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Latest satellite observations provide an answer to the long standing query: What is the source of cosmic rays high energy radiations that are received on earth?

Wood-based firms want to convert forest areas to their own use for raw material. In doing so, they ignore the fate of millions of rural poor, who are dependent on forest lands.

The proposed energy tax has run into heavy weather in Europe, despite strong backing from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

Both government and voluntary agencies are helping to spread biogas technology, which can provide clean fuel and enriched manure as well as improve sanitation standards.

The Sardar Sarovar project was first conceived by the British authorities in 1931. It remains incomplete six decades later.

Scientists are relying on the emperor penguins to find out the state of sea resources in the inhospitable Antarctic region.

A plan to restrict import of bananas from Latin American countries is being opposed tooth and nail by the Germans.

The issue of World Bank funding for the Sardar Sarovar project has elicited a variety of responses within the country and abroad.

Computers are poised to make it possible for people to speak to each other in their own languages.

In the wake of a spate of accidents at a leading chemical manufacturer, German authorities are reviewing safety procedures in the industry.