A new treatment for skin cancer made from the sap of a common garden weed has proven effective on 71 percent of basal cell carcinomas (BCCs). In phase II test results released this week in Australia, the PEP005 Topical gel cleared up the most common type of skin cancer in just two applications on two [...]

The ozone layer is showing signs of recovering, thanks to a drop in ozone-depleting chemicals, but it is unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels, researchers said on Wednesday.
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“We now have some confidence that the ozone layer is responding to the decreases in chlorine levels in the atmosphere due to the leveling off and decrease of [...]

Child labor is on the decline — especially in Latin America — and its most egregious forms could be eliminated within the next decade, a U.N. agency said Thursday in a report it called “cautiously optimistic.”
The International Labor Organization report, titled “The End of Child Labor: Within Reach,” states that between 2000 and 2004 the [...]

“It appears as of this moment that the blanket ban on the blogspot.com domain sites has now been lifted. This has been confirmed by various sources (bloggers) in Pakistan.”
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In a setback to the city’s efforts to curtail graffiti, a federal judge ordered the city yesterday to stop enforcing its ban on the possession of spray paint and broad-tipped markers, saying the law unfairly singled out a narrow age group.
Judge George B. Daniels of Federal District Court in Manhattan, who issued his ruling over [...]

More and more public transit systems are making the jump to clean energy:

The new buses are the first in Maine to run on natural gas, although the seasonal Island Explorer service in Acadia National Park has propane-powered buses.
Portland isn’t alone in turning to buses that run on natural gas. Steve Linnell of Maine Clean Cities [...]