'Smoke gets in your eyes' : For nearly a decade, the U S government has been trying, and failing, to get the Japanese Murata's dioxin-laden smoke, which coils around the housing at the Atsugi Naval

The space agency NASA has managed to launch space shuttles safely with a reduced work force, but critical shortages of skilled engineers and unhurried efforts to replace them could pose increased

Moe than 1600 tons of nuclear weapons parts reportedly lie scattered around the U.S. Energy Department's uranium plant in Paducah, Kentucky, a safety manager has informed regulators, in a new

Corruption involving water has become one of China's most emotional flash points. More than 100 cities in northern China are rationing dwindling water supplies. The Chinese National Audit Bureau

Europe's love affair with the car costs tens of thousands of deaths from air pollution each year and carries a high economic price, according to research to be published in The Lancet, the British

Facing one of the most important security decisions of his tenure, President Bill Clinton said that he would postpone a final decision to begin building a national missile defence system, to allow

Global warming could wipe out many species of plants and animals and fundamentally alter up to a third of Earth's plant and animal inhabitants by the end of the 21st century, according to a report

The power of genetic engineering is providing scientists with the ability to create animals that confound the imagination. The most striking of the new creatures being concocted by plucking a gene

Russia launched a cargo spacecraft to its Mir orbital station on Tuesday with fuel, water and other vital supplies to restart the space laboratory ahead of a planned manned mission.

Evidence is growing, albeit slowly, that the lost Mars Polar lander is the source of the mystery signal that NASA began investigating last week. The space agency, plans to step up efforts to talk to