South Korean President Kim Dae-jumg has declared a disaster area parts of the east coast where forest fires have killed two people and destroyed more than 600 buildings, officials said on
An environmental action plan for Chittagong Hill Tracts expected to be launched in June this year for maintaining the ecological balance in the rugged hills as all 18 grassroots and district level
Blood safety is becoming an important factor in combating the global spread of AIDS. The World Health Organization estimates that from 5 to 10 percent of transmissions of HIV, the virus that causes
Various agencies of the United Nations involved in rehabilitation and reconstruction operations in the cyclone-affected districts are all set to accelerate their ongoing programmes in the state, said
The image of the rugged and robust Canadians took another hit recently when a whole segment of Canadians previously thought to be able were labeled disabled. Their tragic affliction is smoking. In a
There is no convincing scientific evidence that taking large amounts of Vitamin C, Vitamin E, or the nutrients selenium and beta carotene can reduce the chances of getting cancer, heart disease,
Hoping to starve the World Bank of the money it lends, activist groups have pledged to organize a global boycott of its most important fund-raising tool, World Bank bonds. The groups will begin by
The Apatanis, one of the 26 or so tribal communities in the North-eastern, for centuries, have practised a scientific system of irrigation of their terraced paddy fields of irrigation of their
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has stepped up an emotional Africa has stepped ip an emotional controversy over his country's response to AIDS, saying Africans should chart their own course on
The State Pollution Control Board has found the noise level above the permissible limits in the central Lal Chowk and its adjoing areas and three main hospitals in Srinagar.
Not so long ago, BP Amoco was being feted by "ethical investment" funds and environmental groups. In spite of being one of the world's biggest purveyors of fossil fuels, the firm has made some
NASA's first satellite dedicated to observing the earth sent back its first images taken by instruments on baord, the US space agency has announced. The satellite Terra, launched into orbit in
The dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur, which have set up common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) and individual treatment plants to handle hosiery pollutants, grapple with the problem of
Though the summer has barely begun, the number of gastro cases stands at the 6,000 mark. The number of other water, air and vector-borne cases are also on the
A scheme for processing of minor forest produce through self-help groups of tribals has been launched in Bastar district of Madhya Pradesh. Under the scheme, envisaging expenditure of Rs 16 crore,
U.S. medical researchers have said that some cancers could be detected, years before the onset of symptoms, by testing a patient's saliva or urine for mutated DNA particles. Scientists at Johns
European scientists are growing bones in the laboratory, with the goal of developing replacement grafts for people whose bones have been injured in an accident or who are suffering from arthritis,
With a swooping virtual flight over San Francisco and a dramatic demonstration of invisible pollution over India, Nasa on Wednesday released the first images from its new climate
Two persons were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation from Gol Market here for allegedly possessing a leopard
Wildlife aboding in Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in the Far-western Terai struggle to survive. And so do some people living outside. Seventeen different commissions and committees that were supposed
