Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd. has long been a pariah to environmental groups for clear-cutting trees in a tropical rainforest here. Friends of the Earth accused it of destroying

Medicare officials say the program's new drug benefit will cost less than expected this year, as beneficiaries gravitate to plans with lower premiums. The average premium for beneficiaries this year

Researchers led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have developed a more accurate system for counting fish, providing scientists with better data on how rapidly fish populations

As used by the media, "global warming" refers to the theory not only that the earth is warming, but doing so because of human industrial activity. How can a reasonably diligent citizen assess this

The nation's bird-flu death toll climbed to 50 Friday after laboratory tests showed that an 11-year-old boy died of the

Honda Motor Co. is betting a newly developed engine will win over American consumers to diesel-powered vehicles. The Japanese auto maker announced plans to launch in the US by 2009 a sedan - probably

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has offered to donate $50 million to help start a "last resort" international stockpile of nuclear-power-plant fuel for nations worried about sources of supply.

Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation plan to spend $150 million on a new campaign to ease hunger in Africa and whose success they say will rest heavily on cooperation from African

The decline in US air travel that followed the Sep 11, 2001, terror attacks delayed the onset of that year's annual flu outbreak and slowed its spread around America, according to a new analysis that

All summer long, Dan Palmer has seen this moment coming. He's production chief at the Phillip Alampi Beneficial Insect Rearing Laboratory, a New Jersey state institution. The lab's big moneymaker is