Environment

Excrement, Foam, Bicycle Paths Reduce Greenhouse Gases in Biggest Cities In East Berlin’s communist-era apartments, warm air used to seep through drafty walls. Heaters had to run overtime, taxing power plants and increasing greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming.

Ukraine Says Russia Severs Gas Supplies as Dispute Worsens, Europe Freezes Russian natural-gas exports through Ukraine to Europe halted for the first time in three years, threatening to create shortages as freezing weather spurred demand for power.

Greenpeace Activists Beam Image of EU Flag, Slogans Onto Prague's Castle Greenpeace activists projected an image of the European Union flag and slogans in English and Czech onto the Prague Castle last night, the group said in a statement on its Web site.

Indonesia's West Papua Hit by Aftershocks as UN Helps Earthquake Survivors Indonesia’s West Papua province was hit by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake today, the latest powerful tremor to shake the region where five people were killed and hundreds injured at the weekend when buildings were destroyed.

Measles Spreads in Europe to More Children as Vaccine Rejected by Parents More than 12,000 Europeans, mostly children, contracted measles in the past two years as parents shunned vaccinations, casting doubt on public health efforts to eradicate the infectious disease by 2010, researchers said.

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