Members of Brazil's environmental police force IBAMA and the Para state police inspect logs discovered during "Operation Labareda," a raid against illegal logging, near Novo Progresso in the Amazon rain
In recent yeas, manufacturers have been engineering sunscreens that blend into the skin. How do they do it? By taking the basic sunblocking ingredients
On the troubled continent, Bush will stump for his $15 billion AIDS relief plan. With medicine and treatment now cheaper and more accessible than ever, 30 million people may stand a chance. As
Nine percent of the big fish have already been caught. Will rampant over fishing cause the ocean's ecosystems to collapse? No one knows. Marine biologists are spoiled for diversity : the Australians
In 1982, with 13 major species of whales teetering on the brink of extinction, the International Whaling Commission imposed a moratorium on commercial whale hunting. Since then, the Northern Pacific
Obesity is spreading to parts of the world that once worried about getting enough to eat.Within the past decade obesity rates have shot up by 50 per cent, rising from 200 million people in 1995 to
Famine-torn Africa stands to gain the most from the biotech revolution. Why then hae scientists ignored its staple crops? It was one of those rare inventions that could save the world. Back in the
