Hospitals and emergency services were on alert to deal with a second heat wave this month in which temperatures are expected to top 40 degrees Centigrade throughout the weekend before beginning to

Warnings that fertile topsoil is flushing down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico are based on mistaken beliefs, a geographer said yesterday. In fact,

Turks blame govt : The full horror of the Turkish earthquake began to emerge yesterday as the death toll reached 6,300 and the blaze at the Tupras refinery threatened to engulf the town of Izmit.

Nearly 2,000 people evicted from Dhaka slims staged a protest rally here on Thursday as Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina Wajed announced a package of resettlement

An extremely common industrial fishing method, known as bottom trawling has the same devastating impact on the ocean bottom as clearcutting forests has on the Earth's surface, according to series of

The Centre has asked the state governments to take advance steps for the acquisition of land for the completion of the remaining seven schemes of the first phase of the Ganga Action Plan (GAP).

The success of the Pinelands National Reserve has become a matter of national priority, U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said this week in an interview with the Courier-Post. Babbitt, hwo

Flooding and mudslides caused by days of torrential rains have killed eight people, damaged roads and destroyed homes in Northern Honduras, officials said Sunday. The same rains have

The powerful earthquake in Turkey has claimed 3,479 lives and injured 16,782 people as of 2:30 p.m. (1130 GMT), the government crisis centre said in a communique at Ankara on Wednesday. The Centre

Sprawl makes creeks spill : It came as little surprise to anyone with a passing knowledge of local history that the Assunpink Creek would leap over its banks, surge onto local streets and disable the