S.African hotel pampers worms to cut waste
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Thousands of earthworms guzzle tonnes of scrap food left over from the tables of the rich and famous at South Africa's plush Mount Nelson hotel, quietly doing their bit to save the planet.
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Using a cocktail of drugs may help doctors more effectively treat three of the world's most common parasitic diseases, researchers working in Zanzibar reported on Wednesday.
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Communities worldwide are finding ingenious ways of purifying water and getting the most out of their supplies.
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THE Ministry of Health has collaborated with the Sandals resort chain to install condom-dispensing machines at its properties across the island, as government continues to put measures in place to fight HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs
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Nearby hotels cater to those seeking to offset frustrations, offering a spa treatment or a workstation for the delayed traveler.
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The World Health Organization urged poor countries yesterday to offer deworming pills to pregnant women after a recent study in Nepal showed a 41
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Tourists visiting Chile's picturesque  port town of Valparaiso have cleaned the town out of a herbal  aphrodisiac called palwen, an indigenous remedy also known as  "Mapuche viagra," according to local media.
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TIRANA, Jul 19 (IPS) - Albania cannot hope to become a major tourist  destination unless it solves its waste management problem. Seeing  this, authorities are wasting no more time in taking action.
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Because of tight regulations enacted by the European Union in 1994, proper waste disposal  has become prohibitively expensive. Enter the black-market trash brokers, who have taken to "port hopping" - moving toxic rubbish along the line of least resistance to underregulated areas in Africa or Asia.
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Medical scientists are using bloodsucking, parasitic worms to treat patients with asthma.
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African health workers aren&#39;t just being lured away by better salaries in rich countries. They are fleeing squalid and unsafe workplaces and staggering workloads.
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VYEBOOM, South Africa -- It takes a certain eye to look at snails crawling over one another and see them as a escargots bubbling in garlic butter, never mind a means for poor parents to feed their children.
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SOUTPANSBERG MILITARY BASE, South Africa  - Clouds of flies swarm the courtyard where some 75 exhausted Zimbabweans sit quietly, munching on loaves of bread and staring through the metal enclosure of their temporary South African home.
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Experts are cleaning up toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast which killed seven people and poisoned thousands.
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MUHANGA, Rwanda  - For a decade, Beata Uwitije never slept in her own bed at home. It was always a police cell, an alleyway, a bar or one of her client's homes.
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Hotels are finding that environmentally conscious features â like the bamboo flooring â are in demand from guests and can save money as well.
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NZ council probes 'psychological impact' of crap job Auckland Regional Council (ARC) has required the inventor of a worm-driven composting toilet to get professional confirmation that his workforce was not "traumatised or stressed" by its crap job, the Sunday Star Times reports.â¦