Rocked!

On July 4, 1997, planet Mars will see robots crawling about, seeking more evidence of life there, egged on by the extraordinary find of 'life' in …

Hide Burns

Skin diseases and stomach ailments afflict most of the people living around a tannery area in Kanpur - one of the fallout of the failure of the …

Hell in Europe's back yard

Cancer and air pollution go hand in hand in eastern Europe, where an ecological nightmare is still unfolding

Money growth policy for Bihar

Social forestry project links rural employment with growing saplings

Now, there is something

The discovery that neutrinos have mass will lead to the rewriting of many laws of physics

Title of Ocassional Rim

After talk, action on renewables

Electricity regulator assures increased returns on investment and uniform tariffs across India

The never-green Gowda

The Prime Minister of India, in a rush to roll on the wheel of development, projects himself as an arrogant autocrat. His disregard for all …

Warning Quakes

Frequent tremors in Khandwa, which lies on the Budwani-Sukta fault line, may be signs of a larger quake to come

Caught in the wet

Wetland management is drawing increasing flak for advocating misdirected conservation strategies and disregarding local needs

No news is bad news

A dearth of information brought brickbats to the department of wastelands development, which was entrusted the Herculean task of reducing the …

Tonic for the industry, trial for the patients

Industry pundits predict that greater decentralisation for the drug sector will raise production to three times the present level in less than a …

On the trail of the hungry herd

A stray herd of elephants in West Bengal was hounded by villagers and government officials, who feared destruction of their crop. The incident …

A bolt from the blue

If critical air traffic control operations are not beefed up by adequate and modern infrastructure, nightmare is bound to happen in the Indian …

Cultivating a turn-around

Depredations of a virus, public outcry and strictures of the Supreme Court combine to make the aquaculture industry sit up and take note of its …

The economics of science

Scientific research in China has become big business with the nation's economy banking heavily on it for results

Reclaiming clean air

An emissions trading programme, introduced in the US to provide incentives to companies for emission control, could be an effective instrument in …

Sowing less, reaping bare

Yet another controversial move by our environment and forests ministry could ring the death-knell for India's biodiversity

Two hoots to AIDS

A controversial marrow transplant operation in the US, a faulty gene in a dormant strain of the HIV isolated in Australia, the Zinc Finger …

Failing to deliver

Issues pertaining to science and the environment took a backseat during the recently-concluded special session of the Indian Parliament

Back with a vengeance

Malaria is making a comeback. Parasites and mosquitoes have developed resistance to drugs and insecticides and new drugs are too costly and …

Small Is Polluting

Government and industry support groups step in to check pollution by small-scale units

First among equals

Peer review, the long-standing custodian of good science, is now being seen by many as a cabalistic exercise that assures the self-interests of …

Understanding stress

Stress-related diseases like heart attacks are becoming common. Science is trying to understand how the human body copes with stress

Wild at home

Private farms, cattle ranches and indigenous people help in managing wild animals, thereby giving a fillip to Zimbabwe's wildlife conservation policy