The g7 has decided to establish a "bioterrorism crisis centre' and provide millions of shots to the World Health Organisation's international "vaccine bank' to counter any germ weapon attack by

In October 2004, Down To Earth carried out a survey on people's perception of climate change. We sought replies for the following questions: • What kind of local/regional changes in climate

Is global warming for real? Is it natural, or human caused? Who will benefit from its effects? Suffer? The scientific debate on climate change remains as political as ever

As climate is a complex system

Scientists refuting climate change assert it is not human induced but a result of cosmic influences

Scientists and policymakers may choose to believe global warming is too remote to worry about, a mere projection by a computer that often can t get the next week s weather right. But, show studies, climate change has begun to tamper with ecosystems the wo

More intense monsoons more floods

Earth s life sustaining system may be in peril

Will swell rivers, or turn them dry