Peter S. Green

NEW YORK – ‘Everyone’s growing oysters,’ Chris Quartuccio says over his shoulder as he paddles a kayak across Long Island’s Great South Bay, where he’s raising some 300,000 Blue Island oysters on the shallow seafloor 50 miles east of Manhattan.
He might be right. Close to a hundred oyster farms have sprung up during the past decade or so, in bays, creeks and tidal ponds strung along the Atlantic seaboard from Virginia to Canada’s Prince Edward Island, according to Bloomberg Pursuits magazine....

Boardroom battles do not usually attract more television viewers than the World Cup, but as financial and political power brokers in the Czech Republic struggle for control of the leading TV station, nearly a million viewers are tuning in to watch the fray.

Why did a Czech billionaire buy a stake in France's most prestigious newspaper?

It reads like the script of a ''B'' movie: A tough-talking, Russian-born heavy promises to smooth out the legislative obstacles facing one of post-Communist Poland's most successful companies. All he wants, he tells one of the country's most influential men, is $17.5 million.

Gazeta Wyborcza, the newspaper that helped Poland's Solidarity labor union movement defeat the Communist rulers in 1989, is taking its ambitions to the next level: financial solidity.

An appreciation of the departing NY Post editor.

Article about a new daily newspaper I helped start

Parts of the historic center of Prague were under water tonight and 50,000 residents were ordered evacuated as rivers swollen by more than a week of near constant rain etched ribbons of destruction across Central Europe and southern Russia.
More than a dozen people were killed by high waters today, pushing the toll for the last week well past 70. In Russia alone, 58 people have died in flooding caused by some of the heaviest rains in memory.
With the worst rains since 1890 pelting the Czech R...

The world is running out of water. Here's why you should be afraid.

''Alchemy,'' answered Stanislav Libensky. The question was how Mr. Libensky and his wife, Jaroslava Brychtova, arrive at the sublimely pure colors that define their work as glass artists, and it seemed an almost plausible explanation for the genius that has made them among the most respected artists in their medium today.
In fact, there is nothing mysterious about the Libenskys' work. They have spent nearly half a century refining the art and technique of casting huge chunks of delicately col...