College students from Texas State University-San Marcos and Lingnan University in Hong Kong discussed culture differences and environmental issues during a recent video conference.
In 2008, 36.1 million people died from conditions such as heart disease, stroke, chronic lung disease, cancer, and diabetes. Nearly 80 percent of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries.
A waste hauling company was fined that amount in connection with the 2007 death of a pedestrian, Anne Smith, when one of its trucks backed over her in Brighton, England.
Unions and safety organizations around the world are marking Workers Memorial Day 2011 on April 28.
Twenty-five years after the accident at the Ukraine plant's reactor four, more than 3,000 people still work at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on decommissioning work, managing nuclear material, and building the new structure to encase reactor four.
EUROCONTROL, 77 airlines, and 10 regulatory authorities participated in the April 13-14 simulation conducted to show whether European aviation is better prepared for a major volcanic eruption in Iceland.
Lord Young's report proposed that employers have to report injuries only if they cause seven days of lost time, rather than the current three. The society says this is a bad idea.
John Nelson, chairman of the London-based real estate firm Hammerson plc, will replace Lord Peter Levene when the latter retires in October 2011.
Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan hailed the agreement reached last weekend as paving the way for effective response during future influenza pandemics.
FAA is taking this action after an incident at Reno-Tahoe International Airport when a controller fell asleep while a medical flight carrying an ill patient was trying to land.
When the European Food Safety Authority published its opinions April 8 on 442 proposed health claims for food products, it rejected 80 percent of them.
When the agency opened its Los Angeles office April 8, representatives of the FBI, Secret Service and LAPD were present.
Consumers can now search for food and other product recalls easier and quicker on the Food and Drug Administration's website as search results now provide data from news releases and other recall announcements in the form of a table. That table organizes information from news releases on recalls since 2009 by date, product brand name, product description, reason for the recall and the recalling firm.
The European Chemicals Agency made the 1.1.3 version of Chesar available as a free download on April 6. It allows registrants to create full Chemical Safety Reports.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the Ministerial Forum on Offshore Drilling Containment and said 13 countries and the European Union had been invited to send representatives.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's team has discovered pieces of the Airbus A330 that crashed in June 2009, killing all 228 people aboard, raising hopes that its flight recorders might be recovered.
"Global LT has always been an advocate of helping within the community and with organizations such as the American Red Cross to support those who cannot help themselves," said Kristin Lambert, global marketing manager.
The U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, BARDA, announced the $231 million, five-year contract on March 31.
The British insurance market's CEO calls them "solid" results despite a year of significant claims from earthquakes and floods. He said new EU requirements for insurers on capital adequacy and risk management are an added challenge.
A European Commission white paper proposes this, envisioning a more efficient transport system involving roadways, air, and shipping to move freight and people. Greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by half, it forecasts.