THE PESTICIDES Association of India (PAI) and the ministry of environment and forests (MEF) are at loggerheads over a draft notification that includes pesticides in the list of products to be covered

New fossils discovered in Siberia indicate that marine life evolved over much less time than thought by scientists.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL Foundation Ltd (EFL) of Sri Lanka has threatened the country's Central Environment Authority (CEA) with legal action for becoming an "advocate for industrialists" by granting

After reports of the success of cloud seeding in the US, Australia and the Philippines, Union agriculture minister Balram Jakhar has become a strong votary of the practice. "There is no reason why

In Niger and Mali, where timber is scarce and expensive, mud building is making a headway, thanks to the efforts of a French organisation called Development Workshop.

In response to ecologists up in arms against the golf courses mushrooming all over the world, designers are now coming up with eco friendly courses.

Of all the planets in our solar system, Mercury has been the most elusive it took astronomers almost 14 centuries to predict its orbit correctly. The latest sighting of the planet, called its transit, occurred earlier this month.

Restrictions on use of natural resources in protected areas are driving the local communities dependent on forest produce for their survival to a state of deprivation. Conservation strategies can be sustainable only when it involves indigenous people in t

The electronics industry is poised for a quantum jump as a group of Indian scientists claim to have developed a silicon based, light emitting diode.

Although the recently held world population summit emphasised population control in the developing countries as the main block in the path to development, some delegates held the consumption patterns of the developed countries responsible for the problems