Punjab to offer free emergency hospital services

The scheme aims at addressing out-of-pocket expenditure in the state

Letters

Taking stock of biodiversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity, 20 years on, is still struggling to stem the precipitous decline in biodiversity. After missing the 2010 …

Price of nature

Book>> Payment for Ecosystem Services Edited By Pushpam Kumar and Roldan Muradian Rs 695

Natural injustice

What are oyster reefs?

A friend in weed

Less species, more diseases

Researchers blame increased human population

Natural bad debt

Biodiversity buffer

It can protect dryland from withering due to climate change

Farm differently

Report>>A report riles industrial farming nations and agribusiness

Debate over effects of biomass extraction in forests

World shrinks for oysters

Book The economics of biodiversity conservation valuation in tropical forest ecosystems

Book>> The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation Valuation in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

Call from cave

Bats, largely elusive till now, are slowly revealing their secrets as scientists record and analyse their calls

Earth has lost half of its ecosystem

Two-thirds of land-based ecosystems must be sustained to support life on the planet, says study

Moneymakers

TO REVEAL OR NOT

Bangladeshi beacon

Flashing facts

A new class of molecules could open a range of possibilities for storage of data on holograms

Fraud-free greenbucks

The Swiss, trust them! have come up with a digital bank note aesthetic, state of the art and in-copiable

Rapid privatisation has worsened health care services in poor and middle-income nations: study

But public sector, too. needs quality improvement, say researchers from University of California

MONEYMAKERS

Integration travails

THE MONEY MAKERS