The world will require 1,330 giga watts of new electric generating capacity in the next 15 years according to Hans Weinrich, head of the Sweden-based Asea Brown Boveri's (ABB) transmission and
'Species 2000' is the latest UN/World Bank venture to take an integrated look at the world's biodiversity. The current tally puts the total number of plants, animals, fungi and
Compressed air energy storage is one of the several energy storage technologies developed for the power industry. There are two separate portions in the storage cycle: compression and expansion.
IN AN apparent move at safeguarding its citizens, the French government began handing out iodine pills to some 400,000 people living near nuclear plants in the last week of April. The act was
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) recently developed a hightech railway locomotive compatible both in the AC and DC modes. The only one of its kind in India, the locomotive has a capacity
A RECENT government decision which will -force power companies in the UK to bring down emissions of sulphur dioxide drastically,- could help large areas of land affected by acid rain to make
THE environment crisis which is threatening to engulf us has forced the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to do a rethink on how to save the natural resources. In a recent two-day
Anthropologists at the Nevada State Museum, US, recently unearthed the oldest known mummy in North America, and they found it right on their own shelvest The mummy, known as the Spirit Cave man,
WILDLIFF conservation in the us received a jolt after the [louse of Representatives passed on April 24, what has been mis- named as the National Wildlife Refuge Improvement Act. For it seeks to
