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World Watch articles from May 1998
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World Watch archives from May 1998
Internal colonization.
May 1, 1998... Years ago, progressive educators began complaining students in the "developed" world were getting a heavily distorted picture of history - that what children were being taught in school was almost entirely based on European and American...
Bio-serfdom and the new feudalism. (biotechnology in European agriculture)
May 1, 1998... In the latest European attack on the use of biotechnology in agriculture, 120 French farmers broke into a storage facility of the agribusiness multinational Novartis and destroyed 30 tons of transgenic corn seed. The attack - following the French...
The latest news on the missing frogs.
May 1, 1998... Dogged scientific detective work is beginning to shed light on the causes behind the puzzling global decline of frog populations, the scale of which was first realized by researchers in the late 1980s. The decline has captured widespread...
Freefall in global fish stocks.
May 1, 1998... Fishers today are capturing species that are significantly lower on the marine food chain than species they caught just 10 years ago, according to a recent study in the journal Science, co-authored by fisheries scientists from the University of...
Indonesia's discontent.(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... For more than 30 years, the rulers of the world's fourth most populous country have pursued an aggressive and seemingly successful development policy. But the economic crisis wracking the country today is one signal that much of that success has...
Taking the university to task. (participative environmental courses)
May 1, 1998... For many colleges and universities, environmental studies are no longer just academic.
When Megan Dunn arrived at the University of Rochester, New York in the fall of 1994 she was shocked to see a plume of black smoke pouring from the school's...
The other side of the world. (Bombay)
May 1, 1998... Why does anyone care about sustainability?
The world is too small. It is also too big. I first came to this impossible conclusion in the crowded second-class compartment of a commuter train rattling toward the heart of Bombay, and the thought...