Thakarsibhaisavalia, 58, a farmer from Pankhan village, may not have cried 'eureka', as Archimedes did, but he was intelligent enough to realise that he had stumbled upon something extraordinary: a
Industrial effluent, a major contributor to river pollution, can be made safer by emphasizing the use of organic elements and a slower but steadier rate of discharge during the manufacturing process,
The Indian state of Orissa has scored top marks for its regulation of the electricity sector in a survey of Asian utility regulation carried out by the Asian Development Bank and made public at its
The toxic spill in southern Spain has cost millions of dollars in crop losses and left thousands of acres of farmland barren for the next 25 years, the Confederation of Farmers and Livestock
Britain could be vulnerable to catastrophic flooding without a significant increase in funding for the nation's flood defences, flood defence officials warned. Geoff Mance, water management director
Determined to keep efforts about second hand smoke dangers from mushrooming, the tobacco industry mobilized a counter attack in the mid-1980s to systematically discredit any researcher claiming
A threat to minorities health : In a report that afforded President Clinton the perfect opportunity to renew his call for comprehensive tobacco legislation, the surgeon general, David Stacher, has
Liggett & Myers Inc., smallest of the big five cigarette makers in the United States, agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department's criminal investigation of the tobacco
Akinori Ito, an anti-smoking activist, is angry. While American cigarette makers face tough restrictions at home, they are making a killing selling their deadly products in Asia, he says. So Mr. Ito
Norwegians deemed insane or mentally retarded were used in U.S. backed radiation experiments during the Cold War, a retired senior health official asserted. "People were used as research subjects to
