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Thick smoke from hundreds of forest fires is severely restricting travel to and from Honduras with the country's four international airports affected by poor

Scientists are exploiting their discoveries instead of leaving the task to drug companies : a

The UK goverment's decision to accept nuclear waste from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia at the Dounreay nuclear complex in norther Scotland is to be investigated by the House of Commons trade

Medical researchers are tackling cancer in many different ways. The estimated 300 experimental cancer drugs range from orthodox chemotherapy to biotechnology approaches such as antibodies and gene

Plans by the Swedish government to abandon nuclear power were thrown into disarray after the country's Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the decommissioning of Sweden's oldest nuclear reactor

As four climbers make their assault on Mt. Everest's summit this week, NASA and Yale University will be testing new health care devices on space science technology. From the mountain's extreme

The news that a private company intends to leapfrog the government's Human Genome Project which seeks to determine the complete sequence of the 3 billion letter human genetic code raises intriguing

Two major Canadian logging companies have announced their decision to blast logging roads into the pristine valleys of Canada's temperate

Governor : The Karnataka State governor C Rangarajan cautioned that Polavaram project, proposed to be constructed across the Godavari river at an estimated cost of Rs 1200 crore, needed to be judged

A major intergovernmental meeting on the Convention on Biological Diversity is concluding in Slovakia with important agreements on a future biosafety treaty, international programmes on inland water