A team of four U.S. veterans who are now in business school in Massachusetts have teamed up with farmers they met while serving in Afghanistan to help boost their incomes by by bringing to market the most coveted and expensive spice in the world - Afghan saffron.
A class of drug currently being used to treat leukemia has the unexpected side-effect of boosting immune responses against many different cancers, reports a new study. The drugs, called p110δ inhibitors, have shown such remarkable efficacy against certain leukemias in recent clinical trials that patients on the placebo were switched to the real drug. Until now, however, they have not been tested in other types of cancer.
There are two camps developing throughout the world. One dwells upon how bad everything is: we are all in trouble; the economy is crashing; after Global Warming we won't have enough food and water (or too much water); the spiraling war in Iraq; and a whole platter of other problems that continue to get worse. […]
They are all like a second family to a letter carrier in Glendale, Arizona. That's why he delivered a hand-written letter to each one on his route last week.
What was once a turtle graveyard is now one of the largest leatherback nesting colonies in the world, thanks to a woman who grew sick of sea turtle carcasses littering the ground and launched a crusade to help end the slaughter of the gentle giants.
Ever since the night 10 years ago, when Oscar Aranda, a biology student out of college, witnessed the gruesome death of a sea turtle killed for its eggs and meat, he has patrolled Puerto Vallarta's beaches as an unofficial keeper of the sea turtle maternity ward.
400 volunteers on the Caribbean island of Bonair ensure that each year the endangered loggerhead sea turtles hatching on the beaches make it safely to the waves. In one location two year ago the babies were killed after they walked the wrong way, confused by airport lights. This year a human wall was created to block any light except the bright ocean view, which drew them safely home.
After five years of delay, the federal government today finally proposed to more than 739 miles of critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles on their nesting beaches along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
For the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Walmart Foundation will donate $25 million to support organizations that aid in disaster recovery.
In honor of National Yoga month, we've pulled together some hidden gems that will make your experience before, during, and after yoga much more enjoyable.
Watch this video and practice feeling the emotion you would have if you won the lottery.
Construction workers erecting a building also built a bridge of sorts to a little girl in the hospital room window.