Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ornl) researchers in the US have theorised that mercury in soil gas is absorbed by plants when the plants ' mercury level is low. But when their mercury level rises
Spirogyra along with another algal species Cladophora, disrupts normal aquatic life and forces municipalities to spend enormous sums on declogging water bodies (Frontiers -Newsletter of the
YET another instance of mindless destruction of forests: a pine forest, specially grown at a cost of Rs 10 lakh a decade ago, will be razed to make way for a VIP, complex close to the Raj Bhawan
Fig trees are pollinated by fig-wasps who in turn lay eggs in the flower so that wasp babies can grow there. This, however, does not tea to extinction of fig trees as man of the fig
The Indian Gypsy Moth is slowly but surely munching its way through Bhutan's treasure of oaks. A study conducted by the Forestry Research Institute, based in Taba, reveals that the swarm has since
BENIGN REGULATIONS: Go green and mint money: this is the message that Allied Colloids, a Bradford- based chemical company has been conveying to other industrial houses in the UK. In a