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Energy boost: In an effort to promote renewable energy, California has passed a bill which requires electricity retailers to increase their use of such resources by at least one per cent per year.
Energy boost: In an effort to promote renewable energy, California has passed a bill which requires electricity retailers to increase their use of such resources by at least one per cent per year.
Children under five years of age should not be admitted into schools as it may lead to behavioural changes that are harmful in the long term. A team of researchers led by Michael Weitzman at the
<p><span id="itro1">Unprecedented growth in water demand is threatening major development goals, warns this latest World Water Development Report. Says that food demand, urbanization and climate change
For officials in the power sector, setting targets for electricity generation has become a leap in the dark. Because of environmental considerations, all targets for producing power from conventional
A commonly consumed oilseed northeastern India - Perii.- frutescens or Hanshi - has bee- found to reduce blood cholestero i, Researchers at the Hyderabad- basec National Institute of
Biofuels can trigger climate change, claims study; Indian scientists sceptical
Farmers of the future won't have to worry about pests, crop disease and herbicides.
• In a pathbreaking research, scientists from Kumaon University in Nainital, Uttar Pradesh, recently identified potential biological control agents for malaria in two parasitic fungi
The Philippines finally enacts a law to reduce pollution<br> <br>
Exotic species bring slow death to native ones<br>
at least 22 people have died in eastern Uttar Pradesh ( up ) in the past two months because of Japanese encephalitis, which is commonly known as brain fever. A mosquito borne, viral disease,
SCHEDULED to be held three years ago but repeatedly postponed due to the raging controversy surrounding it, the conference to debate on the possible relation between Genetics and
A woman with a mission. ORAL ATANVFAZOVA, at 39, finds herself in the midst of a salvage operation aimed at providing succour to the teeming massess In the disease afflicted areas of the Aral Sea basin. Starting with being an obstetrician and gyn
In Africa's Rift Valley, a simple fly trap is helping to check the spread of the second leading cause of blindness in the world. The inventor David Morley, a retired specialist in tropical child
FIVE-DAY-OLD Andrew Gobea became the first newborn to undergo gene therapy when surgeons at a Los Angeles hospital injected him recently with gene-altered cells obtained from his mother's placental
Thailand's anti-tobacco lobby is on the verge of smoking out the display of cigarette packets in retail shops across the country. d-day is September 24, 2005 when cigarette packets will be banished
When the one-way valves in the veins of the leg malfunction, the resulting build-up of blood can lead to painful swelling, better known as varicose veins. Usually, leg bandages are prescribed which
How the environment sacred to Hindus is bearing the brunt of pollution in the name of religion
Multipurpose vitamin C also fights arsenic FROM common cold to cancer, the role of vitamin C in combating diseases has long been hailed. Recent research has shown that it can also alleviate arsenic-induced toxic effects. People living in high-risk arsenic contaminated areas can now use the cheap and easily available vitamin C (also known as ascorbic acid) as a dietary supplement.
poisonous smoke from the burning of a dump of batteries in Ghaziabad spread on January 8, 2007. One woman succumbed due to the smoke, others complained of nausea, headache, coughing and vomiting.