an oil slick has polluted a two kilometre stretch of seashore south of the city of Chennai. According to police officials this information has been passed on to the Tamil Nadu Pollution

at a a recently held workshop at the Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, a consensus was reached to adopt an eco-label scheme for Indian leather in accordance with international standards. The workshop was sponsored by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's ( unido 's) regional programme for pollution control in the tanning industry in Southeast Asia ( r e po ).

A project to culture human skin for grafting in cases of severe burns has been undertaken at the Deccan Medical College in association with the Owasi Medical Research Centre, Hyderabad, and the

the country's first bilateral lung transplant was performed at the Madras Medical Mission (mmm) in Chennai, on April 26. Experts hailed the nine hour long operation as unique and the "first of

• The Thar desert is fast witnessing a steady decline in its groundwater level. In a recent symposium on "Recent Advances in the Management of Arid Eco-systems" held in Jodhpur, Rajasthan,

Of late, the public and the private sectors saw a great deal of activism by the Supreme Court (SC) and high courts (HC).

The Madras High Court has pulled the brakes on the Kolli Hills hydroelectric power project in Salem district of Tamil Nadu. The court directed the Tamil Nadu electricity board to stop work

With the Tamil Nadu government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signing the final document to bring Madras under the global Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP), key

Scientists are trying to enhance the quality of fish by using a controversial technique and are confident the process will be perfected soon.

There has been a gradual decline in the natural vegetation around Madras. The reduction and fragmentation of the mainly tropical, dry, evergreen forest, also called scrub jungle, has led to the