Uncertainty prevails about ban on forest cutting
Uncertainty prevails among official circles and people in Peshawar involved in forest business about the status of ban on forest harvesting in the Frontier province. Ban on forest cutting had been
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Atmospheric pollution affecting public health
Atmospheric and aquatic pollution caused by industrialization and mechanised transport in different parts of Pakistan are affecting public health badly. Studies undertaken by the Environment and
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Biologist urges labelling law to require details of transgenic foodstuff
A prominent American biologist yesterday suggested that Thailand should launch a labelling law requiring producers to inform the public of their genetically-altered foods so that consumers have a
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Policy Address Debate 10-year war on waste
A decade-long strategy is to be unveiled today in an ambitious effort to change Hong Kong from a wasteful society to world leaders in waste reduction. Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands
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First time unlucky
Women who suffer a first heart attack are in significantly more danger than men of dying within a month or of being readmitted to hospital. This is according to research carried out in Spain by a
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Living hand to mouth
A slew of recent and upcoming papers pinpoint how talking with your hands can unlock what Robert Krauss professor of psychology at Columbia University calls "lexical memory." One study, for instance,
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World Bank moots rainforest plan
THe World Bank at UN climate talks in Buenos AIres unveiled on Tuesday a plan outlining ways that world forests could be both preserved and profited from in the battle against global warming.Together
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Work continues on birth control vaccine
Work on the controversial birth control vaccine has not stopped and criticism against it "is not based on fact" its developer G.P, Talwar told the on-going global conference of immunologists here on
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Fingerprints will detect diseases in next century
The 21st century will be known as "the healing century." A simple blood sample or even a fingerprint may help detect diseases in another 10 years, said famous Australian immunologist Sir Gustav
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Legionnaires' toll grows and grows
The toll from Victoria's worst outbreak of legionnaires' disease continues to rise. Tests have confirmed two more cases of the disease and another three possible sufferers were admitted to hospital
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Students find it's rewarding to be green
Altona's lacklustre railway station is to be given a facelift, the local wetlands are about to be replanted and regenerated and a Murray River island is to be saved from infestation by weeds. These
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U.S gives China more time over wood rules
The U.S. has extended a deadline for China to comply with new regulations aimed at preventing the spread of the Asian long-horned beetle. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the ban on untreated
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Red-Green wrangle settled
Eleven years of wrangling over a giant open-cast mining project west of Cologne was resolved, ending the threat of government crisis in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. After intervention
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Today's pacemakers are smart and safe
Arne H.W. Larsson's last billion heart-beats have made him a medical marvel, a pioneer on one of the great triumphs of cardiology and electronic engineering. Forty years ago this month, Mr. Larsoon,
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Burma sees hope in rice
Burma, once the rice bowl of Asia, is renewing efforts to revive its languishing agricultural industry by developing large production zones for rice for export and enlisting foreign expertise and
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Hepatitis vaccine through food
An NRI scientist in the US is set to introduce a vaccine against Hepatitis B. This vaccine promises to be safer, more cost-effective and easier to administer than the conventional vaccine. Dr. Yasmin
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Dispute over plant patent
While the health policy planners in India have turned a blind eye to the efficacious tratment of jaundice by phyllanthus amarus, a medicinal plant found in the country, a United States-based research
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Killer whale makes a comeback in a Pacific
The end of commercial whaling in the southern and South Pacific oceans produced big increases in population of some species, but it also had led to more reports of gruesome attacks by killer whales,
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Discovery astronauts retrieve Spartan
Two days after setting it free, space shuttle Discovery's astronauts retrieved a satellite brimming with hundreds of blazing images of the Sun. The smooth capture yesterday was a vindication of sorts
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Rusia launches U.S. communications satellite
Russia today successfully launched a U.S. communications satellite from its space centre in the Central Asian nation of Kazakstan, a news report said.The Panamsat 8 satelllite blasted off from the