Officials in Brazil's tourist capital Rio de Janeiro were struggling to stop

international authorities have sent "a clear message' to the illegal driftnet fishing industry by seizing two boats in the north Pacific, said Canadian officials. The two were among four

work on a new oil terminal on the Black Sea coast has led to renewed concerns over environmental safety in one of Russia's most beautiful regions. At a ceremony at Yuzhnaya Ozereika, near

Two calves clones from cells found in cow's milk stand together at a research

The United Nations' Population Fund (UNFPA) has denied reports that the emergency reproduction health kits sent to Albanian women, running away from the war in Kosovo, contained abortion pills. The

Government authorities in Bangladesh said at least 12 people died in the storm that swept across the country in the second week of April. Over 54 people were reported missing and more than 100 were

Mahmoud Salem of Kingston University in Surrey, UK, has used ash residue from power stations to develop a fireproof ceramic material. A thin coat of the material on a steel bar will allow it to

Smoke and flames rise from the fertiliser plant

The World Bank will

An epidemic of