UN rebrands radiation
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Danger for dummies In an apparent acknowledgment of the plummeting standard of public scientific education in the West, the UN's nuclear tentacle today unveiled a new danger sign for radiation which must approach the nadir of literalism.â¦
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New York - The United Nations last week unveiled a wide-ranging blueprint to reform the organisation, but found media attention more focused on calls for UN secretary-general Kofi Annan to resign.
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The U.S. government should replace more than 1,000 irradiation machines used in hospitals and research facilities because terrorists could use the radioactive materials inside them to make "dirty" bombs, a government advisory panel has concluded.
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12 dead in toxic e-waste scandal A United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) meeting this week will discuss the growing threat from toxic electronic waste being dumped on developing countries.â¦
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Copyright 2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. VIENNA, Austria  - More than 40 countries with peaceful nuclear programs
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UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon issues a warning to the world.
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New ads targeting animal products aired last week ahead of a UN convention on protected species.
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More than 200 times each day, authorities detect radiation in containers arriving off cargo ships at Port Newark. It's in ceramic tiles, granite, pottery, kitty litter &#151; all natural products made from Earth's elements.
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The United Nations&#39; chief nuclear inspector says satellite imagery shows nuclear-related equipment is vanishing from Iraq. In a letter to the UN Security Council
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (15/10/04) - Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believe that the stripping of several Iraqi dual-use nuclear facilities, from which significant quantities of equipment and material have been removed since the
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UN scientists have delivered their starkest warning yet about global warming, saying fossil fuel pollution would raise temperatures this century, worsen floods, droughts and hurricanes and melt polar sea ice.
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UNITED NATIONS  A year after the bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad killed 22 people, the United Nations remains a target for attacks in Iraq and UN staff angrily allege that major security ...
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UN findings name human activity as 'very likely' cause of 'unequivocal' climate change.
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UNITED NATIONS,  - The United Nations turns 60 in 2005 after a bruising year that has seen the organisation battered and demoralised by a string of scandals that have damaged the UN&#39;s image.
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The global climate debate needs to embrace a "new way of thinking", UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urges.
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A new U.N.-led alliance will work out  global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from  mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and  televisions, the group said on Tuesday.
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It has been reported that United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan is making preparations for a new initiative for a solution to the problems of Cyprus in 2005, and has demanded an allocation for a UN Cypriot office to be reactivated.