A s the silver waters of the Kishanganga rush through this north Kashmir valley, Indian labourers are hard at work on a hydropower project that will dam the river just before it flows across one of

Mismatch In Favour Of Production 1st Time Since ’04-05, Prices Drop 25% In 4 Months

North Korea has resumed construction work on an experimental light water reactor (ELWR) in a move that could extend its capacity to produce more material for nuclear weapons, website 38North report

Corals, trees and marine sediments, among others, are direct evidence of the climate of the past, but they are not the only indicators.

Fresh water supplies are unlikely to keep up with global demand by 2040, increasing political instability, hobbling economic growth and endangering world food markets, according to a U.S.

Gene banks represent an overdue push to preserve crop biodiversity. It also needs conserving on farms.

Indian companies tried to export nuclear grade material to Syria and Iran in violation of international conventions and desisted only after the matter was raised by the US, WikiLeaks has revealed.

The European Union has agreed to ban oil imports from Syria, the most significant economic sanctions imposed on the regime of Bashar al-Assad for its use of military force to suppress pro-democracy

European Union members escalated the pressure on Syria’s government on Friday by banning all imports of Syrian oil in response to its violent suppression of the nearly six-month-old uprising there.

An invasive alien weed, silverleaf nightshade, is threatening cotton and wheat crops in Syria and Iraq and could spread to Lebanon and Jordan, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.

More than 60 percent of the farmland in Syria, growing mainly cotton and wheat, has been infested with the weed, originally from the American tropics, which sucks nutrients from