The new guinea pigs
Genetically altered animals can produce vital proteins and serve as excellent models to study diseases.
Genetically altered animals can produce vital proteins and serve as excellent models to study diseases.
With technology advancing at a tremendous pace, companies are retrenching unskilled employees. The effect is being felt most in Europe
A unique fishing cooperative that salvaged the wetlands leased to them by the Calcutta Port Trust has successfully fought off attempts to repossess the land for building projects
Colombo is at pains to clear itself of the UNEP charge that it is one of the world's five major dolphin catchers.
Discharge of effluents into the river had caused large scale fish deaths, leading to the curbs
Industrial activity threatens the wetlands of east Calcutta
Norway's experience shows that resource accounting is not enough, political will to change things is just as imperative
In 1993, Newfoundland will see an international conference on fish stocks as a result of a dispute between Canada and Japan and the EC
A new kind of fishing raft is replacing the traditional ones along the Madras coast
The government destroys natural resources; when villagers revive these, it reasserts ownership. This is an official loot of nature
The Kerala government has decided to appeal against two national green tribunal orders that said that the government should take note and adhere to the recommendations of the Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report while approving private and commercial development in eco-sensitive zones. Read more in this September 2013 edition of the Monthly India State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
Burgeoning population and agricultural encroachment in the last half century have erected artificial walls within the Gond tribes. These ethnic groups, dominating the Bastar district, have little social or economic interchange today
This is where it all started. And now, there is no sign of past successes
Under the Lok Vaniki scheme, a farmer can extract benefits from his land by selling its produce, including timber
The founding president of African Academy of Science, <font class='UCASE'><font color=red><b>Thomas R Odhiambo</b></font></font> , has been working to evolve a framework necessary for stimulating technological development and environmental protection i
Experts say the most ambitious river navigation project in South America could ruin the Paraguay Parana river and the world s largest remaining wetland
CONSERVATIONISTS in the UK plan to use explosions and gunfire to scare migrant birds away from parts of a wintering site poisoned by an environmental disaster. They will lay down food in less
Argentina's biggest oil facility and natural gas producer Pluspetrol has come to a standstill following protests by the indigenous Achuar groups in Peru, who say that crude production is
A spill of toxic heavy metals into a river in northern Romania, some 60 miles from the border with Ukraine, has caused the latter to cut water supplies to five of its towns in the Transcarpathian
saving the act: The prime minister's office (PMO) has issued a directive that Union cabinet proposals having a bearing on decentralisation will have to be cleared by the newly-formed ministry of