Threat to panda habitat
Ecologists are reporting a troubling trend in the Wolong Nature Reserve, China's largest and most heralded sanctuary for endangered giant pandas: The only mammalian population rapidly increasing
Ecologists are reporting a troubling trend in the Wolong Nature Reserve, China's largest and most heralded sanctuary for endangered giant pandas: The only mammalian population rapidly increasing
Signs of progress in stemming the spread of foot-and-mouth disease have made a controversial vaccination program less likely, a spokesman for the office of the British Prime Minister said.
At least 4,000 firefighters who have worked at ground zero are being treated for persistent coughing and chest pain, a problem that the city's Fire Department has labeled World Trade Center
The Montgomery Country Council in Maryland has approved one of the most restrictive anti-smoking measures in the nation, setting stiff fines for people who smoke in their own homes if it offends
The Canadian government has proposed rules that would allow terminally ill patients and people suffering from chronic illnesses such as arthritis and AIDS to buy, cultivate and use marijuana for
In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair has mobilized the army to bury a half million slaughtered sheep in a desperate attempt to contain foot-and-mouth disease. But in Hong Kong, which has more
Jurors in Miami have found that second-hand smoke did not cause the lung disease of a former airline flight attendant, handing a victory to the tobacco industry in the first trial of more than 3,000
New England's fishing community, which has been struggling with problems of dwindling stocks, catch quotas, even total bans in some localities, may have something to learn from Iceland and the
The surprise appearance of a life-threatening case of inhalation anthrax in a Washington State Department mailroom worker who had never visited the contaminated Brentwood postal facility a few miles
Seven months after setting off a political firestorm by suspending the Clinton administration's toughened standard for acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water, the Bush administration has