owls are providing scientists with tips on improving the design of the Stealth aircraft. The winged predators could provide clues to reducing noise in future aircraft. The prey of owls

The Bangkok city administration revived its anti-exhaust campaign by launching 20 motorcycle patrol teams to nab smoke-belching vehicles that may have eluded stationary checkpoints. The teams, each

The forests and the environment minister of Bangladesh Sajeda Chowdhury, has urged the country's Jahangirnagar University authorities not to lease out its water bodies as it will disturb the

Despite new measures to curb destruction of the world's largest rainforests in the Amazon basin, deforestation has increased by 30 per cent. Preliminary figures from satellite monitoring showed

Greenpeace activists from Brazil, Argentina, Spain, usa, Germany and Ghana cemented a discharge pipe belonging to a Dow Chemicals plant at Guaruja in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The pipe,

Brazil has slashed funds which it had promised to contribute towards a pilot project aimed at preserving the Amazon forests. The US $250-million-project was backed by seven leading industrial

Africa is being targe

People of Deukhuri valley in Nepal are putting pressure on the Village Development Chairman (VDQ to check salutation in Rapti river. local people are demanding Rs 300, 000 out of the Rs

African health authorities have been trying to get unauthorised vendors of medicines off the streets, but some observers feel they should also keep a close eye on the operations of pharmacies. In the