Auto makers have made a lot of noise about clean car technology for the new millennium. Now the industry must decide whether to roll out cleaner cars this year using technology that could have been
The Union ministry of environment and forests has sponsored a two-month programme for environment education and information for Morolpora, Bandipur, in North 24-Parganas.
A pain-free way of measuring glucose levels in diabetics may soon go on large-scale clinical trials. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, have already tested the device.
The officials of the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai are chalking out plans to reintroduce some of the "excess population of animals" back into the
They are walking for others and with a purpose. Thirty-two Britishers flying across Indian ocean have come down to Garden City, not on a jaunt, but to participate in a walkathon organised to raise
Environmentalist and advisor to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Dr. Rashmi Mayur, has warned of complete degradation in the sub-continent's ecology in the near future. Specifically, South
The US space shuttle Endeavour has returned safely to the earth after a 10-day mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir. The mission that returned yesterday involved a successful docking
An international conference on medicinal plants is to be held from February 16-19 . The initiative for hosting this conference has been taken by Four Bangalore-based organisations-the Foundation for
The role of environmental sanitation in curbing the incidence of Enteric Viral Hepatitis and other water borne epidemics came into sharp focus at a continuing medical education (CME) programme,
A new and yet to be published study by the Central Pollution control Board has found that nearly three-fourths of all ground water aquifers contain coliforms. Nearly a third of them have the more
