State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
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India Organics Inc
The Indian farmer is naturally organic. But without support and premium for green crops, there is no alternative but to take the chemical route
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Unearthing a duplicate
Discovery of a new planet raises hopes of finding planets similar to the Earth
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Heat traps
Aerosols trap heat and increase temperatures
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A fishy story
Sixty per cent of the world's important fish stocks are in urgent need of management to rehabilitate them or keep them from being overfished. While the idea of sustainable fishing remains mired in
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Cyclones, doubts and monsoon
An early monsoon breaks a few myths
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West By Far East
In the rush for economic growth, China ignored its environment. Now it faces a nightmare. The country is one of the most polluted in the world.
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Mapping the dirt
NASA comes up with the most comprehensive view yet of global air pollution
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The POPs treaty
A historical chance to get rid of some of the most toxic substances known to humans
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Growing with the wind
global installed wind power capacity will increase by 39 per cent in 2001, according to the World Market Update 2000 prepared by btm Consult, a Danish wind industry consultancy. The
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Tackling oil spills
the International Maritime Organi sation (imo), a un agency, has recently approved a convention that sets up rules and regulations about liability and compensation in cases of oil spills