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While the risk of a nuclear power plant disaster is very small, state and Federal disaster agencies owe it to people who live near reactors to help them guard against the health dangers of a nuclear

More than twice the number of peregrine falcons considered necessary for the recovery of the species are soaring over North America, leading the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service, to announce a

HC : The Madras High Court today held that 'fish farming' could not be construed as 'agriculture' merely because the basic requirement except tilling of the land was almost similar. In his order, Mr.

A state level agitation against the alleged expansion activities of prawn farms along the coast would be organised on August 28 by Campaign Against Shrimp Industries, a voluntary organisation.Ms.

Three Gorges dam can not protect the region : Probe International issues a special report today dismissing the argument that the Three Gorges Project could have protected the Yangtze basin from

Persons filling up ponds to build houses, and their agents, will be fined Rs two lakhs or sentenced to two years of imprisonment or both. The state government's latest directive says that the

The State Council, China's Cabinet, recently issued an emergency cicular calling for greater protections of forest resources and forbidding the opening up of new lands at the expense of

Everyone's care and share : Amid reports of deteriorating ecological environment in a number of regions in China and under the pressure of population and economic growth, a growing part of the

Ambitious efforts to solve energy shortages and control flooding have transformed China into the world's largest hydro-power market. China surpassed the United States in terms of total capacity of

A super high-yielding hybrid rice whose per-hectare output may be 20 percent higher than the present hybrids will be born in China by 2000. As a result of breakthroughs in breeding technology, the