Water is a vital resource for sustaining human life, growing crops and running many industrial activities. It is disturbing that in many areas of the world the demand for fresh water is rising faster

Representative John Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, plans to introduce a bill that would encourage the sale of diesel cars in the United States, a prospect strongly supported by the auto industry but

Like something out of bad science fiction, a metal box on wheels is steadily gnawing away at the world's older cities and building sprawling new ones designed to meet its needs. That monster is the

When Jorge Abdala's water bill jumped to 59 pesos a month from 24 a few years ago, he went looking for someone to blame. He soon found his villain: a French multinational company at the forefront of

This week the world gets a glimpse of the future. General Motors' revolutionary Hy-wire car makes its debut at the Paris Motor Show. GM's automobile runs on hydrogen the most burned, hydrogen emits

A parade of frustrated scientists has told a Senate subcommittee that research on human embryonic stem cells was moving exceedingly slowly, a problem they attributed to the restrictions that

As the Indian capital faced the brunt of another waterless summer, protest for water have been a common sight. And government officials and environmentalists say a menacing water crisis is looming

The Euogrates River is alone by, but the water does not reach Abdelrazak Aween. The Syrian government has promised water for Aween's tiny village. But upstream, in Turkey, and downstream, in Iraq,

PPL Therapeutics PLC has said it cloned piglets lacking both copies of a gene responsible for triggering a violent immune response in humans, advancing long-held hopes for growing a supply of organs

The genetic manipulation of animals poses serious risks to the environment and potentially to human health, and national efforts to manage those risks are disorganized and probably inadequate, a