A workshop in Nepal on community forest use brings to the fore environmental gains of the concept

Detecting the body's fat deposits

NINTH-ISLAND rookery, the picturesque abode of 12,000 penguins in southern Australia may well turn out to be the oily grave of these precious birds. Over 500 tonnes (t) of fuel oil leaked

A controversy rages over whether the Surat plague bacillus was a secret hardsell by a Kazakh chemical firm

A new technique to deliver drugs to eyes without making them water

FRANCE's nuclear testing shenanigans the Mururoa atoll have caused an international furore (see Down to Earth, 31, 1995). Among the most hostile ics of the French moves on the atol the

The Environment Appraisal Commiittee for River Valley and Hydro-electricity Projects under the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF), has recommended that construction work on 10 dams be

Using fungi in dressings for faster healing of wounds

CHINA has been literally flooded with trouble. Coping with torrential showers reportedly the heaviest in 100 years was bad enough; the bursting of a river dike compounded the problem.

The poor man's access to common property resources which is declining due to rapid commercialization, needs to be protected, says a United Nations Development Programme report on Human Development in