When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, anyone in a pub taking a drag off a cigarette will be breaking the law in California - the first state to ban smoking in
In the remote interiors of the Dahod district in Gujarat, it's jungle raj all over. Illegal felling of trees by timber smugglers and unauthorised cultivation by tribals is evident in several villages
Australian scientists have announced that they have developed the world's first gene map for prawns, as the first step towards developing bigger, faster growing Crustaceans. The team from the
With worsening urban air pollution, experts fear that people living in the megacities may soon have to wear gas masks and filters just to breathe. That's when a nutty idea that is clean and cheap may
The fate of the 25 finance companies that entered into lease deals with REPL Engineering Ltd for erecting windmills has been conclusively sealed. A letter issued by director of the Gujarat Energy
The El Nino weather phenomenon could be causing an unseasonal outbreak of the mosquito-borne dengue fever in Thailand. Cases of dengue fever, which are usually restricted to the rainy season,have
Polluting factories along China's most environmentally damaged river face closure with the arrival of meeting discharge standards. The Central government stipulated in 1994 that all polluters along
The Hong Kong government has drawn up contingency plans if the deadly bird flu, which has so far claimed four lives, becomes an epidemic. Paul So, the health department deputy director, told
A 43,000 year old plant, the world's oldest living organism, has been found in Tasmania. The plant whose botanical name is Lomatia Tasmanica, belongs to the sterile shrub category and can be found
Scttish researchers have developed a bra with heat sensors and an electronic memory chip to detect premenopausal breast cancer. The thermometric bra called Chronobra, developed by pathologist Dr.
