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There has been no discernible change in the acidity of rainfall in the past seven years, according t

Japan's powerful Federation of Economic Organizations urged the government Monday to drop specific p

China's Coal Stoves Cause Pollution WoesAir pollution in China is as bad as it was in develo

Malaysia will amend its fishing laws to allow joint venture fishing projects with other countries, s

The government's proposed military buildup in the arctic will help Canada shed its image as a U.S. "

A Massachusetts oil industry executive says the regional gasoline industry is ''in one of its rare p

A Swedish company has designed a physiological "thermo-skin" that helps athletes keep their muscles

U.S. importation of South African uranium ore and uranium oxide for processing and re-export has bee

Westpac Banking Corp. devised a financing package for the Sydney Harbor Tunnel Project, which includ

Pete Beltran knows that the troubles of U.S. manufacturing have given birth to the belief that Japan

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

The capital goods industry is beginning to recover from its deep recession of recent years, with cer

Fireman's Fund Insurance Cos. says a judge's order that the firm remain in business in Massachusetts

Fierce freight rate discounting and slow tonnage growth sent Carolina Freight Corp.'s second quarter

Wallenius Rederierna (Wallenius Lines) has secured two major contracts for its fleet of car carriers

Belgian researchers have produced a genetically engineered strain of tobacco that resists a leaf-eat

Argentina will move to revive activity at its Santa Fe Parana River grain port under an agreement si

A B-1B bomber - called heavy, clumsy and leaky by critics - unofficially set new aviation records th

Despite low oil prices and a drawn-out civil war, Mozambique is going all out to lure Western invest

Joy Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, said it signed a definitive agreement to sell its compressor busi

On Imports (American workers) are not going to tolerate the unlimited expansion of imports s

893.0 (July 6) Previous day - 883.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in Lon

GENERAL NEWS U.S. auto workers oppose Japanese team concept methods at a GM assembly plant i

A ground-breaking reference work on the U.S. nuclear arms industry was recently released by Washingt

A test to determine whether a fabric fence composed of heavy-woven fiberglass designed to hold back

Five Iranian rubber boats powered by outboard motors attacked a Spanish supertanker last week, punch

A domestic airliner carrying 42 passengers landed 35 miles short of its scheduled destination on a s

West Germany protested on Monday communist East Germany's decision to reduce drastically the amount

Analyst Says BN Stock Good Despite EarningsBurlington Northern Inc., parent of the Burlingto

The Philippine trade secretary urged a Japanese economic delegation to expand trade and investment h

Dodging wayward trucks has become almost routine for workers at the Exxon gas station here, where li

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

The battle over the 49th parallel is the last big fight left for Canadian motor carriers. On

General Electric Co. will pay Taiwan's state-owned electrical utility US$75 mil lion for repairing a

Petroleum Heat & Power Co., Stamford, Conn., one of the nation's largest retailers of home heating o

White-collar petroleum industry workers, who flocked here in the booming 1970s and filled the office

Caribbean Select Expands DistributionTAMPA, Fla. - Caribbean Select Inc. said it will begin

Oilseeds analysts here are downplaying the recent loss of new-crop Argentine soybean sales to the Un

Three officials charged with negligence in triggering history's worst nuclear accident go on trial t

The Federal Maritime Commission extended its deadline for comments on pending retaliatory action aga