MADRID. Hundreds of Spanish fire fighters, backed by planes and helicopters, were fighting on Monday to stop a fire
Three tornadoes have caused devastation in Virginia, injuring more than 200 people and destroying buildings. Report courtesy of www.bbc.co.uk
WASHINGTON - Mercury contamination in rivers can spread to nearby birds, even ones that don't eat fish or other
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Setting aside farmland to produce biofuels like ethanol may be partly to blame for driving up
BEIJING (Reuters) - A virus outbreak in an eastern Chinese city has killed 19 children and left hundreds ill,
TOKYO. Japan has detected a strain of bird flu in a flock of wild swans after stepping up checks
Five hundred homes have been evacuated in California after the first wildfire of the year broke out near Los
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Before humans began burning fossil fuels, there was an eons-long balance between carbon dioxide emissions and
Asia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and
There are 10 times more deaths across the UK from the superbug clostridium difficile among over 65-year-olds than in