the forest department in Kerala has prevented the Kani tribals to cultivate and sell the wonder plant Arogyapacha . The plant is used in the production of a drug developed by the Tropical

a group of activists and health professionals in the us have offered to test a controversial aids vaccine on themselves. Their offer is a part of a calculated effort to break the

the Hanumantha Rao Committee report, looking into the safety, environmental and rehabilitation aspects of the controversial Tehri Dam project, will be made public after it is presented to Prime

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A Mumbai court has ordered the release of five blind lions and lionesses that were performing for the Golden Circus. The tigers will now be kept in the Borivilli National Park. Earlier, the Delhi

austrian scientists might help clean the Dal Lake in Srinagar. The Austrian Deputy Chief of Mission in Delhi, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal has said that a scientist from the Austrian ministry of

A new draft has been prepared by the Union ministry of environment and forests to draw up a legislation regulating the country s biodiversity. Although there are some loopholes, it is definitely a step in the right direction

Stanley Prusiner, winner of the 1997 Nobel prize for medicine, devoted two decades of research to answer this question

An ecologically informed master plan for Kanpur may help the city deal with pollution

Thriving illegal trade in wild birds benefits city based traders, while the traditional trappers are blamed and struggle to survive