Veterans of Gulf War have complained for years of a cluster of ill defined and often unexplained ailments they think are related to their service. Many believe that their wide ranging symptoms can
Nearly 1200 sheesham or tali trees, as commonly known, have dried up over the past two years in Dehra sub-division of Kangra diwstrict. Highly placed sources in the Forest Department revealed that
Karen villagers at Ban Watchand in Chiang Mai's Mae Chaem district of Thailand have opposed a Forestry Industry Organisation plan to log the pine forest, saying it would lead to ecological
High air pollution levels were recorded at roadside monitoring stations for more than half of last month, with Causeway Bay the most polluted area in Hong Kong. But levels for August remained below
Minister of State for Water and Power Capt (retd) Halim Siddiqi expressed apprehensions that the water supply situation to many parts of Karachi would aggravate if the Sindh government did not make
The Ministry of Co-operative Development has launched an action plan to set up " Co-operative Agricultural Villages" countrywide to stimulate rapid agricultural development in Sri Lanka through the
Hundreds of fish have been killed by illegal dynamite fishing off Sai Kung in the past two days in Hong Kong. More than 600 fish, each about four centimetres long, have been killed
Celltech, the biotechnology company, said that its antibody treatment for Crohn's disease-a serious bowel condition-could reach the US market up to a year earlier than expected after the regulator
The early gentian, a jewel-like purple flower found only in the UK and facing extinction, has become the first plant to be championed by a company under the government's Biodiversity Action Plan.
The Umatilla Chemical Depot, which covers 20,000 acres of land of arid eastern Oregon, contains 3,717 tons of material, stored in 89 highly secured earth-covered bunkers. No chemical shipments were
