Experts urge national priority for shore areas
Among steps recommended to save the marine environment of the Bay of Bengal region is involving local people in coastal development planning.
Nepal industrialists blame blinkered policies
Industrialists in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal deny they are to blame for the degradation of their environment and blame it instead on the …
Gory repast
Researchers now say that cannibalism is not a myth but was practised since the early days of human evolution
Free trade regime in fetters
Internecine wrangling in Europe and the US has hindered the establishment of the World Trade Organisation, which intends to bring about a sea-…
Reviving memories of a revolutionary
The peasant uprising in Mexico was in the name of the legendary Emiliano Zapata, the guerilla hero of the Mexican revolution.
An ocean of life
A new ocean has been discovered, that too on one of jupiter's moons, opening up the possibility of extraterrestrial life
Intelligent ancestors
New evidence on an ancient human species, Homo erectus, sheds light on their technical ability and capacity to use symbols for communication
Bloody charges
Fresh charges levelled against some French scientists and politicians for allowing untreated blood transfusion have taken the country by storm
Embryo research gets a new lease of life
The US government is spurring on embryo research that might provide crucial treatment clues to ailments still evading cures
Cellular phones and shanties
Post-communist Siberia has hardly any paved streets, but is brimming with cellular phones and $40,000 jeeps
Heated fracas over forest fires
The conflicting views of environmentalists, foresters and local citizens are hindering the formulation of a coherent forest policy in the US
Dead silence on AIDS
The recently-concluded AIDS conference did not hold out even the slightest hope for those afflicted with the disease
Fuel fracas
An US Environment Protection Agency decision has added fuel to the fire in the row between the American oil industry and ethanol producers
Technological juggernaut loses speed
Endless red tape and public hostility to technology have raised fears about the future of Germany's technological sector
Sand-bagged over cash
The international convention on desertification is plagued by differences of opinion on financial resources and funding mechanisms
NGOs play crucial role
The involvement of non-governmental organisations is essential for achieving sustainable development objectives
Bidding low for first-ever US emissions auction
Most of the permits to pollute set up for auction by the US Environmental Protection Agency could not be sold, as the bidding failed to reach the …
Divorcing charity from voluntary work
A British government report recommends stripping voluntary organisations of their charitable status.
A few rotten NGOs
...have create enough of a stink to taint the rest of the much-vaunted 'Third Sector', says a government-funded body
Problems with bio-safety
Concerns about the world's indigenous peoples were conveniently sidelined as bio-safety centrestage at the recent biodiversity meeting in Nassau
Mite but mighty!
The key to unravelling the mysteries of the earth could actually lie in the functioning of organisms so small that a million of them could be …
Now, it is Jupiter's turn
Yet another discovery in a series of unfolding spatial dramas propels Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, into spotlight
For a better tomorrow
Unlike the first United Nations conference on climate change, the recently concluded second meet was marked by a desire to give the planet a …
Attaining autonomy
Tribals in India have finally succeeded in achieving their long cherished ambition of self rule
Celestial guest
Hale-Bopp, the brightest comet of this century, promises to shed new light on the birth of the universe