A partially mummified skeleton of the Spirit Cave Man lying in the Nevada State Museum in the US, is at the centre of a controversy. Recent tests have revealed that the Cave Man was at least

Were the Neandertals our ancestors or a different species? Experts have unearthed intriguing aspects of the lives of these intelligent and compassionate creatures

The survival and evolution of a species is dependant on both the competing claimsfor survival being asserted within the species and between different species. Timothy Flannery in his book The Future Eaters, explores the strategies backing evolu

RITA ANAND looks at changes in Himalayan forest cover in historical perspective, focusing on the Kaghan Valley in northern Pakistan

RITA ANAND explores how a megacity civilisation of Central American Indians Had survived on natural resource management, and what needs to be done to Salvage the system

...although the now bald pate of Iceland was once resplendent with grass and verdant willow, rowan and birch forests

A Myanmarese shifting cultivation technique, once perverted by British colonisers to maximise teak exploitation, is still valued for its benefits