Environmentalists scored a victory in Brazil when congressional leaders shelved a draft bill that proposed cutting the area of the Amazon protected as a reserve. The decision, made at a cross party

The petroleum reserve found recently by a consortium of Western oil companies in the northern Caspian Sea may well be the largest oil discovery in 20 years, according to U.S. officials and industry

AstraZeneca PLC says it plans to sell a genetically alterd strain of "goldenrice" in the developed world and to help make the technology that created the strain freely available to the world's

The "bush meat" crisis in Africa, the illegal hunting of wildlife for commercial purposes, may well result in the virtual extinction of apes and other endangered species from the remaining Central

Swarms of jellyfish consumed so many fish eggs and larvae in the Gulf of Mexico this summer that some scientists are talking about the potential for serious future threats to commercial and

Researchers say they are homing on a new gene associated with the paralyzing affliction Lo Gehrig's disease, which may shed light on what causes the illness and may offer treatments for it. The new

Antibodies made in the lab show promise against disease. "Antibodies have gone through sort of a birth, death and rebirth" said Samuel Waksal, president and chief executive of Imclone Systems, a New

Mainstream environmentalists are putting aside earlier concerns and lining up strongly behind Vice president Al Gore's presidential candidacy, turning away from the Green Party candidate, Ralph

Monsanto Co. has announced that it will give away certain patent rights to speed use of a genetically modified rice that could save millions of malnourished children in poor countries from dying or

The European Court of Justice imposed a fine on Greece for failure to respect European Union environmental laws. The ruling is a legal landmark, representing the first time that the EU's highest