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A software programme called Computer Imaging Sperm Selection (CISS) that scientists working with rare animals incarcerated in zoos use to enhance the chances of fertilisation, is now being tested on

Aboriginal communities in Australia are elated over a new ruling by the Australian High Court: on March 16, the Court declared the federal government's Native Title Act, passed in late 1993, valid.

An ambitious Danish green tax has few takers, especially in the industrial sector

Recent measurements show that protective ozone levels in the atmosphere touched a record low early this year

Pakistan is in for a major environmental clean-up. Nudged by a directive from the Federal government, provincial governments have launched several innovative schemes to fight pollution. The Punjab

A mathematical relationship between planets in our solar system holds astoundingly true even for 3 distant planets orbiting a pulsar

The Sri Lanka government has asked farmers, community organisations, NGOs and small and medium scale enterprises to comment on the draft of a revised forest policy before the final policy is framed.

Enriching oceans with iron could help absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas

Helicopters have made mountaineering a less arduous prospect in Nepal, but chopped down the daily earnings of the Sherpas. While tourists can now wing their way up to inaccessible areas, mountaineers

Political priorities in insurgency-prone Kashmir may well override the apparent vigour of the wildlife officialdom to protect the shahtoosh (Hymalayan goat-antelope). Senior bureaucrats of the union