Applying the brakes
Environmentalists score a major victory as the Supreme Court tightens emission standards in Delhi,
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Axe subsidy, not the bus
<p style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Supreme Court order upholds diesel price hike for bus corporations, but
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AIDS end in sight?
Triple drug therapy provides hope in the fight against the immune deficiency syndrome
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The universe s fate
Astronomers are using a supernova s light to explain the mysteriously expanding universe
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Makes more sense
Pharmaceutical companies are trying to develop drugs to combatfatal diseases by using the uptil now ignored part of DNWs structure
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Green standards put india in the red
Several Western nations have decided to stipulate high environmental standards for the goods they import. The step demands the substitution of several chemicals deemed harmful with ecologically benign ones, and suitable technological modifications an e
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Muckraking
Calcutta comes up with the "most efficient and ecologically benign method" of re using municipal waste and sewage
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No charity at home
Is the individual s attempt at environmental awareness limited mostly to sermonising about big issues?
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Pathogen paradigms
Foresight and planning are necessary to counter the new outbreaks of infectious diseases
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'The aim of the restructuring is to create a lean, cost-efficient secretariat'
DECENTRALISATION is the new watchword at World Wide Fund for Nature International"s (WWFI) headquarters at Gland, Switzerland. A restructuring effort by the management in mid-January created a whirlwind of controversy and confusion in the organisation; 31
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Backs to the wall
Kerala's backwaters are one of its most prized possessions. But they are fighting for survival today, with reclamation for the purposes of development and commerce increasingly choking them off
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To whale or not to whale
Nations for and against whaling clash once again, and fail to reach consensus
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Top of the greens
A new generation of electric cars is moving down the ramp. Running on fuel cell technology, these are being called the eco friendliest cars by far
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The mouth trap
Latest studies on rhesus monkeys point to the risk of contracting the AIDS virus via the mouth
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Citywards ho!
Out of more than half the world population that are wannabe urban Bourbons, larger number of women and children will have to rough it out
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Woes of the world
It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report
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Losing appeal
The book says that common chemicals and plastics may be affecting our hormonal systems, affecting foetuses and our future generations and causing, perhaps, a fall in intelligence
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Sun made, problems
Interaction between the sun and the surface waters of the world's oceans are hiking temperatures
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In the pay of plastics
India s biggest public sector unit is out to ape the West s fashion for unsustainable living
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"Bad TV is better than no TV"
'Welcome to tomorrow' seems to be ARTHUR C CLARKE's motto in life. He was the first to hit upon the notion of global broadcasting networks using communication satellites comsats in geostationary orbits. Clarke, the versatile visionary par excellen