Newmont Mining Corp.'s legal problems in Indonesia deepened as the government filed a $1.33 million lawsuit accusing the world's largest gold-mining company of causing environmental damage near its

Indonesia's apparent success in containing a national outbreak of avain influenza last year through mass poultry vaccinations may boost global efforts to prevent a long-expected bird flu linked

On the recent afternoon, Dr Ly Sovann sat perspiring in his stuffy office and wondered if he had an epidemic on his hands. Since word spread that a Cambodian woman in a remote village succumbed to

Office furniture companies embrace recyclable designs as more consumers go green. The $900 chair can be disassembled with basic hand tools in about five minutes and most of its parts are recyclable.

Preventing avian flu from sparking a deadly human pandemic will require several hundred million dollars of aid as well as a massive restructuring of Asia's poultry-production practices, according to

A new kind of space race is gaining velocity; harnessing a power akin to the stars' to zap away garbage and free up room in landfills. One of the leaders in the field is Westinghouse Plasma Corp., a

When george W. Bush first visited Europe as U.S. president, he received a blistering critique of the American decision to reject the Kyoto Protocol on globla warming. Not only did Mr. Bush resent the

In a fresh assault on bacterial contamination of food, some major U.S. meat processors have embraced a high-pressure processing technique that they say makes cold cuts, fruit and other edibles safer

There was much talk last week about a "hockey stick" and melting ice. But just so we're clear, this hockey tick isn't a sports implement; it's a scientific graph. Back in the late 1990s, American

China's grim 19th century style mines many of them little more than holes in the ground