Virus-infected mosquitoes zero in on heart of N.Y.
Mosquitoes infected with the deadly West Nile virus have again been detected in the center of New York City, prompting officials to close Central Park as the 843-acre refuge was sprayed with
Mosquitoes infected with the deadly West Nile virus have again been detected in the center of New York City, prompting officials to close Central Park as the 843-acre refuge was sprayed with
Finland, frightened by dismal health statistics and aided by a booming economy that allows more investment in health care, has broken with the live-and-let-live attitude toward cigarette smoking that
Opponents of biotechnology have begun a campaign throughout the United States to press Campbell's Soup C. and other major producers to stop using ingredients obtained by means of genetic engineering,
Addressing a long-standing debate among scientists over how much of the brain is activated to perform a difficult task like taking an IQ test, researchers have found that a surprisingly small and
The death toll from a tornado that struck a Canadian campground reached 10, after a victim in an Edmonton hospital died of his
In the past decade, alongside steady growth in environmental anxiety and accumulating evidence of the risks of climate change, the area classified under the six categories of protected area
The tobacco industry may be forever changed by a jury's stunning award of $145 billion in punitive damages in a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of injured smokers in Florida. The process of
The village of Kiwawa in Kenya does not look like a famine zone yet. But as in so much of Africa's beleaguered northeast, appearances can be deceiving. Old people are the most affected by the
The French authorities demanded that angry workers who poured a small amount of corrosive sulfuric acid into the gutters of this factory town of Givet immediately halt any actions that could harm
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to increase funding for poor countries' fight against AIDS and for international debt relief, in an unexpected reversal of the Republican leadership's effort