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The Ramnagar beach, near the North Andaman town of Diglipur, is one of the favourite sites of Olive Ridley turtles to lay their eggs. I roughed it out for eight hours on the high sea from Port Blair to Diglipur to assist Tutee in her labour pains. It...
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An oil spill can have devastating impact on the environment and it’s this daunting task of cleaning up the mess, which prompted researchers at MIT to develop a nanowire paper that could be an ideal tool for moping up oil spills.
The ‘paper’ is...
“Uncontacted Indians,” who have never before had any contact with the outside world, were discovered in the Envira River region in Brazil during a flight in May 2008 according to Funai, the National Indian Foundation, and the group Survival...
The peace and tranquility of my morning walk is shattered by the noise of a huge truck roaring up the mountain road. Every time I see them, they seem to get big in size and their load even bigger. Dozens pass by every day and I know where these...
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About four decades ago, no one expected that tourism would experience such a phenomenal growth and little thought was given to the impacts of tourism. Instead, tourism was considered a ‘smokeless industry’, ‘tailor made’ for third...
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The hills are alive ... with the sound of protest.
Angry Austrians living near a Salzburg villa that once belonged to the Von Trapp family immortalized in the blockbuster hit movie “The Sound of Music” are fighting plans to turn the home...
As a seamstress, Abida Dulalmia makes $1.25 a day embroidering cartoon characters on Disney T-shirts and stitching pockets on jeans for Target. In this jumbled, hazy metropolis, her salary was once coveted. Now it hardly seems enough.
Five nights a week, millions of Afghans put aside their dinner dishes, shush their children and turn on the TV to gape at Indian soap operas acted out in impossibly lavish settings by stars in sequined gowns and wedding jewelry.
How rich is the smell of fermenting manure on Joel Salatin’s Shenandoah Valley spread?
A thousand bucks for a few whiffs.That’s what Salatin, 51, the second-generation owner of Polyface Farm, commands for a two-hour, personally escorted tour...
These days people want more from their holiday than just a holiday - they want an adventure holiday. It has to be a holiday that will take them far away from working life and give them something to talk about in the pub when they get back.
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