Witness to genesis
Cosmologists spy on galaxies being born, and conclude that these massive stellar assemblages might have formed earlier than believed
Will it, won't it
Indian meteorologists say the Pacific current El Nio would not disrupt monsoons in India. Foreign experts disagree
Will the gift of GAB be wasted?
Worried about the state of the world's largest underground source of freshwater, Australia gears up to save the Great Artesian Basin from …
Omnipresent Poison
The maximum residue limits for the pesticide endosulfan in soilwater and vegetables from Padre have been breached several times over. But human …
Foisting failure
Haryana's Sukhomajri village exemplifies how government intervention can ruin a successful community-based programme
Swarm warning
Officials claim the locust problem is under control, but unless millions of hoppers -- young locusts -- stalking the deserts are exterminated …
Hypothetical cure
Unlike allopathic medicines, Ayurvedic products are not clinically tested before they are introduced in the market. This raises doubts about …
Cool reception to ambitious programme
Though the government boasts its improved chulha project has exceeded targets, officials admit the programme has been a failure because of lack …
Beyond beginning
A recent finding boosts Darwin's wisdom about the origin of species and questions what is known as 'biology's Big Bang'
Rocked!
On July 4, 1997, planet Mars will see robots crawling about, seeking more evidence of life there, egged on by the extraordinary find of 'life' in …
Hide Burns
Skin diseases and stomach ailments afflict most of the people living around a tannery area in Kanpur - one of the fallout of the failure of the …
Hell in Europe's back yard
Cancer and air pollution go hand in hand in eastern Europe, where an ecological nightmare is still unfolding
After talk, action on renewables
Electricity regulator assures increased returns on investment and uniform tariffs across India
Caught in the wet
Wetland management is drawing increasing flak for advocating misdirected conservation strategies and disregarding local needs
No news is bad news
A dearth of information brought brickbats to the department of wastelands development, which was entrusted the Herculean task of reducing the …
Tonic for the industry, trial for the patients
Industry pundits predict that greater decentralisation for the drug sector will raise production to three times the present level in less than a …
On the trail of the hungry herd
A stray herd of elephants in West Bengal was hounded by villagers and government officials, who feared destruction of their crop. The incident …
A bolt from the blue
If critical air traffic control operations are not beefed up by adequate and modern infrastructure, nightmare is bound to happen in the Indian …
Cultivating a turn-around
Depredations of a virus, public outcry and strictures of the Supreme Court combine to make the aquaculture industry sit up and take note of its …
The economics of science
Scientific research in China has become big business with the nation's economy banking heavily on it for results
Reclaiming clean air
An emissions trading programme, introduced in the US to provide incentives to companies for emission control, could be an effective instrument in …
Sowing less, reaping bare
Yet another controversial move by our environment and forests ministry could ring the death-knell for India's biodiversity
Two hoots to AIDS
A controversial marrow transplant operation in the US, a faulty gene in a dormant strain of the HIV isolated in Australia, the Zinc Finger …
Failing to deliver
Issues pertaining to science and the environment took a backseat during the recently-concluded special session of the Indian Parliament
Back with a vengeance
Malaria is making a comeback. Parasites and mosquitoes have developed resistance to drugs and insecticides and new drugs are too costly and …