UN Seeks to Save Great Apes
The United Nations Environment Program started a campaign Monday to save the world's great apes from extinction, saying it would take at least $1 million to get key programs under way. Specialists
The United Nations Environment Program started a campaign Monday to save the world's great apes from extinction, saying it would take at least $1 million to get key programs under way. Specialists
Young people in East Asia and the Pacific are "woefully unprepared" to deal with HIV and AIDS, which are expected to spread dramatically in the region, Unicef
Tuberculosis, one of the world's major killers, could be brought under control within five years if nations would commit an additional $400 million a year, say officials of the World Health
Invading "aliens" are costing the global economy possibly hundreds of billions of dollars every year as well as spreading diseases and causing massive ecological destruction, yet no one is doing much
To the befuddlement of scientists and regulators, many of the largest food manufacturers are embellishing their products with the active ingredients found in dietary supplements and traditional
Stopping in South Africa on the second leg of his African tour, Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was confident that President Thabo Mbeki was "doing everything possible" to cope with the
For two decades, anti-whaling nations led by the United States have safeguarded the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on commercial whale hunting. But a vote last week allowing Iceland to
China, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong are perceived to be the most polluted Asian countries, while Japan, Singapore and Malaysia are the cleanest, a regional survey shows.
The most serious humanitarian crisis in the world today, United Nations experts say, may be in Afghanistan, where up to 4 million people are at risk of starvation this year. In the past few months
Passenger and crew members flying on the recently inaugurated North Pole route between New York and Hong Kong are exposed to unusually high levels of cosmic and solar radiation, according to