Tiger Safari project closed down
For the protection of endangered species of big cat family twelve years back Tiger Safari project was started with the investment of Rs 50 lakh but unfortunately, it has been closed down by the
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Kerala drafts health policy 2000
With provisions for making health care gender sensitive and placing a share of cost for medical education on students, Kerala has drafted a health policy aimed at consolidating its gains in field of
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Central team to assess Rajasthan famine situation
A nine-member central study team left in two groups to Udaipur and Jodhpur in Rajasthan on Monday to assess the severity of the famine that has hit Rajasthan for the third consecutive
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Engineered corn is focus of suit
A class-action lawsuit has been filed that accuses the developer of StarLink, a variety of bioengineered corn that accidentally entered the food supply, of harming American farmers through
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World loses two animal breeds a week
The world is losing two farm animal breeds each week, and 1,350 breeds face extinction, the U.N. world food body said Tuesday."In the past 100 years we have already lost about 1,000 breeds," the
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Largest oil spill in US waters in more than a decade
A rapid response to a massive oil spill on the lower Mississippi River and pure luck have helped limit damage to the environment and wildlife.The US Coast Guard reacted rapidly after approximately
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Notifiable diseases hardly reported in Noida
The medical authorities in Gautam Nagar are poorly equipped to control the spread of diseases, as they have no data on the occurence of even the notifiable diseases.They do not even have sample
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Eleven parks and archipelagos receive United Nations World Heritage protection
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has awarded protected status to 11 natural sites and warned that one listed bird sanctuary is in danger. On November 30 the United Nations Educational, Scientific
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The return of the big cats
Once on the brink of extinction, Brazil's jaguars now have politics on their side : a
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How not to abolish leprosy
Leprosy persists among the world's poor despite a decade of the WHO's best attempts at eliminating it. Will the stalemate ever break? : a
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Water samples routinely falsified, inquiry told
Critical safety tests of Walkerton (Canada) a rural town's drinking water were routinely falsified, the man who did most of the sampling admitted Wednesday."I would say it was a regular event,"
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The Ebola virus
In the last three months at least 340 people have become infected with the Ebola virus in Uganda, and 149 of them have died. Patients die rapidly and dramatically, from shock and massive bleeding.
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US gives $3.5m to free Nepal Kamaiyas
The United States has announced a rescue package of $3.5 million for the rehabilitation of Nepali bonded labour locally called
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TTD plans 120-km afforestation
The Tirumala Tirupatu devasthanams (TTD) which has bagged the prestigious 'Vanamithra award' of the state government this year, has submitted a Rs 10 crore proposal to the centre for expanding TTD's
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EU bans meat-based feed in all animals
European Union governments agreed to ban the feeding of meat-based meal to all farm animals as part of sweeping new measures to combat BSE or "mad cow" disease. They also agreed to exclude from the
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Pfizer, South Africa agree on plan for AIDS drug
Following nine months of often tense negotiations, South Africa's Ministry of Health and Pfizer Inc. agreed on a plan in which the New York drug maker will donate $50 million of its drug Diflucan for
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Summit seeks chemicals treaty
Delegates from more than 120 countries began a week of talks in South Africa on Monday to devise a global treaty that conservationists hope will ban production of some of the world's most dangerous
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World loses two animal breeds a week- FAO
The world is losing two farm animal breeds each week, and 1,350 breeds face extinction, the UN world food body said on Tuesday."In the past 100 years we have already lost about 1,000 breeds," the
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WWF warns of looming collapse in caviar market
Poaching and illegal trade, mostly controlled by the Russian mafia, threatens the sturgeon's very survival and could herald the collapse of the international caviar market, the World Wide Fund for
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Clinton creates vast Hawaiian coral-reef preserve
President Bill Clinton on Monday announced the creation of a vast "Yellowstone of the sea" - a reserve protecting an expanse of Hawaii's pristine coral reefs larger than the states of Florida and