Saving drops for tomorrow

The sorry state of global water resources will surface in the sixth Stockholm Water Symposium

A Gangetic blunder

Woes of the world

It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report

None for the plunge

How is science doing?

"The engine of social and economic improvement" has recently been assessed globally by experts and scientists

Hello, lets save those trees

Protest calls spread far and wide against the logging of ancient rain orests by a US company for manufacturing its phone books

Letter of advice

Denying education to women may erode fundamental human solidarity, affecting social cohesion, says a United Nations report

Neem: the patent serial

Standard tests

Toolmaker crows

Wilted concerns

A recently proposed environmental evaluation smacks of evasive tactics

The ozone piracy

Hectic trading of CFCs in US back-alleys is bothering little about the earth's punctured ozone canopy

Mangled mangroves

All that may remain of the pristine mangrove forests of coastal Tamil Nadu is degraded forest tracts and plundered biodiversity

Brazil backs dubious project

Antarctic odessey

A clean dig

Experts from all over India and the world vote for cleaner mining options in the first ever world mining Congress

Damned squabbles

Waves of criticism against the newly proposed Kalpsar project wash away the Gujarat government's ambitious claims

Positive move

Kerala to set up biodiversity board

Nicole, the prehistoric

A dealer of rare fossils says he has found a dinosaur egg containing an intact embryo

Exploring the deep

An Indian scientist was part of an expedition to explore a new world on the ocean floor

Paper tigers

It is now the turn of the tiger to be saved by legislators

Ghose is dead

An ULFA press release says that Sanjoy Ghose fell to his death from a cliff in Arunachal Pradesh

Alive, but a hostage

NGO leader Sanjoy Ghosh, abducted by Assamese separatists, is reported to be alive

Destination: red planet

The historic Mars Pathfinder spacecraft lands on the Mars equipped with the first ever mobile robot rover to divulge the planet's secrets

Poor gift