Huge swarms of newly hatched locusts have started their march across the sands of Negev Desert in Israel, eating much of the nation's technologically produced farmland, and teams of exterminators have been working nonstop to fight off the threat, NBC reported.
China has found two more cases of a deadly strain of bird flu not previously found in humans, bringing the number of known cases to nine.
Authorities say a single batch of deep-frozen strawberries appears to have been behind an outbreak of gastroenteritis in eastern Germany that hit more than 11,000 people, mostly children at schools and day-care centers.
Japanese authorities this week released information that paints a more worrisome picture of the ongoing nuclear crisis than the central government has previously admitted.
After a month of searching and testing thousands of vegetables, simple detective work trumped science in the hunt for the source of the world's deadliest E. coli outbreak. The culprit: German-grown sprouts.
German investigators have found excessive levels of cancer-causing dioxin in chicken _ the first such confirmation of tainted meat since the discovery that German farm animals had eaten contaminated feed, possibly for months.
German investigators have found excessive levels of cancer-causing dioxin in chicken _ the first such confirmation of tainted meat since the discovery that German farm animals had eaten contaminated feed, possibly for months.
For one month a year, from morning to night, Dilorom Nishanova grows silkworms, a painstaking and exhausting job. She has been doing it since she was 8.
