Mekong's miseries
A new regional treaty to usher in dams on the Mekong river has drawn flak from environmental groups
A new regional treaty to usher in dams on the Mekong river has drawn flak from environmental groups
CHINA has been literally flooded with trouble. Coping with torrential showers reportedly the heaviest in 100 years was bad enough; the bursting of a river dike compounded the problem.
THE ministry of environment and forests is planning to introduce a proposal to treble the existing water cess rates at the current monsoon session of Parliament, following demands from
Community based risk assessment and abatement is a must in the age of expanding business opportunities
Jonas Salk, the man who humbled the dreaded polio virus, was that rarest of scientists, the "unconventional upstart"
Observations support the hypothesis that thousands of comets are present in a belt on the periphery of our Solar System
The recent Atlantis Mir docking in space, only the 2nd of its kind, is the first tentative step towards Mars
...especially in the gigantic unorganised sector, and suddenly the labour fringe becomes the mainstream
THE chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulation Board (AERB), A Gopalakrishnan, has urged the media and public to take a sensible view of the accidental leak of radioactive waste from the Waste
Atlantis and Mir did an intimately interlocked fandango for 5 days, and its crew of 6 Americans and 4 Russians sprinted through an impeccably and precisely scheduled series of 28 experiments, 15 of
Texas A&M University researchers have reported finding DNA traces in the pigment used in 3,000-4,000 year old cave paintings discovered in Texas (Science, Vol 268, No 5210). Paint samples
The recent radioactive water leak in Tarapur has caused a furore and caught the authorities by their neck
Environment 1995 Version describes succinctly and lucidly how the ecosystem work, how matter and energy move through the ecosystem, and how the population dynamics affects and is, in turn, affected
Recent government moves in Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe to monitor NGOs and curtail their rights are being given a once over
Keeping the standard kilogram - a 4 cm high and 4 cm wide platinum iridium cylinder in Paris - clean is a formidable task. The cylinder has to be kept free from dust and contaminants like
Although the prime minister's programme to lay the foundation stone at the 710 mw Koel Karo hydel project on March 5 was shelved, the anti-dam lobby demonstrated its muscle by gathering at Torpa
Membranes with pores fine enough to filter molecules
AS the date for the United Nations (un) conference on women -- in Beijing in September -- approaches, the Vatican is chafing for a repeat showdown. It has released a statement spitting fire and
Uranium deposits have been found in "fractured controlled mineralisation" in granite rocks near Tshundapalli and Mullapalli in the Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh. While such deposits have been