The Philippine government called an urgent meeting to discuss how to solve the country's mounting waste problem after a mountain of garbage collapsed onto squatters shanties at Manila's largest

Scientists at the 13th international conference on AIDS are debating what to do about one of the most puzzling but potentially important findings in AIDS, namely that circumcised men are less likely

World tourism is booming, with the best known European monuments overrun and tropical islands at risk of being spoiled, Francesco Frangialli, secretary general of the World Tourism Organization says.

Federal regulators have shut down all government-funded human medical experiments at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Tulsa amid evidence that researchers there broke rules

Behind the hills next to the Pygmy village of Mabolo, Cameroon in the Central African rain forest, a pipeline is to be built in a few years to carry oil to the Atlantic Coast, where it will be

Last week's Washington Post series on AIDS inspires rage and fear in equal measure. Rage because governments and development agencies were negligently slow in resonding to the crisis, even though its

Australia called for an international agreement to save the albatross, one of the world's most majestic sea birds. Environment Minister Robert Hill warned an international meeting that some of the 20

The sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk is not just another tragic loss of life at sea. It added two more nuclear reactors, and perhaps nuclear warheads as well, to the more than half dozen

The first national advertising campaign for Stonyfield Farm Inc.-an American company that sells yogurt takes on a more serious tone and centers on celebrities who are advocates of environmental

Ed Norton, an environmentalist moved to China last year to lead a multimillion dollar bid by the Nature Conservancy to help create a string of national parks and wilderness areas in one of the most