A failure in its crumling electricity grid forced Russia to shut down several nuclear reactors over the weekend, including those at the huge top-secret Mayak fuel reprocessing plant, officials

The Red Cross requested international assistance of $3.5 million to provide relief to some of the millions of villagers left homeless by devastating floods in eastern

Few environmental issues have been as important to Al Gore as protecting Florida's Everglades. But an airport controversy at the southern rim of the imperiled ecosystem has caused the vice president

With memories of postwar hunger still painfully sharp, the Japanese government approved in 1963 an ambitious plan to drain a saltwater lake surronding Daikon Island to create rice paddied. But after

European and North American groups are adivising Africans to be wary of agricultral biotechnology. But scientific evidence disproves their claims that enhanced crops are anything but safe. And if we

Japan is a member of the International Whaling Commission, which banned commercial whaling in 1982, but the convention allows signees to engage in limited hunts for scientific purposes. Six Japanese

A highly classified intelligence report warns that deploying a U.S. national missile defense could prompt China to expand its nuclear arsenal tenfold and lead Russia to place multiple warheads on

Rivers rose again in northeastern India, bringing more misery for flood victims. About 300 people are feared dead in the floods and millions have been made homeless throughout India, Nepal, Bhutan

the UN : When Amoco started drilling for oil in Angola a few years ago, Exxon and Chevron had already landed some of the richest oil fields and could easily outbid their smaller rivals for others.

An official inquiry into the infection of more than 200 Irish hemophiliacs with HIV and hepatitis C has confirmed that the government's Blood Transfusion Service Board knowingly put them at risk