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Organic living: chemical breakthroughs set stage for ‘Green’ revolution
Plastics derived from plants may solve waste crisis
San Francisco: Researchers at IBM on Tuesday said that they have discovered a way to make an Earth-friendly plastic from plants that could replace petroleum-based products, which are tough on the environment.
- Date:
- 10/03/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Save lives by counting the dead
Counting the world’s deaths and finding out why people die is one of the most important goals to improve public health. Professor Prabhat Jha tells why he is obsessed with death numbers.
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- Mar 2010
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- Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol: 88 Issue: 3 pp: 171-172
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Ice shelves in Antarctica disappearing
A new research by US Geological Survey (USGS) has deter- mined that ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change, which could result in glacier retreat and sea- level rise if warming continues.
- Date:
- 24/02/2010
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Reason over emotion - Climate change, food security and the need for rational debate
ASHOK GANGULY
Two critical and contemporary issues, principally in the domain of science, are grabbing headlines in the popular media — the Himalayan glaciers and the Bt brinjal in India.
- Date:
- 24/02/2010
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- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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CM announces climate research centre for State
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced the establishment of Climate Change Research Centre in the Madhya Pradesh Council for Science and Technology (MPCST) on Monday. He said that this centre would collect data related to the climate change in rich State referring to the forest property, biotechnology and agricultural climate zone.
- Date:
- 23/02/2010
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- Pioneer (New Delhi)
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“Clarification needed on bio-safety of GM mosquitoes”
Director of Public Health S. Elango on Monday said clarifications were needed on the bio-safety of Genetically Modified (GM) mosquitoes being developed by researchers globally to combat vector-borne diseases such as malaria, chikungunya and dengue.
He said here that public health administrators and governments could not take any chances with GM technology unless safety was assured.
- Date:
- 23/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Youngest extra-solar planet found
The youngest extra-solar planet, six times the mass of Jupiter -- 1.9x1027 kg, has been discovered.
The giant planet named BD+20 1790b is only 35 million years old and orbits a young active central star at a distance closer than Mer- cury orbits the sun.
- Date:
- 23/02/2010
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Green technology: MIT wants to join hands with India
Applauding the Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission 2022 initiative launched by India to unleash 20,000 MW of power during the next decade, US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has expressed its strong desire to be associated with the Indian Government, industry and academia to research and develop clean energy green technology in the post-Copenhagen scenario.
- Date:
- 22/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Indian scientist’s research on speed of brain grabs international attention
An Indian scientist has won international attention through his research on mechanisms that control the speed of brain.
- Date:
- 22/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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CSIR to launch academy of scientific, innovative research
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) plans to take interactive research programmes to another level and make them a regular feature in their yearly calendar.
- Date:
- 22/02/2010
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- Indian Express (Chandigarh)
