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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...up the wrong tree
A report on the US ban on shrimp exports from India, which appeared in this magazine recently, has elicited a sharp response from Earth Island Institute, a US based <font class='UCASE'>NGO.</font> Reproduced below is an extract of the letter and CSE s s
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In the nick of time
The rediscovery of a traditional system of water management that involves the construction of embankments to harness rainwater, has revived agriculture and water supply in the Mewat region of eastern Rajasthan
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Ignored treasures
the Rajya Sabha chairperson's orders, that the House be kept informed of all developments in the water-to-petrol discovery by a
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Gandhi and the environment
Gandhiji's environmentalism was based on the following ethical principles: non-violence, truth and persevering the truth; shunning the use of materials obtained by illegitimate means and so on. Gandhiji
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A bracketed meeting in Geneva
The latest meeting to decide upon funding for the ozone protocol ended up with the developed nations foiling the basic demands of the G 77 countries, adding more disputed issues in the square brackets
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The third connection
In what appears to be the decade s most spectacular event in biology, scientists sequenced the entire genome of <i>Methanococcus jannaschii</i> , a primitive microbe that not only provides fundamental insights into early evolution, but also holds a lot
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Down with the reservoir
Six years after their land and homes were submerged by the Bargi dam, residents of 162 villages in Seoni, Mandla and Jabalpur districts of the upper Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh still await
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Spreading the fire
The mandarins of the Indian science establishment have begun pushing the process of making the wonder fuel from water and herbs to its logical conclusion: patent and commercial exploitation, and the news has set the media aflame
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M jannaschii : biotech boon
The archaeon M jannaschii was originally isolated in 1983 by John Leigh (then at the University of Illinois; now at the University of Washington) from a sample collected from the hydrothermal vent
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Live response
A Japanese construction firm, Taisei Corporation, has developed a soil bioremediation technique that offers a less expensive and environmentally benign response to soil that has been contaminated