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Daimler-Benz, the epitome of swank cars, is now all set to enter the world of multimedia ventures, announced Edzard Reuter, the group's chairperson. Currently, Daimler-Benz is holding "exploratory"
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Anthony McMichael on health risks from climate change
<img src="../files/images/20080430/48.jpg" align="left"> <i><font color="#FF0000">ANTHONY MCMICHAEL</font> heads the International Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, and is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He talks to <font color="#FF0000">VIBHA VARSHNEY</font> and <font color="#FF0000">MARIO D'SOUZA </font>about the health risks from global environmental changes </i><br><br> <b>What are the impacts of climate change on disease outbreaks?</b> <br>
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Early birds
Rocks 3.85 billion year old show that battered by meteors and supposedly sterile, ancient Earth still harboured life forms<br>
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In Short
toxicity unleashed: In a controversial move, the EU has legalised the herbicide paraquat even as the bloc's own risk classification and labelling lists the chemical as acutely toxic. The US, too, has
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In Court
common concern: A Montana jury ordered ChevronTexaco Corporation to pay us $40.3 million for environmental damage from a gasoline pipeline leak in 1955. The case is of potential concern for
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Farm Fires On Rise: Will Air Pollution Lead To Boost In Covid Cases In India?
India's Coronavirus tally stands at 69,06,151 cases with death toll at 1,06,490. Stubble burning in north Indian states like Haryana & Punjab is rising. Farm fires will lead to more pollution. On the other
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Burning quest
Should public health be sacrificed to waste? Garbage incineration is a trench war with clearly drawn battle lines. The Union ministry of urban development (moud) has been sceptical of wte. Social
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Ship breaking set to get a fillip despite blaze in Gujarat yard
six people died recently in a fire at the Alang ship-breaking yard in Gujarat. The issue of workers' safety and the environmental implications of this highly polluting activity have come to the fore
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Ecofriendly subsidies proposed
EU plans to give more weightage to environmental and public safety norms by amending agricultural policy
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INDIA
Punjab will soon stop doling out free power to the agriculture sector and introduce a tariff mechanism to elimi nate subsidies which will to wipe off the Rs 3,000 crore deficit the state has
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Fighting to break free
the political clout enjoyed by the pharmaceutical industry is evident from the fact that very few attempts at taming the malpractices perpetrated by it have succeeded so far. The top 20
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Come 2005
Or, why <font class='UCASE'>mohfw</font> should be worried
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The human body is nothing but chemicals
Which do you want first, the good news or the bad news?
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Antarctica blues
Indian scientists discover how living in the frigid continent affects the mind and the body
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Face off
Increases in the concentration of just two chemicals can result in dramatic facial changes
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Want to be fried?
I first learnt about slapp when we released a study about pesticides in colas. PepsiCo had filed a defamation case against us in the Delhi High Court and our lawyer, fresh out of law school in
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Life"s own alphabets
LIFE probably evolved from the primeval soup some 3-4 billion years ago, when the first complex organic polymers were synthesised in the form of a small chain of ribonucleic acid (RNA). Initially
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202 new industrial chemicals
researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, us, examined data on chemical toxicity and have identified 202 industrial chemicals that they say are
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After you quit
research from Pennsylvania suggests that smoking heavily for many years may activate a receptor in smokers' lungs that makes them more suscep tible to cancer. And once activated, the receptor
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Benzene in the air
Levels of carcinogenic pollutants are alarmingly high in Calcutta s air