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The removal of the corneas from the body of an accident victim in France, shocked the public and exposed the legal and ethical failings of the transplant system

Various international fora and mechanisms have been formed to check deforestation, but tropical forest countries have always been wary of them, fearing interference by the North

A new study suggests that the more the number of hosts a parasite feeds on, the more virulent it becomes

Atmospheric researchers are being criticised for selfishly creating panic by exaggerating the consequences of a depleted ozone layer

The Uttar Pradesh government's decision to lift the ban on tree felling in the Garhwal Himalaya has brought on it the wrath of both the Central government and environmentalists

A cure for influenza and a substance harder than diamond: two of the products conjured up by designer science

China's industrial units have become death traps, as entrepreneurs on the run for a quick buck pay little heed to their workers' safety

IN JUNE 1983, the ministry of agriculture recommended certain measures for the protection of the Himalayan ecology, on the basis of which the Uttar Pradesh government imposed a ban on felling of

An American biologist claims that a pregnant woman and her foetus are constantly engaged in a struggle with each other

IGNORING vehement protests by environmentalists, the Sri Lankan government has decided to go ahead with construction of a coal-fired thermal power plant in Trincomalee, on the island republic's