The crisis has underscored the problems facing Indian agriculture as the population expands at the same time that water resources come under greater pressure.
As the community of nations prepares to negotiate a climate treaty, the drumbeat for sharpening the details and a framework for helping poor nations implement it is quickening.
Across 400 acres in Brooklyn that served as landfills — parcels that are still listed as toxic waste sites — 33,000 trees and shrubs and a variety of grasses are taking root.
Two radio station towers near Seattle that have generated intense local opposition were toppled in an act of sabotage that appeared to be linked to the radical Earth Liberation Front.
