Restoring 'natural quiet' to the Parks
The U.S. Park Service, in a reversal of nine decades of policy, is moving to limit the impact of noisy, polluting machines in its parks.The agency has an ambitious goal: to protect or restore a lost
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NTPC's effluent purging plant
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has successfully activated Orissa's first effluent treatment plant to arrest surface water pollution and coal ash effluent discharge into river
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Bee mite puts New Zealand on high alert
New Zealand's horticultural sector is on high alert following the discovery of an exotic bee-killing mite that has the potential to devastate the country's exports of apples, pears, vegetables,
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Tobacco advertising ban faces court challenge
A European Union ban on tobacco advertising will face a challenge in the European Court of Justice from Germany and four tobacco companies, willed on by publishers arguing that the ban represents a
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Shareholding campaigners to press BP at annual meeting
A multinational alliance of environmental groups will attend the annual meeting of BP Amoco to try to halt plans to drill for oil in a remote area of Alaska. The oil company is trying to open up to
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As operations on the unborn increase, so do the ethical issues
Two hospitals in the United States are offering a new treatment where surgeons have begun operating before birth on fetuses, hoping to forestall damage during pregnancy to the brain and nervous
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Shree Baidyanath launches diabetes control medicine
Shree Baidyanath Ayurved Bhawan Ltd which reported a turnover of Rs 170 crore in 1999-2000, has claimed a breakthrough in control of diabetes by launching Madhumehari, a herbal medicine. Madhumehari
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Insurance cover for HIV positive patients on cards
Insurance cover for HIV-positive persons may not be a far cry in India. The Government has kicked off discussions on the issue with public-sector insurance monoliths General Insurance Corporation
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Task forces to monitor drought relief in Rajasthan
A day after the Pradesh Congress president , Ms Girja Vyas, criticised the Gehlot government, the chief minister constituted a high-level committee under his chairmanship and formed four task forces
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Use of eco-friendly products advocated
The world is already a small place, make it smaller. This is the mantra which the President of the World Environment Foundation, Dr Madhav Mehra, advocates. Speaking to The Statesman this afternoon,
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Headaches may herald heart attacks
Dizziness accompanied by severe headaches, allied to a temporary loss of speech and sight, could herald an imminent stroke, warns the Hamburg based initiative "Healthy eating and living" , with
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Biotech firms must sell GMOs to consumer
European biotechnology firms won a legal battle last week to keep genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on supermarket shelves, but they still have to convince consumers of the benefits, an industry
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CZA set to de-recognise zoo
With another deadline closing in and the authorities having failed to comply with norms, the 100-odd-year-old Maharajbag Zoo in the heart of the city once again faces the threat of
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HC issues directives to beef up public environment hearings
In a significant judgment, Gujarat High Court's Justice M S Shah and Justice R R Tripathi have issued eight directives to the Gujarat Pollution Control Board and the government to make Environmental
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Satellite discovers colony of live coral off Kutch coast
Scientists at the Gujarat Ecological Society have made an exciting discovery in the near-pristine waters off the northern shores of the Gulf of Kutch: live coral. The recent discovery was made
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Experts advise culling of neelgai
Culling of neelgai through licensed hunting and seasonal killings, as it is done with kangaroos in Australia, is being strongly advocated by wildlife and agricultural experts. The move follows rapid
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Border firing affects migratory birds near no-man's land
For the winged visitors borders have no meaning but the intermittent firing on Indo-Pak border has scared the seasonal visitors over the years. The number of migratory birds visiting Gharana Wet Land
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Efforts on to identify polluting units
After facing flak for its inept handling of the situation by the Supreme Court, the Industries Department of the Delhi Government, in association with the central Pollution Control Board(CPCB), has
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Rajasthan to regularise 1,112 slums
Putting up of slum colonies on land belonging to the Railways, Forest Department, hospitals and Waqf Board, as well as private land has resulted in a delay in their regularisation by the Rajasthan
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Internet site opens for blood donors
Offering a cure for such agonising moments when just one right person could save a life, a free internet site that links us to hundreds of voluntary blood donors has opened.The www.Thebloodbank.Org,