Quarry quarrel In response to the Amey Roadstone Corporation's (ARC) appeal to the Somerset County Council for doubling the size of its Whatley quarry in Mendip Hills, Somerset, British
A solar system within a solar system? Seems like a riddle, but if one planet can hold 1,000 earths, is 318 times as massive and 1,400 times more voluminous, what do you call it? Jupiter, with its 16 moons.... Jupiter, the father, the god who ruled
Galileo, en route to Jupiter, flew within 2,400 km of the asteroid Ida to discover a natural satellite, Dactyl. Ida is a member of the Koronis family of asteroids, which are believed to
Large-scale episodal mortality among the freshwater fishes of certain
lakes of Bangalore City, Karnataka State, India occurred in June 1995.
We conducted an intensive study of the Sankey Lake which is situated in
Sadashiva Nagar of Bangalore city where fish mortality occurred on quite
a large scale during June - July 1995. These studies reveal that the fish-
Militancy has destroyed much more than peace in Kashmir. Kalashnikov trotting extremists are ravaging the last green frontiers of the 'heaven on earth'. Even the Army is accused of active complicity. Eco vandalism has certainly emerged as a lucrative deal
Management ofprotected areas has been one of the principal bones of contention between the various shades of interested opinions in the country. Environmentalists, social workers, reasearchers, NGO activists, bureaucrats and parliamentarians got toge
The Northern model of conserving tropical forests by completely eleminating humans from them will spell ecological disaster, and may aimed more at protecting the agricultural export markets of developed countries than enhancing global biodiversity
Gopal Paliwal had always been intrigued by the complex physiology of wild or rock honeybees. Today, this 28-year old entomologist boasts of a doctorate (from Wardha University) on the
Ecologist N V C Polunin argues that protected areas are an extreme form of conservation, and that other forms of regulated area management may be more appropriate for the management needs of local
