Carter Sees End to River Blindness in Americas
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on  Monday expressed optimism that an ambitious campaign he is  spearheading to eliminate river blindness disease in Latin  America would succeed by the end of the decade.
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NEW YORK  - Scientists may be closing in on a remedy for a common degenerative condition of the retina called retinitis pigmentosa.
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If U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton ever thought their brothers caused them public relations headaches, they might feel lucky compared to Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.
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LOS ANGELES  - President Jimmy Carter is the subject of a documentary that will follow him across the United States as he promotes his latest tome.
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EJIDO LA LAGUNA, Mexico  - Julian Rosales' farm is within a stone's throw of one of North America's biggest rivers, but the Mexican landowner fears he will not be able to sow his crops next year for lack of water.
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As he approaches 80, Jimmy Carter could be enjoying retirement &#151; teaching Sunday school, relaxing with family and reflecting on a life that's taken him from the peanut fields of Plains, Ga., to the White House and back. Instead, Carter continues to use his status as a former president to promote peace, health and voting initiatives across the globe at a sometimes startling pace for his age.
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ROME, Jun 29 (IPS) - Water is not the stuff of business, it is a basic  human right. Hama Arba Diallo, outgoing executive secretary of  the Convention of the United Nations to Combat Desertification  (UNCCD), is convinced that the United Nations is about to  formally recognise this principle, possibly by 2008.
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John Maringouin is  filming a documentary about endurance swimmer Martin Strel, who  began a planned, 70-day swim Thursday, starting at the source  of the Amazon River in Peru and following the river until it  meets the Atlantic Ocean at Belem, Brazil.
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WASHINGTON -- Former President Jimmy Carter says that despite changes designed to eliminate voting problems in Florida - where the disputed 2000 presidential election was decided by only a few hundred votes - conditions for a fair election in that state
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A repetition of problems that plagued the 2000 US presidential election is likely, former US president and veteran elections monitor Jimmy Carter said yesterday, charging that &quot;basic international requi-rements&quot; for a fair vote are missing in Florida.
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NEW YORK  - Scientists may be closing in on  a remedy for a common degenerative condition of the retina  called retinitis pigmentosa.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter,  who won a Nobel peace prize partly for his Middle East peace  efforts, said on Wednesday he would head an observer mission to  monitor the Palestinian presidential elections next month.
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ROME, Jun 29 (IPS) - Water is not the stuff of business, it is a basic  human right. Hama Arba Diallo, executive secretary of the  Convention of the United Nations to Combat Desertification  (UNCCD), is persuaded that the United Nations is about to  formally recognise this principle, possibly by 2008.
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November 30 - PORTLAND - The federal government on Tuesday unveiled its new plan to protect Columbia and Snake River salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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By JOHN CARTER  A longtime Jacksonville University professor was recently recognized for sharing his love and understanding of nature.
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GUATEMALA CITY, March 12 -- President Bush began touring rural villages and ancient Mayan villages here Monday as he brought his "social justice" tour of Latin America closer to home and tried to showcase ways that the United States works to uplift its neighbors.
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A team of University of Virginia researchers is working to increase the drought- and disease-resistance of the black-eyed pea, a staple of the diets of roughly 200 million people in west and central Africa.