(October 01, 2009 | Safety & Health)
Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to find people trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian city of Padang, possibly killing thousands.
(September 30, 2009 | Safety & Health)
More than half of the 9.5 million people who need AIDS drugs cannot get them and 33 million people across the world are still infected with the virus that causes it, a United Nations report said on Wednesday.
(September 30, 2009 | Safety & Health)
A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing possibly more than 100 people, some washed out to sea, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, officials said.
(September 29, 2009 | Safety & Health)
Philippine authorities braced for another storm as the death toll from rain and floods at the weekend mounted to 240.
(September 29, 2009 | Climate Change)
U.S. wavering on climate commitment could undermine action to save the planet, the director of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said on the sidelines of a conference.
(September 29, 2009 | Climate Change)
The European Union and the United States are holding talks on forging a pact with OECD countries and China to eliminate duties on green goods as part of incentives to Beijing in a potential global climate deal.
(September 28, 2009 | Demographics)
Six out of 10 U.S. Hispanic illegal immigrants lack health insurance, more than twice the rate for legal Latino residents and citizens and three times the average for the population as a whole, a study showed.
(September 28, 2009 | Climate Change)
Aviation and shipping should cut their respective carbon dioxide emissions to 10 and 20 percent below 2005 levels over the next decade, the European Union is likely to propose at global climate talks this week.
(September 25, 2009 | Energy)
The Group of 20 will agree to phase out subsidies on oil and other fossil fuels in the "medium term," but will not set a firm timetable for the move aimed at combating global warming, a draft statement said.
(September 25, 2009 | Climate Change)
Climate change is threatening 163 rare species discovered only last year in the Greater Mekong region, conservation group WWF said.
