Microsoft, the US computer software giant, has firsthand experience of its products being pirated in China. Despite burgeoning demand for personal computers -- China imports between 500,000 and

FROM the humid green of the Amazon to the drier climes of the deep Congo, shifting agriculture has been practised down the ages by communities confronted with lush forests. Today, tropical forests

The country's deep sea fishing policy has run into troubled waters. Acceding to protests by fisherfolk against forays by multinational companies into the Indian seas, the government has frozen the

The ozone layer over the Antarctica was nearly as severely depleted in November last year as it was in 1993, when it reached a record low, reveal several airborne and space sensors. According to

With about 300 sq km almost stripped bare of forest cover, Africa's first national park battles for survival

PETER Smetacek, 30, has a rare collection of butterflies, said to be among the largest in India. He is an authority on Himalayan butterflies. His love affair with butterflies began in his early

Remote villages lacking post office services will be given monetary incentive to set up a basic postal facility under a newly introduced government programme called the Panchayat Sanchar Sewa Yojana.

Sleeves and cuffs made of a new biodegradable material can help mend damaged blood vessels

Are chemicals used during the Gulf War causing sperm mutations among the war's soldiers?

INSECTS destroy a major part of standing crop, damaging the predominantly agrarian economy of the developing countries. That traditional pesticides are indisputably environmentally detrimental is an