The world becomes less wonderful
According to Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University, all tropical glaciers are retreating at an accelerating pace. They are, he says,"an indicator of massive changes taking place".
Now a winter wind can blow in an income
Wind farming has become a useful diversification for farmers and landowners in UK at a time when more conventional methods of earning a living from the land are struck in the doldrums. The tall turbines with their slowly wheeling rotors are an archetype of environmental and political correctness.
Putting cancer to sleep
Scientists believe it could be possible to lull cancer cells into a state of everlasting sleep. A team of scientists at the Paterson Institute in Manchester are now investigating whether it is possible to use a chemical "lullaby" to check this uncontrolled growth in cancer cells.
How and why of earth's biggest extinction
Researchers analysis the chemistry of ancient deposits in China and Japan concluded that a space rock three to seven miles across smashed into the earth about 251 million years ago, the time of the Permian-triassic extinction event. The study appears Friday in the hournal Science. In what has been called …
A tale of three polluted rivers
For the people of Bhadravati town the silver lining is distinctly missing from the dark cloud of toxic coal dust, sulphur gas and air pollutants from the Mysore Paper Mills factory which hovers perennially over the MPM labourers' quarters. Their anguished complaints to the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, the …
Ecologists threaten to go on strike
The local environmentalists have threatened to go on a hunger strike if the procedure for releasing funds for the catchment area treatment plan around the Chamera Hydroelectric Project (Stage-II) is not streamlined soon.
Dolly cloner makes breakthru with cow
PPL Therapeutics, the firm that cloned Dolly the sheep, revealed on Friday that it had succeeded in turning a cow's skin cell into a heart cell, in a breakthrough that could curtail controversial research on human embryos.
331 HIV positive cases in State
The Health MInister Dr Kamala Kalita today informed the Assam State Assembly that altogether 331 HIV positive cases have been detected in the State so far.
Jojoba plantations in Rajasthan wasteland
The two mother plantations of the high value industrial crop, Jojoba established in 110 hectares of wasteland in Rajasthan four years back, have come of age. Developed on the technology package obtained from HAIGUD, Israel these plants raised within the stipulated period through vegetative propagation, are available for commercial plantation …
MoU signed for waste-to-power project
After many fits and starts, Chennai Corporation's ambitious and path-breaking waste-to-power project took the first step forward on Friday with representatives of a private firm and the civic body signing a Memorandum of understanding (MoU).