A proposal to include the Calcutta wetlands in the list of waterbodies of national importance will protect it from real estate developers as well as facilitate funds for its conservation

Calendar of events in the Calcutta wetlands over the last century

Environmentalists in Goa are protesting the building of golf courses in the state, which they say will cause immense ecological degradation

A computerised up-to-date information system will soon replace cumbersome files and harassed information officers at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). The computerised information

The Karnataka forest department will launch joint forest planning and management programmes beginning this September, according to forests and wildlife minister M P Keshavamurthy. The programmes are

Fears that India's burgeoning population has become the "mother of all problems" may yet be belied. Vasant Gowariker, former scientific advisor to the Prime Minister, says his analysis of Indian

TWO RUSSIAN scientists propose to get rid of radioactive waste by throwing it out of the solar system. The waste will be blasted out of the earth's atmosphere on conventional rockets and then fired

THE US patent and trademark office last December issued patents for three transgenic animals, which are animals that have been implanted with genes at an early developmental stage. The only previous

Scientists have created the most realistic model of ocean currents yet and taken another step towards understanding global climate

DESPITE continuing criticism from ecologists, work has started on the Three Gorges Dam along the Yangtze river in China, the world's largest hydroelectric project. The project includes a