With teenage birth rates rising sharply, the second half of the 1980s was a period of intense public concern about teenage pregnancy. The good news, according to an article in the latest issue of

All over Mexico, small investors are hoping to tap potential of environmental tourism. Nature and adventure travel are growing worldwide by 30% each year. Mexico's habitats range from desert to

Tichilesti in Romania, is Europe's last leper colony. Founded by monks 120 years ago, the leprosarium had some 300 patients at its peak in the 1930s, though the Biblical scourage was by then extinct

After two decades of grueling research into the complex cellular processes that trigger pain, the first drugs custom-designed to block specific pain mechanisms are emerging from the labs. These new

Conservation International, a private, nonprofit organization based in Washington, has a goal in luring tourists to study Spanish and regional ecology: It hopes to safeguard the nationally protected

In Britain, the government is planning to penalize drivers of gas-guzzling autos. In Germany, nuclear energy is on the way out. And across Europe, support is growing for a drive to ban all

In a new National Bureau of Economic Research Study, economists Eli Berman and Linda T. Bui of Boston University assess whether environmental regulations hurts businesses and thus impedes or reduces

The turtles on the 2.4km long beach of Caribbean Coast-the last major untouched nesting ground between Costa Rica and Florida for endangered Atlantic loggerhead and green sea turtles-are the focus of

A new ally in the lab : Scientists often use mice and monkeys as human disease models. Now add to that menagerie the zebrafish. A team of researchers led by Harvard University geneticist Leonard I.

In August, Montaya a Eugene based company in hardwood panels and plywood joined the Certified Forest Products Council, an organization that promotes the purchase of timber harvested in an