Thousands of trees and crops spread over more than a hundred acres have been destroyed by industrial waste overflowing from Muradnagar's Ghhijarsi Drain, which has been clogged with effluent from a
President Clinton asked Congress to spend $1 billion in the year 2000 to buy more land for national parks and other conservation purposes, possibly including private holdings within public forests
A new study reports that world food production is at risk from farming methods that have degraded soils, parched aquifers, polluted waters and caused the loss of animal and plant species. The report
Almost any day now, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service will announce, in response to a petition from the National Wildlife Federation, whether it sees sufficient cause for a nine-month study
About 11 per cent people in the country have been suffering from goitre, according to a survey report of UNICEF conducted in 417 thanas of the country. More than one lakh people in greater Rangpur
Cannabis will be available on prescription in Britain in three years, doctors predicted yesterday, as the first official trials to test the drug's therapeutic effects were approved. A spokeswoman for
Cambodia's shattered health-care system is being slowly rebuilt. But its future is
The panel of senior Forest officers, constituted on the directives of Supreme Court to probe into illegal quarrying and mining in Shivpuri has,prima facie, established blatant violation of law in the
Afghanistan's three year drought is scorching the earth and killing its children. Now millions of refugees are pouring into camps that offer little food, water or medical
Global efforts to control a tuberculosis emergency risk failing unless the disease, the top infectious killer of adults, is contained in Asia, the World Health Organisation warned recently. Gro
The United States and three Lain American countries have signalled they will resist the speedy creation of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel on their banana row with the European Union,
To develop new technologies for recycling of plastic waste and for setting up an application centre for creating scientific 'wealth out of waste' and improving waste management techniques, an Indian
Canada has pledged to spend C$120 million ($78 million) over the next 10 years to cut emissions from automobiles and industrial plants in the wake of an agreement signed in December with the United
The Delhi Government today surveyed 970 small-scale industrial units in the central and northern parts of the Capital and sealed 24 of them for not adhering to pollution
Jolted by the Gujarat earthquake, various ministries of the Central government are working overtime to give final shape to the proposed disaster management authority.
It appears from the revelation of experts that there is hardly anybody left in Bangladesh who is safe from a particular type of abdominal disease that can lead to many other severe ailments,
The British Government is to launch a new investigation into claims that a rare cancer is killing servicemen who witnessed Britain's nuclear weapons tests in Australia during the 1950s. The Ministry
A National Regulation on Wetland Conservation is being drafted and will be submitted to the State Council for approval by the end of this year, said Wang Hongjie, an official with the Department of
The number of migratory birds at the Dhaka Zoo lake has been declining drastically over the years, according to a waterfowl census report of International Union for the Conservation of Nature
Scientists in Sweden have identified for the first time the parent cells that give rise of many and maybe all of the different cell types in the adult brain. These neural stem cells, as they are
