After eight months and 350 million miles, all eyes were on Mars and the car-sized Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft as it entered the Martian atmosphere shortly after 9 am and touched down on the surface at 9:32 pm Alaska Time.
ABUJA, NIGERIA-The environmental restoration of Nigeria’s Ogoniland oil region could prove to be the world’s most wide-ranging and long-term oil clean-up exercise ever, if contaminated drinking water, land, creeks and other ecosystems are to be brought back to full health, according to a United Nations report released today.
BANGKOK — The United States next week in Vietnam will begin cleaning up leftover deposits of the toxic chemical dioxin from the herbicide Agent Orange sprayed by U.S. forces on vegetation during the Vietnam War.
One day after Kofi Annan left his post as Syrian envoy citing increased violence in the country and disunity in the international community, the United Nations is meeting to vote on a resolution drafted by Saudi Arabia.