Ethiopia's choice
War or famine? : As months passed without rain and the earth turned to rock, the government of Ethiopia did two things. To the West, it issued increasingly insistent demands for food for its hungry
War or famine? : As months passed without rain and the earth turned to rock, the government of Ethiopia did two things. To the West, it issued increasingly insistent demands for food for its hungry
The Dalai Lama's administration has complained in a report to the United Nations that China has damaged Tibet's environment through careless exploitation of oil, mineral, water, animal and timber
In a country best known for its tough one-child policy, large young families today are scattered throughout the countryside. The size of the rural population boom is unclear because many "illegal"
Some of the world's most dedicated human rights activists have started as campaigners for the environment. Ken Saro-Wiwa's initial cause, for example, was the devastation that Royal Dutch/Shell's oil
Drug Firm's headache? : An American university has been awarded a broad patent covering the use of a new type of painkiller that has become the pharmaceutical industry's fastest-selling new product.
Blood safety is becoming an important factor in combating the global spread of AIDS. The World Health Organization estimates that from 5 to 10 percent of transmissions of HIV, the virus that causes
There is no convincing scientific evidence that taking large amounts of Vitamin C, Vitamin E, or the nutrients selenium and beta carotene can reduce the chances of getting cancer, heart disease,
Hoping to starve the World Bank of the money it lends, activist groups have pledged to organize a global boycott of its most important fund-raising tool, World Bank bonds. The groups will begin by
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has stepped up an emotional Africa has stepped ip an emotional controversy over his country's response to AIDS, saying Africans should chart their own course on
In the shadow of one of the world's oldest and largest trees, President Bill Clinton granted permanent protection this weekend to groves of California's giant sequoia redwoods, calling them "the