China plans to use desalinated seawater to combat water shortages in coastal areas, planning to produce up to 800 million to one billion litres of water per day by 2010. A plan issued by the finance

Buzz over tiger trade

Worth emulating?

In 2006-2007, a bamboo species will flower over vast swathes of Mizoram, Tripura and Assam. When bamboo flowers, it dies; usually a famine follows. How prepared, asks nitin sethi, is northeast India this time? Can they turn dis

How China’s growing wood imports are affecting its neighbours

Of nitrogen dioxide

The cyclist, who has ruled Chinese streets for decades, is fast becoming an endangered species in the country, thanks to sweeping globalisation. Shenzhen China Bicycle Company, one of the biggest

seawater remedy: Hyderabad-based IVRCL Infrastructures and Projects Ltd, a company that specialises in water treatment systems, has bagged a Rs 900 crore seawater desalination project to end

India sounds caution; nations building drug stockpile

Asia to have its first cross country linkages of fragmented habitats

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