International Business Machines Corp. said its researchers have developed a hard disk that can hold 11.6 billion bits of data per square inch of disk space, more than double the previous highest
Some relief came the way of Van Gujjars - a Muslim pastoral nomadic tribe living in the forests of the Shivaliks and Himalayas of Garhwal region- as several MLAs assured to raise their problems in
Six government ministries and agencies in Japan will jointly draw up water-conservation policies, including restrictions on the use of ground water and promotion of rainwater use, officials said. The
A practical low-cost technology for detoxifying contaminated water and soil has been developed by researchers from Yokohama National University and the Kanagawa Environmental Research Center in
Nihon Bayer Agrochem KK, a producer of agricultural chemicals, is purifying mercury contaminated soil at its former plant in the western Tokyo suburb of Hachioji in $49 million project. Obayashi
Report: An obsession with concrete construction, dictated by greedy engineers and contractors, has led to the Gomti river rising to a dangerous level, threatening the trans-Gomti area. While the
By seeking to impose severe penalties on promoters and their agents for filling up ponds to build housing complexes, the Left Front government in West Bengal only suceeds in indicting itself. Much of
norwegian environmental engineers say that at least half a million people on the Kola peninsula in northern Russia are drinking water contaminated with raw sewage and heavy metals. They warn that
