Coral Reefs : poisoned, choked and bombed
The most complete study ever carried out on the world's coral reefs warns that many of these critical, valuable and beautiful ecosystems face extinction because of rising temperatures and human
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Canal safely drains volcano's crater
A dangerously swollen crater lake in a Philippine volcano safely disgorged streams of muddy water after a slow start in a massive drainage operation to save a town of 40000 people. twelve hours after
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Scientists succeed in transforming human stem cell
Biologists at the University of Wisconsin were reporting that they had transformed human embryonic stem cells into blood-making cells, a step that they say lays the basis for a novel set of therapies
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Coalition aims at producing anti-abortion supreme court
Seeking to show a united front after deep divisions over embryonic stem cell research, a coalition of socially conservative groups is kicking off a compaign this week to pressure President George.W.
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Nicaragua's misery creates opportunity for Sandinista
Nicaragua is suffering its worst drought in years. Its main export crop,coffee, is flooded global market. Sick and hungry children cry for food in their parents. And in the middle of all the misery,
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Getting enough to eat : millions don't, and won't
Stephen Waithaka, who farms less than a hectare of the rich volcanic soil on the foothills below Mount Kenya, brings in two crops of corn a year, but lives in constant fear of not having enough. The
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Studies fuel fracas over engineered corn
New studies on the impact of genetically engineered corn on monarch butterflies say the corn is having virtually no effect. The papers also make the provocative claim that earlier studies raising the
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In lab trials, vaccines seem to keep AIDS virus in check
AIDS researchers have described several experiment vaccines that don't prevent HIV infection, but apparently enable laboratory animals to lead more or less healthy lives after they acquire the virus.
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Heart study blames the male lifestyle
Women are less likely to die from heart disease than men, not because they are protected by female sex hormones but because men are more vulnerable to lifestyle risks such as dietary fat, researchers
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South Africa's biggest killer.
AIDS has become South Africa's biggest single killer, the country's Medical Research Council reports in a study made public. calculating that 40 percent of the deaths of those aged between 15 and 49