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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All for a name
Naming of elements which are discovered in accelerators is a controversial subject. The heaviest 19 elements are not found in nature and are created by physicists in their laboratories. The
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Sensitive explorer
S R Manalis and his colleagues at the Stanford University, in the US, have reported the fabrication of a new type of cantilever which uses optical deflection and is extremely sensitive. A movable
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MIXED FARE
A federal court in North Carolina, US, recently passed a landmark judgement related to smoking when it ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can regulate sales and labelling on
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CHINA
A treasure trove of dinosaur fossils has been discovered in a remote region of northeast China, according to an international team of paleontologists. Hundreds of major finds at the site include the
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Weather watch
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, US, recently laun ched a new weather satellite GOES-K to gear up for the busy Atlantic hurricane season. The National Weather Service (NWS) now
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CHILE
The Chilean government has recently passed a new regulation making environmental impact studies (eis) obligatory for new projects. Consequently, some large projects that were previously approved by
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DIARRHOEA DEATHS
According to health experts, every year, nearly 300,000 Pakistani children die of diarrhoea before reaching the age of five. The experts revealed this while commenting on the role of mass media in
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CLEAN DRIVE
The plug pollution binge has caught on in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. Authorities are planning to expand the areas in the city where polluting vehicles are not allowed to ply. The
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ANOTHER BREATHER
The Supreme Court of India recently extended its stay on demolition of aqua farms till July 31. The stay order on the closure of all aqua farms located within 500 metres of the coastline, was to
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ACT OR PAY
The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) of the US recently sued New York city for its failure to construct a filtration plant to clean its most polluted reservoirs in the east of the Hudson river