A new inquiry in Iraq on depleted uranium
The Iraqi government has for years insisted that the use of depleted uranium shells by U.S. forces in the Gulf War inflicted serious environmental damage in Basra in the southern part of the country.
The Iraqi government has for years insisted that the use of depleted uranium shells by U.S. forces in the Gulf War inflicted serious environmental damage in Basra in the southern part of the country.
Last week, Ian Thomas posted a map on a U.S. government web site of the caribou calving areas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area the Bush Administration wants to open up for oil
Since the ill-fated trade talks in Seattle two years ago, the World Trade Organization has served as a lightning rod for complaints that globalization benefits industrial countries at the expense of
More than 430 million bushels of corn in storage throughout the United States contain some of the genetically engineered variety that prompted a massive recall of corn products in the autumn, the
Because of changing eating habits and more choices of foods, Americans may be more likely to get sick from what they eat today than they were half a century ago. The frequency of serious
Reluctant to undermine a renaissance of Argentine beef on world markets, the Argentine government hid an outbreak of bovine foot and mouth disease for months before divulging it last week, according
Since foot-and-mouth disease broke out last month, it has devastated Britain's farmers, left wide areas of the countryside under quarantine and dealt a major blow to the country's tourism industry.
The past week has brought surprising progress towards making AIDS drugs more affordable in poor nations. The most significant development was an announcement by Merck, which makes two of the most
An epidemic of mosquito-borne dengue fever has claimed 38 lives in Vietnam since the start of the year and left more than 14,200 people sick, according to official figures
British farmers opposed to the slaughter of apparently healthy animals to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, argued for a vaccine program, as more cases of the disease were discovered.