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A Society for Protection of Heritage and Culture has been formed to save monuments from further destruction and to keep a close watch on illegal exports of antiques. President of the SPHC Usha Kumar

Environmentalists say depleting forest cover over India may have less to do with grazing and population pressure, than with new policies linked to liberalisation. The Forest Survey of India conducts

Sindoor contains harmful lead oxide and bindis contain mercury sulphide - both of which are highly toxic compounds, Mumbai based Consumer Guidance Society of India said in a report. These two

The row over the Tamil Nadu Government's action of writing a letter to a Japanese funding agency against extending Rs 84 crore financial assistance for a drinking water supply scheme for Bangalore,

Raising the prospect of tighter pollution controls on cars, an Environmental Protection Agency study questions whether air quality goals can be acheived without requiring still cleaner automobiles.

A section of an Antarctic ice shelf as big as the District of Columbia has broken away from the continental ice mass, perhaps in response to decades of gradual warming in the South Polar region. The

M P which is recognised as a tiger state, has 22 per cent of the world's total number of tigers and half this population inhabits the state's vast acreage of forests which remain vulnearable

The Karnataka Government, which about a fortnight ago, made a formal representation to the Centre seeking fresh assistance to combat crop failure in several districts, submitted a fresh memoradum

Medical researchers looking into a puzzling outbreak of brain tumors at an Amoco Corp Research Centre say they have made an important step towards finding the cause of the problem. Since 1989, 17

In a surprise move, the Mukerji Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MEF) has recommended that forest land be given to industry for plantations. This comes as a welcome relief to the