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Californian scientists have discovered the "human intracisternal retrovirus", which they believe causes a disease similar to AIDS. However, there is another school of thought that believes the new virus to be a distant strain of the HIV.

Uganda has agreed to be a testing site for trials of AIDS vaccines.

Forest products have become a fad in industrialised countries and are used to make a wide range of things, from ice creams to shampoos. For the Amazon tribals, however, this outpouring of wealth has ravished their cultural identity in crassly commercial m

The recent conference in Geneva, held to discuss moving up the date set for phasing out CFCs, got stuck over the question of aid to developing countries

John Major's Darwin Initiative proves too expensive for Britain's exchequer.

While western investors are lining their pockets with Papua New Guinea's rich natural resources, all the government is getting in return is a degraded environment.

The Siberian forests are facing the axe from a Russia eager to top the financial potencial of its timber.

Environment minister Kamal Nath has been caught in the firing line on the Chilika Aquatic Farms project. His order for an environmental impact assessment to be prepared is merely a move to delay taking a decision.

FISH TRADERS of Andhra Pradesh have a good market in far away Assam. Even after paying transportation charges of upto Rs 8 per kg of fish taken to Assam, the traders get to put away a tidy sum for

A RECENT study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine has established that women with osteoporosis suffered fewer fractures after treatment with estrogen. Osteoporosis is a potentially