NEPAL

SRI LANKA

Bangladesh

Less iodine lowers IQs

QUARRYING CRUSHED

Cancer Hospital

Beset with problems

Threatening monsoons

Tribals in danger

Devil's alternative

SRI LANKA

Leading the polluters

Road to disaster

Protecting wetlands

GERMANY

SRI LANKA

The new breadbasket

Tanakpur barrage cleared

Bleak future

Fish blindness

Water supply faulted

Timber producers seek equity in trade accord

At a recently held conference on tropical timber, producer nations demanded temperate forests be included in any agreement on international …

All work and no foreplay

Plans are afoot to rejuvenate an overworked elephant population in Myanmar through artificial insemination

US abandons plans to test weapons

In the face of severe congressional opposition, the Clinton administration has extended its ban on testing nuclear weapons

Genetic engineering

Promising initial tests of new rice strains with high potential for farmers have spurred biotechnologists to press ahead with the search for …