The West Bengal government will soon come out with its first biotechnology policy, laying emphasis on revenue generation from the agriculture and food processing industries. A vision committee

"Banjar dharti kare pukar, vriksha laga karo shrinagar"--this was just a slogan a few years back, a cry of the barren land simply unheard by people in general. For watershed development was supposed

Denmark's parliament on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for the government to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Treaty on global warming by a sizeable majority. In the 179-seat house, 88 voted for recommending that

Scientists have expressed concern over the consequences of global climate change which has resulted in the accumulation of green house gases like carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. On the

The first chink in the European Union's united stance on fighting climate change opened this week when Italy said it was unhappy with a draft declaration on the Kyoto protocol, EU diplomats said

Mountain glaciers, which are more sensitive to changes in climate than polar ice, have been found to have been receding over the past decade, following research by the United States Geological Survey

Impurities trapped in ancient glacial or polar ice and used by researchers to draw up a picture of past climates can actually migrate considerable distances, providing false data. A team of

Experts have told a conference on climate change that the planning, design and construction industries are risking billions of pounds of potential and avoidable damage if they continue to ignore the

Children in the US suffer lower IQ levels even at acceptable levels of lead in the blood

Let the Bhure Lal Committee decide on what qualifies to be a clean fuel, says the Supreme Court