KATE KELLAND
A gene that makes bugs highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in bacteria in water supplies in New Delhi used by local people for drinking, washing and cooking, scientists said on Thursday.
EBOOM STAFF
It is no secret China is currently beating the United States in the race to be the global leader of the new energy economy. However, with each passing month the gap between the two nations appears to be growing.
IB Times
A new study reveals a drought last year in the Amazon basin caused the forest to lose significant levels of vegetation, which in turn could accelerate the pace of global warming.
The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization reported in early March that food prices reached another record high, as the price of basic food staples continued to soar. The Index indicated that wheat and coffee prices have doubled in the past 12 months, while cocoa jumped 25 percent in just two
MICHAEL KANELLOS
CARL ZIMMER
Over the past 540 million years, life on Earth has passed through five great mass extinctions. In each of those catastrophes, an estimated 75 percent or more of all species disappeared in a few million years or less.
Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi
The Associated Press
India's new national census puts the population at about 1.21 billion people, or 17 per cent of the world population, the census commissioner says.
Patrick Worsnip
UNITED NATIONS, March 29 (Reuters) - The wealth gap between the least developed and other countries has widened in recent decades and will go on doing so unless their basic weaknesses are tackled, a report for the United Nations said on Tuesday.