yesterday, environmentalists and colleagues of slain missionary Dorothy Stang seesawed between fragile optimism and angry skepticism over a question they had hoped never to consider.