Studies hint at irreversible rising seas
Within the next 100 years, the growing human influence on Earth's climate could lead to a long and irreversible rise in sea levels by eroding the planet's vast polar ice sheets, according to new
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Antibiotic resistance in pets grows, suggesting link to infections in humans
Antibiotic resistance has long been an important human health problem. But now it is also showing up in a small but growing number of pets in the United States, Canada and Europe, scientists and
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Drug makers reach patent accord over Plavix
Sanofi-Aventis and its partner Bristol-Myers Squibb have said they tentatively settled a patent dispute involving Plavix, the anti-clotting agent that is the world's second-best-selling drug. The
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U.S. companies slow to move on climate
European and Asian companies care more about global warming than do their American counterparts. And chemical companies care more than oil companies. Those are two conclusions that jump out of
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An Indian village's statistical lapse: Children
The village, Bhaupur and the district of Auraiya that surrounds it in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, has a very bad record on the issue of making children a statistical reality. No
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World support fading for private water aid
For more than a decade, the idea that private companies would be able to bring water to the world's poor has been a mantra of development policies promoted by international lending agencies and many
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A breath of fresh air
Clean air advocates who have had little to cheer about for the last five years finally won a big victory. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court
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In the drive to end polio, a plague of doubt and exhaustion
Some families slammed doors on the two volunteers going house to house with polio drops in this teeming city's decrepit maze of lanes, saying they feared the vaccine would sicken or sterilize their
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Dam project brings Laos cash and controversy
Near Sop hia, this dusty village of 51 houses, amid remote hills in the center of landlocked Laos, a country where electricity and running water are scarce and 80 percent of people still live on
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Indian automaker to invest in hybrids
Mahindra & Mahindra, India's biggest maker of sport utility vehicles, plans to spend as much as 6 billion rupees to develop new technology, helping it become India's first carmaker to make hybrid