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
India
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CHINA
Starting a five-year clean-up plan, China will spend us $7.85 billion and set stringent environmental control targets to combat pollution. The cabinet has given its nod to the environmental
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Polluting unit in Rajasthan gets clean chit
Activists are fighting the Rajasthan Board for Prevention and Control of Pollution's sudden decision to clear the Pesticides India Ltd factory at Udaipur hint the reason behind the reversal is political
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Where development spells misery
For Singrauli residents, each new project has meant another displacement
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Staple diet on the rot
Tonnes of potatoes rot due to the dysfunctioning of two cold storage units in West Bengal, polluting the eco system and upsetting the economy
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Look before you leap
Denmark has for the first time introduced a law relating to the transfer of polluting technologies to other countries
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Paying the price
The cost of environmental degradation is rising steeply in India, says the World Bank
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Indian asbestos workers want life
In view of the global and national evidence of the increasing death toll of asbestos workers, Indian trade unions, labour and environmental groups have demanded a boycott of all asbestos products and
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Marsh gas rising
Pollution of wetlands can increase emission of the greenhouse gas methane
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Inhumanly polluted
Away from human interference, the virgin Arctic islands are, ironically, more polluted than the distant industrialised settlements. And the reason is a filthy secret
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The question of timing
Pollution grows with economic progress a fact which supports the view that the GRP should have arrived earlier