The Brazilian government is opening its timber reserves in the Amazon rain forest to commercial loggers. Unable to stop the rampant illegal logging, Brazil hopes to combine economic potential with
according to Russian scientists who have pioneered a method that uses sniffer dogs to count Siberian tigers, conservationists have overestimated the number of the endangered species. Last year, a
If a comet merely ten-thousandth the size of Hale-Bopp strikes the Earth, it would create an explosion ten times as powerful as all the nuclear weapons in existence at the height of the Cold War,
a study funded by the British department of health has found plutonium in the teeth of children throughout England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The study shows that the radioactive
Plans are being finalised for the world's largest radio telescope by astronomers from India, Australia, Canada and three other countries. The telescope
poaching of bison, sambar and spotted deer in Nagarahole National Park, Mysore, has come to light following the arrest of two tribals. The racket has been busted close on the heels of the seizure
according to a study printed in the British medical journal, The Lancet, industrialisation has brought a host of diseases, from cancer and brain tumours to depression. It says that
