Greenpeace called for a moratorium Monday on the expansion of palm oil plantations in Indonesia`s rainforests and peat-lands, warning that soaring world demand is creating an environmental crisis.
A cholera outbreak in Kenya has killed 67 people so far this year, while a fungus has wiped out up to 20 percent of the country`s annual rice production, United Nations agencies said on Friday.
Climate change will increase the risk of people losing their sight through cataracts because of higher levels of ultraviolet rays, an expert said Monday.
Young children who lead sedentary lifestyles are up to six times likelier to be at serious risk of heart disease later in life than active peers, according to a study released Friday.
The Russian prosecutor`s office has launched an inquiry into a paper and pulp mill suspected of polluting Lake Baikal, the world`s largest freshwater reserve, officials said Thursday.
People who take vitamin supplements are just as likely as those who don`t to develop lung cancer, and vitamin E supplements may actually slightly raise the risk, researchers said on Friday.
Children whose parents spank them or otherwise inflict physical punishment may be more likely to have sexual problems later, according to research to be presented Thursday to the American Psychological Association.
Eighty six children have been hospitalized, with five in a serious condition, following an outbreak of food poisoning at a kindergarten in East Siberia, a local official said on Friday.
The age-old belief goes that alcohol helps people drown their sorrows, but in truth the bottle only makes bad memories linger, a Japanese study said Friday.
Researchers have found another handle that the AIDS virus uses to attack cells, and said this one may explain how it gets into the gut, where it hides out and multiplies for a full assault on the body.
World Health Organization (WHO) experts will recommend ways to fight dangers linked to alcohol, including heart and liver disease, road accidents, suicides and sexually-transmitted infections, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
Smoking rates have more than doubled in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, researchers say.
An Australian girl spontaneously switched blood groups and adopted her donor`s immune system following a liver transplant in the first known case of its type, doctors treating her said Thursday.
A self-destructing palm tree that flowers once every 100 years and then dies has been discovered on the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, botanists said Thursday.
Cockroaches conceived in space onboard the Russian Foton-M bio satellite have developed faster and become hardier than `terrestrial` ones, a research supervisor said on Thursday.
Children of women who eat a Mediterranean diet rich in fruits and vegetables while pregnant are far less likely to develop asthma or allergies later in life, Greek researchers said on Tuesday.
New genetic evidence supports the theory that Christopher Columbus brought syphilis to Europe from the New World, U.S. researchers said on Monday, reviving a centuries-old debate about the origins of the disease.
A "death star" galaxy is sending out a powerful jet of particles and magnetic radiation that is likely obliterating any possible life in its broad path, notably in a nearby galaxy, astronomers said on Monday.
It took 18 months for her smile to come back completely, but doctors say the French woman who received the world`s first partial face transplant is doing well and is very satisfied with the results.
Children under five years old living near nuclear power stations have contracted cancer at a greatly higher rate than the national average, a study by the German government said Saturday.
Regular use of mobile telephones increases the risk of developing tumours, a new scientific study by Israeli researchers and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology revealed on Friday.
Plump babies may really be happier babies, Canadian and British researchers reported on Monday in a study that found people who had a low birth weight were more likely to have depression and anxiety later in life. ADVERTISEMENT
Allergies to peanuts and other foods are showing up in children at younger ages for reasons that are not clear, researchers said on Monday, and some urged parents to postpone exposing susceptible children to peanuts.
The world remains unprepared to cope with a pandemic in humans arising from bird flu, a UN and World Bank report released Thursday found.
When Frank Moran shot a mule deer during a hunting trip in Montana, there was no question what he would do with the venison. Moran took the deer to a meat processor, paid $70 for butchering and returned home to Sacramento, Calif.