First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Path of a Particle
How particles trigger health effects once they reach the lungs is not yet clear. There are a number of hypotheses though. A new study published in Circulation (January 2002) has found that ultrafine
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Monitoring GM foods
Accord on global management of biotech foodstuffs
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Malnourished future
More than half of the world's underweight children live in South Asia
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Of mild cigarettes and stiff penalties
Philip Morris told to pay damages for misleading smokers
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In conclusion. Listen to a simple story
Where citizens living near a highway sued their own government for air pollution. The government was asked to compensate for the health of people. In January 2000, in a long-running court
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MAPPING THE HOT SPOTS
32 out of 59 cities monitored are critically polluted in terms of total suspended particulate matter (TSPM). For respirable particulate matter (RSPM), 13 of the14 cities are critically polluted
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Theft in tiger country
hundreds of trees were hacked recently near Gosaba in the Sunderbans in West Bengal. The felling is said to be the handiwork of timber smugglers. However, no action has been taken against the
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Tackling jumbo menace
to curb the menace caused by straying pachyderms, the Jharkhand government has floated a national tender inviting experts to formulate a plan to drive away elephants from areas inhabi tated by
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Risk analysis mooted
there is a looming threat from foreign fruits flooding Indian markets as they bring pests with them, say agriculture experts who are urging the government to conduct a risk analysis before
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Preference to natives
local community members will have the first claim over the forest produce, says the blueprint of Madhya Pradesh's new forest policy. Only after these people consume the forest produce for fodder,