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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Charter for prosperity
The People's Natural Resources Management Bill, prepared by Madhav Gadgil and P R Sheshagiri Rao, is regarded as a viable alternative to the governments anti people Act, and could be a holistic solution
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Garrotting the carrot
Despite promises to the contrary, the draft Bill will strip people of heir traditional rights without protecting forests from commercial depredation
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Repeat performance
The ozone layer over the Antarctica was nearly as severely depleted in November last year as it was in 1993, when it reached a record low, reveal several airborne and space sensors. According to
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Ozone loss has a silver lining
Studies reveal that falling ozone concentration could partly offset global warming
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The woods are lovely...
The conservation of forests and Natural Ecosystems Bill, sponsored by the ministry of environment and forests, seeks to weed out an obsolete colonial act. But people"s rights will still take a beating if the Bill goes through
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Branches into batons
The Forest Bill can be used to preserve our verdant national wealth
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Some scum are like manna
A food for generations the world over, an algae comes as a boon for Tamil Nadu's farmers
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Reworking of times past
In the race to make a fast buck from <i>Jurassic Park, </i>Spielberg lost a cinematic shot at recreating the complex ecosystem where dinosaurs ruled Earth
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Too close to the sun
The internationally funded programme to promote solar photovoltaic systems remains a nonstarter
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Everybody's science
WHEN was the last time you read a popular science book which made you laugh? Or which didn't treat you like a cretin and didn't make absurd, pseudo-scientific statements regarding mysterious