Californian scientists have discovered the "human intracisternal retrovirus", which they believe causes a disease similar to AIDS. However, there is another school of thought that believes the new virus to be a distant strain of the HIV.

Uganda has agreed to be a testing site for trials of AIDS vaccines.

Forest products have become a fad in industrialised countries and are used to make a wide range of things, from ice creams to shampoos. For the Amazon tribals, however, this outpouring of wealth has ravished their cultural identity in crassly commercial m

The recent conference in Geneva, held to discuss moving up the date set for phasing out CFCs, got stuck over the question of aid to developing countries

Environment minister Kamal Nath has been caught in the firing line on the Chilika Aquatic Farms project. His order for an environmental impact assessment to be prepared is merely a move to delay taking a decision.

The average height of the Himalay has been going down over the last two million years because of climatic changes, surveys indicate.

THE HIMALAYAN-Tibetan rivers have been found to be a major source of marine uranium and scientists estimate they contribute about 3,000 tonnes, or, about 25 per cent of the total, worldwide marine