The benefits of prawn farming in the coastal areas far exceeded its negative impacts given prominence by environmental activists, a new study by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
Brazil's President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso now has on his desk new legislation that finally gives the country's environmental agency a modicum of power to enforce environmental laws. A coalition
Consumers who buy energy efficient vehicles and electric utilities that install high technology generating equipment would benefit most from Clinton Administration's package of tax incentives to curb
The Government of Finland has announced new contribution of about $750,000 to UNSO for UNDP's Trust Fund to Combat Desertification and Drought. The new funding will support UNSO's newly developed
The shift from a subsistence-level rural setting to a planned urban set-up has come as a severe jolt to the inhabitants of Kuksheth village. Ever since the Herdillia Chemicals plant came up at
At least 35 white-sided dolphins have died and more were in trouble after becoming stranded on the eastern US shores of Cape Cod. Rescuers who spent Thursday trying to save dozens of dolphins headed
While afforestation schemes drain out crores of public money every year without much success, a tribal village has shown that the key to creating a forest lies in mere protection of the area.
The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are thinking of jointly financing the RS 800-crore integrated water supply and sewerage project for the city. This is the first time that the World
new treatments? : In a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers compared brains taken at autopsy from 11 patients with multiple sclerosis and four people who did not
