The first humans crossed a land bridge from Siberia into the Americas 40,000 years ago, about 30,000 years earlier than had been thought, according to new research. A study of Native American

The introduction of a common European currency as the world's computer programmers are trying to defuse the millennium bomb in 2000 ranks as "one of the worst public policy decisions in history",

Computers can control Intensive care Unit ventilators more successfully than doctors, an expert in computerised medicine has told the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A computer

Whether genetically engineered food crops will ever be grown in Europe has become a very real question for the biotechnology industry. For instance, there is an indefinite delay on the registration

European agriculture ministers will be told today that an agreement is close with the US on a "veterinary equivalency" deal aimed at easing EU-US trade friction over meat. A final deal could be

China is starting to feel the heat of Asia's financial crisis - and the chilli farmers in the north-west of the country have been among the first to get burned. The province of Shaanxi, one of the

As part of the Golden jubilee celebration of Independence, the Forest Department plans to launch a massive tree planting campaign in the city. As many as two lakh saplings are to be planted in

expert : US National Academy of Sciences Home Secretary Peter Raven today called for international cooperation and collective wisdom for the conservation and multiplication of medicinal plants and

These should be good times for Kenya's tea farmers. World prices for their product are impressively high, the E1 Nino weather phenomenon has brought plenty of rain, and as long as there is no drought

This legendary town has been facing soil erosion and landslips in its enviorns for quite some time. These problems have been threatening not only the fragile slopes but also the stability of building