The first national survey of 42 rivers by the UK Environment Agency has just been completed and it found that a third of male fish are growing female reproductive tissues and organs. Effects were

A US-based professor has been awarded by the American Enthnological Society for her book on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy that occured 19 years

"I am hiding because I don't want to go to work today. But they will come and drag me. Look, here they come!" This is 9 year old Pyaari, a child labourer who wants to play, not work. This

In the most tangible demonstration so far of collaboration between public and private genome researchers, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has awarded $58 million in grants to Baylor College of

Activists of Narmada Bachao Andolan(NBA) will hold a protest rally at Badwani on October 23, against the Supreme Court order giving green signal to the controversial Sardar Sarovar project(SSP) on

Once the centre of attraction for tourists in Kashmir, the Dal Lake has shrunk by half from its previous size in the last few decades. About 20 per cent of its total area of 11 sq km has passed into

The World Wide Fund for Nature ( wwf ) launched a year-long campaign to put an end to the rampant ivory trade in Thailand. Citing a recent report, wwf -Thailand said ivory trade has

Torrential rains in central Korea have killed 42 people and injured 94 in the Kaesong area alone, according to official figures. Also, 581 houses were submerged or destroyed, leaving 2,905