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Using flawed arguments,The government is blackballing experts' warnings

Opinions on the extent and scope of the National Environment Tribunal Bill (netb), 1995, were sharply divided at the recently concluded workshop organised by the Centre for Environmental Law, World

Climax is reached when succession proceeds without disturbance and the vegetation type is in complete equilibrium with the environment. As climate appears to be the most important factor in

The World Health Organisation (who) has reported a 3 per cent rise in the incidence of diabetes the world over. The total number of diabetic patients in India stands at 20 per cent, 2nd highest in

A disorder that causes hair to appear an over the body has been traced to a mutant gene

Are the new ISRO 14000 environment standards industry"s gift to a polluted globe, or merely the developed world"s competition killing strategy

Alarm has been sounded by the us Agriculture Department (usad) which, in its crop report for June, says that the world grain carryover stocks for 1996 are about to crashland to a record low level --

Kenya returns to sender a lethal cargo of contaminated milk powder

A new finding suggests that bees may have been around about 100 million years before flowering plants appeared

National budget constraints have forced leading donor nations like the us to cut assistance to developing countries down to almost 20 per cent in 1993-94. But Japan, the world's largest donor, has