In Dunedin, New Zealand, loggers have moved into an important and scenic block of Maori-owned native forest in the Catlins in south Otago and are trucking the wood to Dunedin for firewood. Department
The winter's fierest El Nino driven storm dumped a long night of torrential rain on California, churning up swollen rivers, washing out highways and unleashing mudslides that destroyed many houses
El Nino, that abnormal weather phenomenon which has brought about unusually pleasant winter days of late, has also created an early spring in Korea. Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA)
Hundreds of villagers have been rendered homeless in the Bolan district of Pakistan as flash flood in Nari river inundated the Pahore village in Tehsil Bhag, official sources said. A large number of
In New Zealand tobacconists can breathe easy. The "T" world that has caused such angst is to be allowed to remain in the Yellow Pages. The Ministry of Health sought legal advice on whether the
An understanding to conserve the world's largest butterfly was reached between officials of the Oro Conservation Project (OCP) and the Oil Palm Industry Corporation at a meeting with World Bank
Experts from various disciplines of Indian system of medicines (ISM) have emphasised the need for an action plan for the development and maintenance of the traditional system of treatments of the
The cancer specialist, Dr. Prafulla B. Desai, of the Tata Memorial Centre(TMC), Mumbai, has won the $150,000 Mucio Athayde Cancer prize for 1998 awarded by the International Union Against Cancer. Dr.
There was need for countries to develop non-legislative methods of controlling access to its biodiversity complementing its legislations, according to Ms. Kerry Kate, Biodiversity Convention Officer
The environmental group Greenpeace on Tuesday flayed rich countries for trying to continue dumping toxic waste on poor nations despite an international ban on the practice. Greenpeace said in a
