about 80,000 children in north Korea are in immediate danger of dying from hunger and disease and another 80,000 are suffering from malnutrition. Carol Bellamy, executive director of unicef

Essential repairs were successfully conducted on the beleaguered space station

A pepper spray will be used to deter wild elephants from raiding farms. The spray can is being developed by Loki Osborn, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge, UK and Jack Birochak, an inventor

Industry and people s rights organisations in India are at loggerheads over the shaping of the biodiversity bill and amendments to the existing patent act

the jaguar, one of the most elusive

A TV crew was allegedly attacked on the premises of a factory that produces H acid

A US study shows that increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in the atmosphere result in improved photosynthesis, helping trees grow faster. Scientists at the University of Georgia,

Indian meteorologists say the Pacific current El Ni o would not disrupt monsoons in India. Foreign experts disagree

researchers in Germany have dis

The Union government has issued notices to over 2,000 polluting units