Eating well-done red meat-whether barbecued, grilled or pan seared-- does not increase a women's risk of breast cancer, but a diet rich in fish, chicken or turkey may offer some protection against

Scientists and officials warned Tuesday that a volcano on Japan's northernmost mainisland, Hokkaido, which killed three people in its last eruption 20 years ago, may be about to erupt again. Japan's

A Japanese group applied Monday to reopen a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant that has been closed since 1997 after a fire and explosion that exposed 37 people to radiation. The stat-run Japan Nucelar

In what organizers called the largest American demonstration against genetically engineered food, more than 1,500 protesters marched through central Boston and ended up outside a major

Two greens party members backed by foreign minister Joschka fischer said Monday that they would run for leadership positions in the ecologist movement, junior partners in Berlin's center-left

Officials have found another case of "mad cow" disease in south-central France, the Agriculture Ministry said Monday. The animal, discovered in the Haute-Vienne department , was the 12th afflicted

Hoping to put an embarrassing recall behind it, General Motors Corp. said that it had developed a fix for the fire hazard that forced it to take all its first-generation electreic vehicles off the

Canada has acknowledged that most of its national parks are suffering from serious environmental deterioraiton as a result of mismanagement, oversue and encroaching development. A

Smallpox has been eradicated, and polio could follow suit shortly. The world can justificably be proud of such far-reaching public health achievements. Friday is World TB Day. Most people in the

From simmering tanks of high-level nuclear waste in Washington State and plutonium laced with chemical poisons in Idaho to production of radioactive gases in South Carolina, the U.S. government's