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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Environmental anguish in Love Canal
The US has become a model for ensuring the proper disposal of hazardous wastes
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Live teak, dead timber
The newfound prosperity may slow the disappearance of the teak forests of Mahadapur
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Face to face
Leading firms are using various technologies to grab a share of the gigantic market created by the need to provide the Indian electorate with identity cards
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PUNJAB: Ignorance is bliss
The situation is, if anything, worse in the north Indian states like Punjab, where many industrialists acknowledge they are not even aware of the possibility of their products being toxic or of solid
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Waste not, want not
Salient features of the Union government's guidelines for handling and managing hazardous waste
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The taste of arsenic
EVEN as diseases caused by arsenic-tainted water continue to ravage several districts of West Bengal, the state government has initiated a Rs 15-crore action plan to supply safe drinking water to the
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Toxic nightmare
Common effluent treatment plants were meant to help small industries, but they simply don't seem to work
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Forests bite the bullet
TERRORISM in Kashmir has hit the forests. According to estimates made by the Jammu & Kashmir administration, based on studies conducted by environmentalists, a cohort of militants and smugglers has
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Snooping on the market
INTERNATIONAL market intelligence is in. The Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana formed an International Marketing Intelligence Committee in April this year to optimally exploit export
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Averted by slick timing
A major oil spill was averted when an oil barge, Innovative I, which had run aground in the coastal waters off Andhra Pradesh, was finally anchored by the Coast Guard after a week of anxious waiting.