Be cautioned

Google is sending out messages to users that their Gmail accounts may have been targeted by state-sponsored cyber-criminals. The warnings, which Google security officials began sending out October 2, are coming after its security officials gleaned new information about cyber-attacks and their perpetrators, The New York Times reports.

In the dark

Getting the bulletin right

In the PBS documentary, Monsoon, the poet S P Kurada notes, “The wild monsoon winds blow with abandon, swaying everything in their path.

Capturing the monsoons

Drops for the economy

Solace in money plant

INSTITUTIONAL investors have found the right formula to tide over the contagious recession and unstoppable inflation in Europe and North America: invest in trees. A recently released survey of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) finds that more and more institutional investors are putting in money in forestry to protect their investments from spiralling down. The survey covered 42 investors having US $32 billion worth of investments in forestry.

The Avon lady lifts our biodiversity

Science and Technology - Briefs

CLIMATE SCIENCES Blooming like never before

Slow death

Empty Promises

As soaring food prices threatened to push 100 million more people into starvation, heads and representatives of 180 countries gathered in Rome in the first week of June to find ways to overcome the crisis. The situation was extraordinary--global food prices have almost doubled in three years and the Food and Agriculture Organization (fao) predicts the trend is not going to ease in the short term because global grain supplies are at their lowest since the 1980s.

Fowl Play

The guns are drawn, the coffers are stocked and international border security tightened. The preparations portend a global disaster -- a possible pandemic as the avian influenza ominously overruns countries. A blitzkrieg of media reports and press releases by international animal and human health organisations push the panic button. Estimates of death toll and economic loss are running out of zeroes.