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

Do gender differences reflect in the functioning of the brain? Yes, say scientists who have confirmed the hypothesis that differences exist in the functional,organisation of brain for a specific

Indo Bangladesh water talks seem to have taken a positive turn while critics still consider the issue a washed out case

...although the now bald pate of Iceland was once resplendent with grass and verdant willow, rowan and birch forests

A debate crackles over a government decision to allow paper plantations to remain in degraded forests

Observations support the hypothesis that thousands of comets are present in a belt on the periphery of our Solar System

The recent Atlantis Mir docking in space, only the 2nd of its kind, is the first tentative step towards Mars

IN a welcome move, Madhya Pradesh (mp) has been proclaimed a 'Tiger state' to give more thrust to its tiger protection programme. Declaring this on June 25, the state minister for forests, B R Yadav,

The salient features of the new government scheme which would allow paper plantations to stay on degraded forests are: • The selection of the project area shall be done jointly by the