Lambs to the slaughter
The Philips report into the origins of BSE (mad cow disease) and its human equivalentk, VCJD, was a cautious, unhysterical document. But if the release of the report last week was meant to help calm
The Philips report into the origins of BSE (mad cow disease) and its human equivalentk, VCJD, was a cautious, unhysterical document. But if the release of the report last week was meant to help calm
In 1998, 16% of the world's coral reefs, in a swathe stretching from Brazil to the Indian Ocean, were severely damaged by what is known as "coral bleaching". One of the results of the ninth
In a radical shift of stand, the World Bank has decided to promote private sector participation in a big way in order to mobilise investments of a whopping $65 billion, needed over next ten years,
If the Capital has begun showing a self-defeating disrespect for greenery, Greater Noida is emerging as a promising disciple. It's official now. The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority has
Around 2,500 cattle have been flown to Kosovo since the beginning of October as part of an Emergency Farm Reconstruction Project funded by the World Bank and the Netherlands and managed by the UN
The Save Ganga Movement has adopted the Gandhian principle of non-violence in an attempt to save the river and its tributaries from environmental pollution. The group has decided to hold a rally at
If there is one global company that has come to symbolise crop biotechnology, it is Monsantoi Co.But the maker of Roundup, the world's No. 1 herbicide, had managed to stay out of the glare generated
Four teenagers from Madhya Pradesh have come to the city to campaign to save the tiger.They intend to travel on motorcycles across a distace of 1,300 kms starting from Nagpur in Maharashtra to
Representatives of 15 countries have urged Japan, the world's largest consumer of whale meat, to halt its research whaling, Kyodo News Agency reported on
MCD:In an emergency meeting held on Monday the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), passed a resolution not to seal any non-polluting industrial
The Gujarat state health department is concerned over a leaflet that say's the government's pulse polio drive is a conspiracy of World Health Organisation and the Vatincan to spread AIDS. The
Long-term expousure to low levels of pesticide may be a cause of Parkinson's disease, according to research published. Scientists at Emory University, Atlanta, have produced all the characteristics
The spread of the western diet and couch-potato lifestyle has transformed diabetes a "disease of affluence" that now affects 5 per cent of adults, into one of the world's worst and fast growing
For the people of Berlin, it is not the best time to be feeling sick. Last week, some 4,000 of the city's medical practices were closed, as doctors launched a week long protest against government
After a long stand-off between the Greenpeace International and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), on the effluents discharged by the Common Effluent Treatment Plants(CETPs), the GPCB reportedly
Socially active parents in Mumbai will giver their children a novel treat in celebration of Children's Day this year. They will make the citizens of tomorrow see the inevitable connection between
The newly sworn-in government of Uttarakhand has locked horns with the Union ministry of environment and forests with the latter calling for intervention of the Union home ministry to clarify its
Two organisations supposed to fight the poachers are not tired of fighting among themselves. The Project Tiger and the World Wildlife Fund are once again caught in a war of words even as tigers fall
The Supreme Court today issued contempt notices to the Delhi chief secretary and the commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for non compliance of Court's orders regarding shifting of over
Biologists in El Salvador said they had developed a bacteria that fights the propagation of mosquitoes that spread dengue