Gene maps: The key to better food?
As the controversy surronding genetically modified foods intensifies, scientists are trying to use the rapidly growing knowledge about genes to enhance conventional breeding to crops and livestock,
As the controversy surronding genetically modified foods intensifies, scientists are trying to use the rapidly growing knowledge about genes to enhance conventional breeding to crops and livestock,
A Mexican government investigation into the death of millions of monarch butterflies at their winter nesting grounds determined that they were killed by cold weather, the state run Notimex news
Obesity and hunger coexist in the United States. Farmers in China rebel against low prices and high taxes. India raises excess grain but leaves its people malnourished in protein. Consumers rebel
Contamination caused by depleted uranium ammunition used in Kosovo is low, but there are still possible dangers from radiation in the water supply, the United Nations Environment Program said.
The UK government said that the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that has been wreaking havoc in Britain shows no sign of being contained.
The effort to contain foot-and-mouth disease has created a nightmarish reality : pyres of farm animals in Britain and France, the abrupt closing of trade borders around the world, a sense of grief
Battered by a foot-and-mouth epidemic that shows no sign of abating, Britain's livestock farmers braced for a broadened slaughter in which up to 1 million animals could be destroyed. The National
Air travelers should wear comfortable clothes and exercise in their seats to cut the risk of getting life-threatening blood clots, the chief of the International Air Transport Association said.
With an ally now in the White House, Republicans in the House of Representatives have opened a coordinated campaign to begin imposing new restrictions on abortion, starting with a bill that would
A growing number of countries closed the door to meat exports from the European Union because of the spread of foot-and-mouth disease from Britain to France.