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ECO-TOURISM has not won many supporters in Russia. Prominent Russian scientists have severely criticised government plans to encourage commercialisation of state-owned nature reserves, says a report

SLOTH bears riding bicycles, leopards jumping through hoops of fire and elephants playing football in the circus ring will soon be a thing of the past. A staggered phase-out of these animals will be

SCIENTISTS have overcome the resistance offered by three species of Indian pulses to conventional genetic engineering techniques, literally at the point of a gun. S C Bhargava of the S K N College

A PROPOSED dam in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, has raised a storm of protest, reports Dewi Sartika. The hydro-electric project is to be sited at Lore Lindu National Park, in Donggala Regency, about

THE controversial tilapia, a fast-breeding African fish, has been surreptitiously used by a company near Madras for pollution control experiments, despite a ban. Although the Union department of

Scientists have discovered an oestrogen derivative that controls tumours and could be effective against other diseases like arthritis

THE Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is uneasy about Russia's enormous oil reserves. A major worry, reports the Asian Wall Street Journal, is the huge volume of Russian oil that

THE expansion plans of Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Paper Ltd (TNPL), funded by the World Bank (WB) to the tune of $75 million, has rung alarm bells in environmental quarters. J Paul Bhaskar, chairperson

An Australian shrub has leaves that mimic its fruit to fool the voracious white tailed black cockatoo

THE sharp decline in frog and toad populations worldwide has disturbed amphibian watchers (BBC Wildlife, March 1994). The findings of the Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force, a network set up