The Asian Specialised Meteorological Centre in Singapore has discovered that the probability of La Nina occurring next month has risen from 65% in August to 75% this month. Malaysia's Minister of
Needed medicines are hard to find, and state-of-the-art treatment is rare: Cuba's health system, the jewel of Castro's revolution and pride of the Third World, is in grave condition. In many ways, it
The power ministry is planning to introduce a cess on all power plants across the country . A bill to this effect, amending the Electricity Act, may be moved in the next session of
As nearly as climatologists can tell by studying measurements dating back to the 1850s, the earth's average surface temperature has risen by about one degree Fahrenheit over the last century. But
There is an emerging AIDS catastrophe in Cambodia unilike any seen outside sub-Saharan Africa. Cambodia has already surpassed Thailand as Asia's most infected country, and in less than half the time
As prices of farm products dwindle, and with them rural incomes, European farmers are redesigning their farms to take in tourists, a practice known as agritourism, and governments are helping them to
The fourth conference of Parties of the Biodiversity Convention has taken several lanmark decisions, and some of them have major implications for India .
Neuroscientiststs at Stanford and Harvard have been able to show that neural activity in certain brain regions predicts what experiences will be remembered later. The study at Stanford involved
The three day workshop on soil fertility experiments being held in Kathmandu, Nepal have come out with eight major recommendations, chief among them is transfer of technology from researchers to
Indian environmentalist Anil Agarwal, the director of the New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has been appointed a member of the World Commission on Water, which will prepare a
