Full Coverage: Land

25.01.2005 More than half of the land owned by Palestinians in East Jerusalem is expected to be affected by Israel's decision to expropriate the property of "Absentee Landowners." One Palestinian representative to Israel's Knesset called the decision a war crime and a Jewish politician warned that it would "open a PandoraÂ’s box...of legal and moral questions."

13.01.2005 The amount of land suffering from severe drought around the world has more than doubled in the past 30 years, and rising global temperatures are the key culprit, say U.S. researchers, noting that other than parts of the country's West, the United States is one of the few places on Earth to have largely been spared from the drying trend.

12.01.2005 Alors que des troupes policières surveillent plusieurs lieux, les dirigeants des quartiers réalisent des meetings et des marches pour renforcer la mobilisation qui regroupe des travailleurs, des chômeurs, des mineurs, des sans retraites, des sans terres, des étudiants et autres habitants, en plus des directions des organisations nationales comme la Centrale Ouvrière Bolivienne (COB).

07.01.2005 The Maldivian government and residents are working out if it makes sense to live on hundreds of low-lying coral islands scattered across 620 miles of the ocean. Every citizen lives within a few hundred yards of the water on an island with an average height of just one yard.