On December 26, 1996, the Convention to Combat Desertification, a UN treaty aimed against formation of new deserts, came into force. It was one of the pacts agreed at the UN sponsored Rio summit in
In June last year when the Cluster mission was blown up because of a faulty launcher, most people thought that it was the end of the mission. But now the European Space Agency's Space Science
A group from the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK has analysed the isotopic composition of samples from ALH84001, the original Martian meteorite and reported results that support claims of the
fresh water might become a reality for Israelites with the recent discovery of three salty springs beneath the Sea of Galilee. The sea mainly receives its water from the river Jordan which carries
in a December 1996 ruling on a public interest petition, the Supreme Court ordered 292 coke coal-based industries in the trapezium zone of the historical Taj Mahal to either close down, pull
international experts recently sounded an alarm bell over conservationists' fervour for saving the Indian tiger. They say for want of attention, several rare species in the country stand the
Japanese scientists have learned that beer may inhibit the carcinogen: tryptophan pyrolysate product no-2, a heterocyclic amine, produced by burning meat, fish or tobacco leaves. This was reported by
india is receiving a us $50 million loan from the World Bank for implementing an environmental management capacity building project to ensure the monitoring of and compliance with