New disease stalks Great Barrier Reef
Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, maybe confronting a new enemy as an unknown disease spreads almost imperceptibly through its multi coloured coral.
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Tissue donor passed along hepatitis C
Forty people received tissue or organs from an Oregon man who died two years ago with an undiagnosed case of viral hepatitis that can spread chronic liver disease, state health officials say.
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Poaching of rare fish is targeted
In remote, sub-Antarctic seas, Australian fishermen are threatening to take the law into their own hands to stop pirate operators from plundering the rare and protected Patagonian toothfish. Demand
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Please, let's not privatize elephants
After a decade in which ivory poachers had taken their AK-47s to 700000 elephants -compared to barred ivory imports, initiating a worldwide ban in 1989 under the African Elephant Conservation Act. In
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ImClone and Squibb plan new tests of cancer drug
ImClone Systems Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.,under criticism from cancer patients for not moving swiftly enough have said that they will soon begin several clinical trials aimed at winning
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Heavy rains in Bangkok flood centre of the city
Torrential rain brought flash flooding to central Bangkok on Monday, snarling traffic, delaying school exams and forcing thousands of workers to stay home. A combination or rain, high tide and
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Drought threatens pepper crop
Global pepper production will probably fall for a second year in 2003 sending prices higher, because of a shortage of rain in India, Indonesia and other major producing countries, according to an
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Genome team scores malaria breakthrough
Scientists have determined the precise genetic blueprint for a single-cell parastie that causes malaria and for the mosquito that transmits it to people, an accomplishment they say will allow them to
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Experimental gene therapy halted as boy develops leukemia
An experimental genetic therapy that seemed to have cured several toddlers born with a life-threatening immune system disease has apparently caused a leukemia -like syndrome in one of the treated
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Environmental law
On issues large and small, the Bush administration has spent the better part of two years rolling back President Bill Clinton's environmental legacy. It has abandoned the Kyoto accord on global