Russian study links fuel to serious illnesses
Highly toxic rocket fuel, spilled during launching at Russia's space center in Baikonue, Kazakhstan, is causing serious illness among people who live nearby, according to a study by Russian
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Seoul gives backing on stem cells
A team of scientists that produced the first cloned human embryo last year ws given government approval to proceed with stem cell research to find cures for diabetes, cerebral palsy and Parkinson's
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Russian study links fuel to serious illnesses
Highly toxic rocket fuel, spilled during launching at Russia's space center in Baikonue, Kazakhstan, is causing serious illness among people who live nearby, according to a study by Russian
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Look to Cuba for some tips
Here's a wrenching fact: If the United States had an infant mortality rate as good as Cuba's, America would save an additional 2,212 babies a year.Yes, Cuba's. Babies are less likely to survive in
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UN agency official seeks to dispel disease fears
The World Health Organisation said that it would send an laboratory and epidemiology experts to the northern Philippine city of Baguio to help determine whether a bacterial outbreak that has killed
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Rains trigger California landslide
After two and a half weeks of pelting rainover California, part of a saturated hillside gave way, sending a torrent of earth and trees onto four blocks of this oceanfront town in the southern part of
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In Sumatra, to provide clean water is to sustain life
A race is under way to keep this seaside city that lost so many lives to the ocean from losing any more. The earthquake and tsunami on Dec. 26 killed at least 6000 people in Meulaboh. But it also
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Chinese tariffs negligible', U.S. says
China's imposition of tariffs on apparel exports two weeks ago does not address the concerns of the United States, which wants Beijing to remove barriers to U.S. fabric exports and end local and
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Seeing the forest for the peace
Liberia has something that the world values now more than ever: a vast rain forest. Nature flourished in splendid isolation, and today more than a third of the country is virgin rain forest, one of
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It's time to start spraying DDT again
If the United States wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia- not to mention other poor countries in Africa