A defiant Japan still hunts dolphins
Japan's government has approved the killing of 22,000 dolphins and porpoises for the annual hunt starting this fall in about 10 fishing ports. Like the whaling that has prompted a global outcry, this
Japan's government has approved the killing of 22,000 dolphins and porpoises for the annual hunt starting this fall in about 10 fishing ports. Like the whaling that has prompted a global outcry, this
The South African president, Thabo Mbeki, who has confounded much of the world by challenging prevailing scientific thinking on AIDS, is stepping out of the messy debate he touched off early this
The world's largest species of sea lion is starving to death. Unless steps are taken to reverse the plummeting population of Steller sea lions, magnificent animals that inhabit the northern Pacific
Thirteen people were missing and feared dead after a landslide swept away several houses in the small village of Gondo in the southern Swiss Alps, the police said. In northwest Italy, flooding
Efforts to trace shipments of a bioengineered corn unapproved for human consumption have raised concern in the food and grain industry that the corn-which has already been discovered in two brands of
Now that lethal Ebola fever has emerged in Lacor, with three nurses at the hospital among the known dead, health officials are terrified that the highly contagious virus may have leapt from infected
The first animals genetically engineered for American dinner plates are being raised in Fortune, Prince Edward Island:salmon spliced with genes that make them grow two to four times faster than
More than 3,000 government run child-care centers and kindergartens were ordered shut as rapidly spreading foot,hand and mouth disease claimed the life of a third child in Malaysia. The viral disease
It will be a "long time" before France reviews its ban on imports of British beef, imposed because of the scare over "mad cow" disease, Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany said. Speaking a year after
Stress, anxiety and depression on the job affect as many as one in 10 workers worldwide, and costs employers in Europe and the United States more than $120 billion a study by the United Nations