Thousands of residents of the Indonesian city of Samarinda have fallen ill because of thick smoke from forest fires in East Kalimantan Province. Visibility in the city dropped to 100 meters Sunday,
The detection of 37 malignant malaria cases in the Calcutta city has led the Calcutta Municipal Corporation to set up an expets team which is conducting an anti-larvae drive. CMC technicians examined
A creative, aesthetic and energetic approach to deal with environmental problems was initiated in the Doon Valley recently the "Greenwave '98", a festival to celebrate life and
Long island sound may someday turn out to be an environmental success story revealing the steady restoration of the Hudson river. But it will require a greater effort by New York city and other
A new wonder drug, which could simultaneously cure cancer in blood, central nervous system, lungs, ovaries and the breast is on the cards. And the onus for this is on T. Ravikumar whose thesis
expert: If champagne continues to remain a typical French wine and Scotch Scottish, no amount of American arm-twisting will be able to snatch basmati' from India's lap, noted agriculture scientist
A group from the Centre for Environment Education sighted dugong (sea cow) near Bet Dwarka. Dugong is the most endangered marine mammal. There was a time when dugongs were found in abundance in the
Appalled by mounds of garbage in Sri Lanka's capital, a university teacher develops a novel way of recycling waste. A Buddhist monk spearheads a reforestation project to protect the environment in
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority proposes to commision a series of documentation studies of the city's heritage precincts, including the Bandra Village, Dadar's Khodadab
