The Sixth Extinction
IN THESE interdisciplinary times, biologists are equally at home with political theory. Garrett Hardin's essays, Life Boat Ethics and The Tragedy of the Commons constitute 2 of the major political
IN THESE interdisciplinary times, biologists are equally at home with political theory. Garrett Hardin's essays, Life Boat Ethics and The Tragedy of the Commons constitute 2 of the major political
THE protagonists of "art for art's sake" have been humbled in all ages by the vast majority of artists, who have responded and reacted to their immediate social, cultural and political environs. It
The urge to be close to nature guided Madeleine Slade, who came to be known as Mira Behn, throughout her life
The vast grasslands in USA are finally making a comeback
The government is basing economic policies on rough calculations of the value of trees
There are various forms and faces of pollution today, and believe it or not, light is one of them. Yes, the concept of light pollution is changing our views on astronomy and the environment
The powers of local government in the UK derive from acts of Parliament -- not from the Constitution -- and can be amended to suit the wishes of the central government. The future of local
It is known for its ability to render birds sterile, enter the food chain, persist in its original form without degrading for a long period of time, disrupt the reproductive system and is suspected
The us Senate recently voted down an old and controversial ban on oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (anwr). This win for the Senate, supported by President George W Bush, was
A VULTURE is really a stork and albatrosses belong to the same super-family as the flightless penguins. This is what US ornithologists, Charles Sibley, Jon Ahlquist and Burt Monroe have concluded
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the Indonesian island of Java in the early hours of May 27, 2006. More than 135,000 houses were destroyed and an estimated 647,000 people were
E-mail as PIL Treating an e-mail as a public interest petition, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently issued notices to the state government. The case resulted after the court's chief justice,
• The highly endangered bird kharmore ( lesser florican ) has been sighted in village Tarkhedi, about 70 kilometres from Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh. • India has joined an
• A review by C Gopalan, president of the Nutrition Foundation of-India, New Delhi, attributes the high incidence of coronary heart diseases in Delhi to increasing air pollution. To promote
Human threat to biodiversity
green flag to blue lady: The Supreme Court, on June 5, 2006, gave the green light to the French cruise liner S S Norway, a k a Blue Lady, to enter Indian territorial waters and permitted it to
<p>Toxics Link and India International Centre cordially invites you to a film screening and panel discussion on</p> <div> </div> <div class="rtecenter" style=""> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>The
All living things begin life as a single cell, and one of the most intriguing puzzles for biologists is to understand how a particular cell knows into which part of the body it must grow
In Vietnam, an astonishing array of species, some never before encountered by humans, are being threatened by deforestation and an illegal trade in wildlife. However, the government is waking up to the need for preserving this heritage. But are the refor
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