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China Closes Ozone Depleting Chemical Plants
China, the world's largest producer of ozone depleting chemicals, chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) and halon, has shut down five of its six remaining plants and banned...
Free Angels Bring Hope to Thousands
Linda Richard of Beaumont, Texas, delivers small hand painted ceramic angels to people living with life threatening illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and cancer,...
Can Salt Water Fuel the World?
"Is the solution to America's energy needs as simple as a trip to the beach? The idea is a fascinating one as a Florida...
Ton of Pharmaceuticals Kept Out of Michigan Rivers (Earth Day Follow-Up)
Pharmaceuticals in the water supply likely are responsible for crises of sexual mutation in fish found in the Potomac River and deformed frogs in...
$500 Million Pledge to Reverse Childhood Obesity in U.S.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today announced it will commit at least $500 million over the next five years to tackle childhood obesity. The...
Mankind Has Never Been Healthier, Wealthier or Freer. Surprised?
Environmentalists and globalization foes are united in their fear that greater population and consumption of energy, materials, and chemicals accompanying economic growth, technological change...
Laser Therapy Spares the Scalpel and the Chemo
"Imagine you could treat cancer by taking a pill, then directing a laser light toward the location of the tumor. The growth would dissolve...
Teens’ Right to Seek Alternatives to Chemotherapy Enacted
Virginia governor Tim Kaine enacted a law yesterday that ensures teenagers and their parents have the right to refuse medical treatments for ailments such...
$33 Million Donation for Stem Cell Institute
Lorry I. Lokey, the founder of Business Wire and a regular supporter of education and science, will give $33 million to help build a...
Blind Kid Uses Echo-Location to See, Live Active Life (Video)
Benjamin Underwood, 14, had cancer in his eyes that stole his sight at age two. But he doesn't "see" himself as blind. He plays...
Inventor Donates $1M and His Innovative Water Purifying System to Native Bangladesh
A man from Bangladesh who is now a chemistry professor in Virginia spent years trying to find a solution to the arsenic problem infecting...
Happy New Year! Top 10 Good News of 2006
If you missed our Top Ten Good News of the Year, posted last week, you might want to take a look back at some...
Top Ten Good News of 2006!
With casualties in Iraq reaching record numbers, the war in Lebanon punctuating the continuing crises in the Middle East and the ongoing slaughter in...
Dogs Make a Difference for Autistic Children
"Monique Clement said she wasn’t going to cry while viewing a video of her children interacting with a dog trained to help autistic...
Brushing and Flossing Helps Your Heart and Arteries, Too
Can a toothbrush help clean out your heart? Surprisingly, yes. Brushing and flossing your teeth has been shown to be a simple preventative step...
Encouraging Voice Will Never Be Heard Again
The first time Doris Barton phoned me, I was having a bad day... I probably answered by barking my name like a perturbed Jack...
Secret Santa Revealed
The Secret Santa from Kansas City has long brightened the hearts of hundreds each holiday season by handing out hundred-dollar bills to strangers on...
Teen Hailed as a Hero for Teddy Bear Project
People magazine named 16-year-old Taylor Crabtree one of its top five heroes of 2006 for creating a nonprofit that has raised more than $100,000...
Man Wins Nobel Prize Like His Father
Roger Kornberg, a biochemist at Stanford University, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for work with DNA and genes... just like his father before...
Bus Filters Remove Tons of Soot from San Francisco Air
San Francisco area residents can breathe cleaner air in the years ahead, as the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) nears completion of a historic program...