Nasa's announcement last week that the Lunar Prospector space-probe has detected large quantities of water on the moon transforms it from sterile lumps of rock into a potential oasis and rocket
Minister for Panchayat raj and rural development Kodela Sivaprasada rao on Friday said that the state government, with a view to increasing the water table in the drought-prone areas of the state,
A US based firm has obtained process patent in piperine, a byproduct of pepper. Piperine, extracted from the fruit of pipernigrum or black pepper, is a composition widely in use in traditional
Greenpeace expressed outrage at a decision by the New Millennium Experience Company to use the environmentally damaging gas, HFC, in the Dome's air conditioning system. This decision has been made
Chief Justice K Sreedharan and Justice A R Dave of the Gujarat High Court have issued directions to the government and chief inspector of factories in a public interest litigation file by the
ICI was hit with a $500,000 fine, one of the UK's biggest ever environment penalties, after the chemicals giant pleaded guilty to polluting groundwater. The Environment Agency, the pollution
One of the UK's experts in the spread of infectious diseases said he had consistently been refused access to the UK government's information database about BSE, or "mad cow disease". In written
US scientists have found long sought proof that people release potent chemical signals that can have profound effects on other people. The research settles a 40 year debate about whether humans
Haze has returned to Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah on Borneo island dur to a spate of local fires and worsened by a prolonged drought, a report said on
The relocation of at least 1.2 million people to make way for the Three Gorges Dam in Central China is off to a poor start, calling into question the official timetable for filling the dam's
