Clean up plan seems futile
A massive project holds out no guarantee that it can make river water potable
A massive project holds out no guarantee that it can make river water potable
Nations for and against whaling clash once again, and fail to reach consensus
GENETICS presents a strange dilemma. Manipulations in this field have greatly increased the yields of crops, animals and trees. Witness the green and white revolutions and the large commercial
A proposed blanket ban on scientific prawn culture in Chilika lake is a total let down for the fiskerfolk
Defying an international treaty, Japan encourages its fisherfolk to exceed tuna quotas under the pretext of scientific research
Mad cows on net The newest site where the mad cow disease has struck is the Web. The research group CAB International hassetupahomepage at http://www.cabi.org/whatsnew/bse
Anthropologists at the Nevada State Museum, US, recently unearthed the oldest known mummy in North America, and they found it right on their own shelvest The mummy, known as the Spirit Cave man,
• The Goldman Environmental Foundation, US, recently awarded the annual environmental prize for Asia, worth US $75,000 to M C Mehta, a Supreme Court lawyer who has won about 40 landmark
Its high time the panchayati raj institutions in India reviewed their actual role in spelling out developmental processes
... has been the motto of an erring plant in Karnataka. But recently, the local fisherfolk scored a victory by forcing it to agree to install an effluent treatment plant
After initial doubts over whether the turtles would retain Orissa as the site of their annual nesting exercise, the reptiles return for the second consecutive year
• A recent report made by the Punjab Pollution Control Board has made gloomy predictions for India's two major wetlands located in Harike and Kanjli areas in the state. Indiscriminate
• India's first environmental management system certification BS 7750, equivalent to ISO 14001, the interna- tional environmental standard, was receutly awarded to the Orissa-based Nicco
• The 83rd session of the Indian Science Congress was inaugurated in Patiala on January 3. The conference focused on scientific and technological endeavours for achieving "food, economic and
How shrimp cultivation turned a mangrove forest into a saline desert
Phytoplankton bloom along the Indian coast threatens marine life
An educational charity aims to light up the life of Black schoolchildren by imparting them technical knowledge
Other local associations can also manage watersheds effectively
cargo ships sailing from coast to coast often transport unwanted freight. Marine plants, animals and microbes regularly hitch rides to distant shores in these ships' ballast water, seawater stored
In early December 2007, the country prided itself on providing the world with a road map to check the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5NI. Containing the virus in Maharashtra in 2006 and in Manipur in 2007 gave health authorities sufficient caus