India hopes to earn Rs 200 crore every year exporting flowers mass produced in laboratories

A high court order in favour of the Konkan railway corporation has provoked much anger and resentment among those who oppose the controversial project

IN HUNGARY, the blue Danube is creating trouble. This fortnight the country withdrew from the controversial hydroelectric project on the river, fuelling a fierce row with its neighbour,

National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources Pusa Complex New Delhi 110 012. National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources Indian Council of Agricultural Research National Dairy Research

Forests: For the South, this is perhaps the most crucial and most difficult battle ahead. The North has been insisting on a legal framework to manage the world's forests. Each

A new kind of fishing raft is replacing the traditional ones along the Madras coast

EUROPE is getting increasingly worried about nuclear fallout from the erstwhile communist republics. The G-7 leaders are expected to endorse a multibillion-dollar plan to improve the safety of

Environmental economists hold the brief that the best way to put environment on the agenda of various countries is to make them realise its economic value. Partha Dasgupta of Stanford

With the discovery that not all four anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria, programmes to control the disease need fresh appraisal

It is possible to design buildings that stay cool in summer and warm in winter and save energy. But interest in solar passive architecture is still limited

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