Minimum space requirements for battery hens would be almost doubled under plans outlined by the European Commission. The Commission said financial aid would be available for European Union farmers to
European carmakers have offered voluntary cuts in carbon dioxide emissions from new vehicles in an atttempt to stave off the threat of the European Union imposing stringent mandatory reductions. But
Unocal, a leading Californian oil refiner, has won a further round in its battle with six other oil groups over patent rights to clean burning motor fuel. A federal judge refused to overturn a jury
Boston lawyers are mounting an assault on tobacco companies over alleged harm suffered by restraurant workers from second hand smoke. Advertisements appeared in Massachusetts papers seeking employees
Scientists urged the UK government to restrict smoking in public places, after concluding that passive smoking causes lung cancer and heart diseases. The Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health,
In some rural areas the intensive use of nitrogen fertilisers has increased the concentration of nitrates in drinking water to dangerous levels. This cannot be dealt with by conventional water
They keep anthrax bacteria in the basement of a faded red brick building, not far from the yellow fever virus, the botulism bacteria and some of the hundreds of organisms that cause the common cold.
A new instrument that controls sound levels of amplifiers, the use of which has been approved by the West Bengal pollution control board, met with opposition from performing artistes. The artistes
An asteroid is likely to pass within 30,000 miles of Earth on Oct 26, 2028, and there is a possibility that it would hit Earth, the international astronomical agency (Central Bureau for Astronomical
A controversial new study is challenging a fundamental traditional assumption of human evolution namely that Homo Erectus the most advanced version of our forefathers on Earth a million years ago was
