Poland mired in wetlands row
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The EU plays a controversial role as Poles row about a highway that would go through unique wetlands.
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Once a byword for poverty and  post-communist racketeering, Poland's second largest city of  Lodz was a place people wanted to escape. Today some are moving  back, drawn by foreign investment and falling unemployment.
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A case before the European Court of Human Rights is being seen as a landmark that could force Poland to compensate Holocaust survivors and their descendants for their material losses.
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In Poland, the mood is mixed. Three of four Poles questioned by The Associated Press said they would not vote even if they could.
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THE LIVES lives of dozens of birds - including three rare avocet chicks - are in danger after an oil spillage polluted a North-East nature reserve.  Staff at WWT Washington Wetland Centre, on Wearside, were last night monitoring the water at Wader Lake after oil was found.
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Wedged between troubled Ukraine and the West, Poland has plunged into the disputed Ukrainian presidential election in an attempt to mediate &#151; a sign of anxiety over the prospect of instability and rising Russian influence so close to home.
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Poland is braced for rival demonstrations planned by members of the governing conservatives and liberal opposition as the country's tumultuous politics spilled onto Warsaw's streets.
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A new approach to managing floods could result in some areas being flooded in Wales.
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The recent death of poet Czeslaw Milosz robs the world of one of its most prophetic and powerful voices.
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A sharp wind rustles the brittle wetland grasses, and the snow crunches underfoot _ the only sounds in the Rospuda River valley, home to one of Europe's best preserved peat bogs.Comment
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Border items made redundant by Poland's Thursday midnight entry into Schengen free-travel zone are to be auctioned to help refugees, according to the Internet site of Poland's liberal Gazeta Wyborcza daily.
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High-profile Polish-German talks in Berlin are set to be overshadowed by a World War II reparations row.
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THERE is nothing new under the sun. Hereâs the scenario. Itâsa vital World Cup qualifier deep in the industrial heartlands of Poland.
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The newly released Polish edition of a book by a Princeton University professor has dredged up painful memories here, forcing the country to confront a difficult chapter in its history: the deaths of Jews at the hands of Poles in the aftermath of World War II.
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Poland's beleaguered Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski surprised Warsaw's press when he called a news briefing on Saturday in a Warsaw park to call on Poles to feed ducks with the approach of winter.Comment
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A Polish town finds geese rearing a good way of keeping heads above water in an uncertain economic climate.
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By Nirvi Shah, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--Wetlands present a unique obstacle to South Florida school construction.   From the northeast corner of Broward to the southwest, the limestone that can support construction becomes buried under deeper layers of muck and peat.