China is trying to shift its energy supply away from coal and toward natural gas. According to plans announced recently, China is to increase natural-gas production eightfold in 17 years, to account
H. Paul Johnson and Dudley Foster, the pilot of their three-person research submarine are hunting the smallest, most elusive game imaginable, in one of the most hostile environments on the planet.
As charges mount that poor planning and official neglect worsened the disastrous flooding in China this summer, the government has made the unusual admission that its land use mistakes are partly to
Parasites invaded the water supply for the second time in a month, forcing officials to advice 3 million Sydneyites to boil their tap water. The director general of the New South Wales Health
Nike Inc., the world's largest maker of athletic shoes, says it will purge its products of the widely used plastic substance polyvinyl chloride, which it called " a threat to humans, and the
The Ahmedabad Fire Brigade completed a massive day-long operation to remove dead fish from the Sabarmati even as water samples taken for examination allegedly revealed presence of acid. Firemen
Political pressure is being brought on the BJP government to prevent the National Power Corporation (NTPC) from executing a 208 MW project in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, in collaboration with an
A Nagpur-based scientist came up with a new technology and cotton can now be grown in an eco-friendly way without using chemicals and insecticides. The new technology, which utilises farm-recycled
Mosquitos that found their way into the London Underground when it was built 100 years ago are evolving into a new species, it was reported on Wednesday. A report in BBC Wildlife magazine said the
HC : The Delhi High Court has held the Union and the Delhi Governments responsible for hundreds of dengue deaths in the Capital in 1996. The ruling said it was beyond comprehension why the two
