Nepal planning cleanup on Everest
Garbage deposited on the southern slope of Mount Everest will be cleaned up in a couple of years, a Nepalese Tourism Official
Garbage deposited on the southern slope of Mount Everest will be cleaned up in a couple of years, a Nepalese Tourism Official
The Bush administration is proposing to drop a requirement at the heart of federal rules protecting the privacy of medical records. The administration said doctors and hospitals should not have to
Thai health authorities said that they would begin selling the world's cheapest anti-AIDS medication early next month, in a move applauded by AIDS activists. Treatment with the drug will cost less
The Japanese government agreed to pay $50 million to shut down an incinerator that has sent toxic chemicals wafting into a U.S. Navy base for a decade, solving an issue that had become an increasing
A panel of scientists has said that there was some evidence of a link between a soldier's exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and his children's risk of a specific form of
British health officials said that they had issued a nationwide alert after the deaths of seven people from a strain of meningitis apparently caught during the hajj. Since the March pilgrimage to
Foot-and-mouth pyres in Britain are creating more lethal pollutants than all of the country's most toxic factories combined, The Independent reported. The newspaper said unpublished government
A surge in illegal logging in Indonesia is threatening some of the world's largest tropical forests, endangering the future of the country's vital timber industry and drawing the anger of
The United States will attempt to fly a sophisticated robot airplane from California to Australia, testing new technology that could one day could revolutionize land, sea and coastal surveillance
Though India outlawed sex-determination tests in 1994, their use has become commonplace as ultrasound technology, which became available in cities during the 1980s, has spread to small towns served