Reindeer travel restricted this holiday by fears of fatal disease
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Wilson usually makes a fair share of his livelihood during December, taking his animals to Christmas events around the Southeast. This year, his business has been hurt by travel restrictions from states trying
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A new study challenges the notion that terminally ill patients can somehow hold on until after a holiday such as Christmas, their birthday or another major event in their lives.
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A sleigh and eight tiny reindeer would have been a more reliable way to travel this holiday than the nation&#39;s airlines. While delays due to weather are unavoidable, it&#39;s hard to understand the numerous cancellations
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As local officials struggled to account for the dead and missing, another challenge began to loom: heading off disease.
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Dec. 21 2004 -- Despite tales to the contrary, a new study suggests that people dying of cancer can&#39;t intentionally postpone death to survive through a holiday or birthday.
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Mother Nature delivered a bone-chilling Christmas to much of the nation Saturday, but holiday travelers made it out in droves despite record snow that shut down highways two days earlier in the central states.
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NEW DELHI: With thousands of bodies rotting and infrastructure in tatters, authorities and medical relief workers fear an epidemic and severe shortage of food supplies along south Indian coastline and in Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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The island paradise Bali will be off limits this holiday season. If your travel plans include Indonesia, you would be wise to cancel your trip immediately.
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A national ban was imposed on movement of cattle, sheep, pigs and other livestock to prevent a further spread of the disease.
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BANGKOK : Bird flu fears in Thailand prevented passers-by from helping four people injured in an accident between a drunk-driver and a pick-up truck full of chickens, rescue officials said on Sunday.
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Internal memorandums appear to prohibit some government biologists from discussing global warming issues while traveling in countries around the Arctic.
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The officials released few details and refused to say where the possibly diseased animal was found. They said it would be four to seven days before more could be confirmed, a delay that livestock industry
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Researchers have some sobering news during this festive season: Americans are more likely to die on Christmas Day, the day after Christmas, and on New Year&#39;s Day than on any other day of the year.
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Eskimos in the Arctic are worried about changes in the wildlife resulting from climate change and the gradual increase in contaminants.
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Â·  Animals on second Suffolk farm infected Â·  Restrictions on livestock movement eased
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A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.