The New Caledonian Lirikeet, a small green bird with violet-blue thighs and a yellow-tipped tail, may be the latest of the world's parrots to become extinct, according to experts.
The credibility of the experiment reporting the cloning of Dolly the sheep from the cell of an adult ewe is being challenged by a leading biologist, and other scientists agree that the experiment
The Manipal Health Foundation has successfully tried out an advanced technique for treating terminal heart disease on a patient in the Bangalore. The technique aorto coronary caval shunt has become a
Among the numerous problems pointed out by many of the visitors to this hill station over the years has been unmitigated noise pollution caused especially by the blare of loudspeakers in the towns of
A $100 million attempt to save the marine environment and boost dwindling fish stocks got under way in Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park in Sai Kung in spectacular fashion, almost a decade after the idea was
A year after the Clinton administration moved to tighten protections for wetlands, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has drafted controversial new guidelines that opponents say would instead open up
The Gujarat government has charged the Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) going back on its own earlier policy and rejecting environmental clearance to the captive jetty project proposed
Composting of waste collected from the Koyambedu market complex to produce manure has been taken up by Exnora International at the multi-approach compost yard at Thiruverkkadu, which was inaugurated
Farmers of Sanand, Dholka and Daskroi talukas of Ahmedabad district are locked in a battle with their neighbours from Kheda district over use of Sabarmati river water for irrigation. While farmers
Two seprate groups of researchers in US are proposing to look for neutrinos(the most abundant particles in the universe) under the earth's crust. The earth is liberally salted with radioactive
