Scientists have successfully eliminated trachoma — the world's leading preventable cause of blindness — in a Tanzanian village.
... at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, along with partner Gyanesh Pandey, started a project that provides low-cost electricity to two villages in Bettiah by burning the rice husk.
One of Alaska's most eroded villages is getting more than $3 million in state aid to help it relocate to higher ground as Alaska tries to cope with the effects of global warming.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A news report says villagers and forest guards have beaten to death a protected Royal Bengal tiger after it killed three people near the world's largest mangrove forest in ...
... have proven to be extremely successful in protecting the social and economic boundaries of the village.
Kamutuk
When Indonesia was still a colony, the government maintained a policy of indirect ...
... and 2005. They took rectal swabs from 535 people in Bartica and the remote villages. They also asked the local inhabitants about whether they had ever been exposed to chloroquine or fluoroquinolones, ...
Eating bats is popular among elders in at least one village in northeastern Thailand, in part because "they do wonders for your libido."
Environmental terms "electrosmog", "eco-village" and "carbon footprint" make it into the latest edition of the Chambers Dictionary.
India on Saturday offered money to villagers to vacate wildlife reserves in a bid to save the country's tigers from extinction, officials said.
... Borders (EWB) student chapter at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently returned from a three-week trip to Kenya, where they worked to improve drinking water for a rural farming village.
A small village in India has about a hundred pairs of twins, mostly same sex and 90 percent born in the last 20 years. No one can explain the phenomenon.
By helping a Chinese village out of poverty, Pan Wenshi protects the endangered langur.
... in Bangkok and colleagues investigated the spread of dengue virus infection in rural Thai villages. Identifying cases by screening schoolchildren with fever, the researchers then found that infection ...
... town of Rutshuru in eastern Congo. But the
woman still recognised the men who descended on her village as
members of the Mai Mai ethnic militia. Their preference for wearing
animal skins and amulets, ...
Bulls were slaughtered, traditional costumes donned, and thousands welcomed on Obama's inauguration day at his father's home village in East Africa.
