The Independent
After surviving 20 million years, China's goddess of the river is driven to extinction
21 Aralık 2006
For 20 million years, the white-fin dolphin, or baiji, swam China's longest river, the Yangtze. But a few years of breakneck development,...
Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating
21 Aralık 2006
Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest...
Do they know it's Christmas?
20 Aralık 2006
After the warmest summer on record, birds that should be in the tropics are still here, leaves are still on trees and insects that should...
The Big Question: Why have five nurses and a doctor been condemned to death in Libya?
20 Aralık 2006
Why are we asking this question now? Because yesterday the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor were, for the second time,...
A dangerous seasonal disorder
19 Aralık 2006
The countryside is looking rather peculiar this winter. It seems we have a number of unexpected guests for Christmas. Dragonflies,...
Aerospace firms complain over green spoof adverts
18 Aralık 2006
Sir Montgomery Cecil, the president of Unlimited-Spurt - an organisation supposedly committed to aviation growth, which campaigns under the...
Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war
15 Aralık 2006
The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair...
Augusto Pinochet 1915-2006: He took his crimes to the grave
11 Aralık 2006
Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator who ruled Chile with an iron fist from 1973 until 1990, died in a high-security military hospital in...
The real price of cheap clothes: Bangladeshi sweatshop labourers paid just 3p an hour
8 Aralık 2006
Bangladeshis making cheap clothes for Asda, Tesco and Primark are paid as little as 3p an hour, according to a report that claims to reveal...
Fury at Madonna's coat of many chinchillas
8 Aralık 2006
Madonna has outraged animal rights groups by wearing a fur coat made from the skins of 40 chinchillas. By Maxine Frith, Social
Extreme weather: When a tornado struck London
8 Aralık 2006
The twister that hit Kensal Rise yesterday terrified residents and caused damage costing millions. By Terry Kirby
Exxon spends millions to cast doubt on warming
7 Aralık 2006
The world's largest energy company is still spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund European organisations that seek to cast...
New defence chief admits US is not winning the war in Iraq
6 Aralık 2006
The man picked by George Bush to be the next Defence Secretary has admitted the US is not winning the war in Iraq and said the soaring...
Iraq: One by one, they tell the truth
6 Aralık 2006
As Tony Blair flies out to meet George Bush, the latest admission of failure in Iraq has made the two leaders appear even more isolated
Trident replacement costs put at £65bn over 30 years
5 Aralık 2006
The Defence White Paper says upgrading the Trident submarine fleet at a cost of £15bn to £20bn is "cheaper" than other options for...
The spirit of resistance that has found a new voice in the struggle against Aids
1 Aralık 2006
"I can't exactly recall when I became aware of HIV/Aids in South Africa. I think it was at the start of the 1990s, when we began to get...
The suffering that betrays a world divided
1 Aralık 2006
Today is World Aids Day. It was first marked in 1991, an attempt by the international community to alert humanity to the terrible scale of...
Slaughter in Iraq soon seems to be part of normal life
28 Kasım 2006
special dispatch by Patrick Cockburn on his journey through a country being torn apart by civil war
Who killed Litvinenko?
27 Kasım 2006
Alexander Litvinenko was a man who could be taught little about the seamy side of modern Russia. A KGB agent for 18 years, he occupied a...
'Nightmare' expansion of British airports predicted
21 Kasım 2006
The spectacular growth in the demand for air travel is far out-stripping government forecasts and could lead to a "nightmare" expansion at...
Human shields prevent Israeli air strikes in Gaza
20 Kasım 2006
Israel is reviewing its advance warnings policy after calling off two air strikes when civilians formed "human shields" around the homes of...
Water firms to claim millions over rivers
20 Kasım 2006
Water companies are demanding hundreds of millions of pounds from the taxpayer in return for stopping taking water from the UK's...
MEPs produce 190,000 tonnes of CO2 a year carbon emissions
20 Kasım 2006
British MEPs have called for the parliament to stop travelling between Brussels and Strasbourg, arguing that the monthly visits not only...
Thousands flee as floods hit Kenyan refugee camp
20 Kasım 2006
The UN refugee agency began airlifting emergency aid to thousands of refugees after severe flooding hit a camp in north-eastern Kenya,...
