European disaster
Deforestation and an ailing ecosystem : What is left of Europe's ancient forests, is under threat from ax, fire and pollution and urban sprawl, and little is being done about it. Less than 2 percent
Deforestation and an ailing ecosystem : What is left of Europe's ancient forests, is under threat from ax, fire and pollution and urban sprawl, and little is being done about it. Less than 2 percent
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization urged precautions worldwide against mad cow disease, saying that any country that imported cattle, meat or bone meal from Western Europe since the 1980s was
In 1942, as the tide of World War II started to turn against Japan, the Imperial Army pulled its troops from the southwestern Chinese province of Zhejian. According to a Chinese doctor, the army
With oil spills now covering more than 775 square miles of normally pristine waters in the Galapagos Islands and continuing to spread. Ecuador has declared a state of emergency and is stepping up its
Thailand will offer free treatment to travelers afflicted by "economy-class syndrome" on flights in and out of the country if they participate in a government study on the
Natural disasters-floods, storms, earthquakes-are entirely outside human control. As lethal as those calamities can be, the greater tragedy is that their destructiveness is too often magnified by
The cancer deaths of 24 European soldiers who served as peacekeepers in the Balkans and the illnesses reported by many others have stirred alarm in Europe about the use of depleted uranium in
European Union farm ministers agreed to tighten controls designed to halt the spread of mad cow disease after warnings that the crisis is threatening to break the community's budget and a report from
The casualty count in India keeps rising after the violent earthquake that convulsed the western state of Gujarat. Like the quake that devastated like nearly every major earthquake, the estimates of
Half of all children in the Tibetan region of China suffer from stunted growth, medical problems and potentially impaired intellecutal development as a result of malnutrition, according to a new