Spying from space, U.S. sharpens focus
Anyone wondering where US military investment is headed need look no farther than the next generation of spy satellites that are being built now and will start going into orbit in 2005. The estimated
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Scientists find key to long life
A common hormone based mechanism seems to regulate the ageing process in a variety of organisms, scientists said in a finding that raises the possibility that hormonal therapy could add decades to
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Amnesty report nails Internet service providers in China
A report by human rights watchdog Amnesty International released on March 29, unveils the sinister role that global Internet service providers have played in China to help the government curb freedom
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USEPA should regulate GHGs, says US Supreme Court
in one of the most significant of environment cases, on April 2, 2007, the us Supreme Court ruled that the country's environment agency had the authority and responsibility to regulate carbon
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Report to the people 2012-13: UPA Government
In the 'Report to the People', released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi on the fourth anniversary of UPA-II, the government presented figures to highlight growth in
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University of Rhode Island fined $800,000 by EPA
The University of Rhode Island said yesterday it agreed to pay $800,000 in penalties and improvements after U.S. authorities found a raft of environmental violations on its campus. The U.S.
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A safety hazard, says report
An internal report prepard by the Delhi Government, based on functioning of environment - friendly CNG buses in the Capital, has said that it poses a safety hazard not only to the passengers but also
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Panel told to take close look at CNG standards
The Supreme Court of India directed the Bhure Lal Committee (an expert committee constituted under the environment protection law) to examine the existing standards for CNG vehicles including
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India uses better diesel than other countries
Despite the Supreme Court pegging the percentage of sulphur content in fuel for vehicles plying in Delhi at 0.001 per cent, the quality of diesel sold in other countries is far inferior. Besides,
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More bad news in store for Kutch
Drought, cyclone, earth-quake.... the list of miseries of Kutch seems to be endless. Unfortunately, one more grave news awaits Kutch. This time, it is ground water. With scanty rains and no other
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Gondal civic body's Narmada function stirs up a hornet's nest
Even as the Gondal nagarpalika has not yet paid Rs 53 lakh, collected as provident fund for its staff, to the regional provident fund commissioner's office, the civic body chose to spend Rs one lakh
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Narmada waters: so near yet so far
With the Mahi-Narmada, waters being supplied twice a day and for over two hours each time, Barvala (Ghelashah) of Ahmedabad district with a population of 20,000 should not have nay problem. However,
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CNG demand assessment unrealistic, says Naik
Petroleum minister Ram Naik today criticised the Delhi government for the ongoing transport crisis saying the state government had failed to make a realistic demand assessment of compressed natural
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New field guide points to presence of flower power sin the bleakest of urbania
How many commuters have noticed the bursts of pink cockscomb along the Panvel-Kurla rail run during the monsoon, or the purple railway glory? How many of those spilling our of Churchgate station or
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A Board to keep watch on Delhi's environment
The Delhi Chief Minister, Ms. Sheila Dikshit, today announced the decision to set up a high-power Environmental Protection Board to prepare an environmental development plan for Delhi with particular
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German-led group wins New Delhi subway contract
A German-led consortium won a major contract to build the underground portion of a light-rail system in India's sprawling capital city of Delhi, which is currently gripped by a bus crisis that
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Facts fudged
The uk's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has been insisting that the issue of climate change is "very, very critical', and environment secretary Margaret Beckett claims that the country is a world leader
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Shrinking lake creating a threat in North Africa
Near the dead centre of North Africa, where water has long been scarce and long-term drought is making it scarcer yet, one of the last large water bodies, Lake Chad, has shrunk by 95 per cent since
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Florida to set up world's largest butterfly research centre
At a time when many natural history museums are scaling back their entomological departments, an unusual private donation will enable the University of Florida to build the world's largest research
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Workshop on water project
The Australian deputy High Commissioner to India, Mr. Bryce Hutchesso, on March 22 launched a peer consultation workshop on the Australian-assisted Bangalore Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation