Once dominated by fringe activists, environmentalism is now an essential element of political reform-especially in the developing world, where the destruction of nature threatens to widen the gap
The ambitious 24000 MW Tehri dam project has been marred by fresh controversy with experts debating on how safe the structure is in the event of a quake ever since some cracks developed around the
Within a year, if all goes well, the first cancer patient will be injected with two new drugs that can eradicate any type of cancer, with no obvious side effects and no drug resistance-in mice. The
So many young Burmese are injecting heroin that some medical exeprts say Burma has the world's highest rate of HIV infection and AIDS contracted from AIDS needles. By 1994, the Global Program on AIDS
Workers began a massive clean up in the aftermath of toxic waste spill that has created one of Spain's worst ecological disasters. The owner of the mine, the Canadian-Swedish conglomerate Boliden
Buyer beware : Studies have shown that patients make more visits each year to alternative care practitioners than to primary care physicians, and most of them pay out of their pockets for the care
Beloved bean in peril : An unusual alliance of manufacturers and environmental groups has formed to try to prevent a shortage of chocolate. Cocoa farms around the globe are failing, under siege from
Japan and South Korea are moving towards settlement of their fisheries dispute by autumn, when Kim Dae-Jung will pay his first visit to Japan as South Korean
Obayashi Corp. said it has developed a measuring instrument that can directly calculate the volume of formaldehyde and other toxic compounds emitted by building
