Cadavers in the water
The thousands of corpses of the brutal gun and machete civil war in Rwanda have been dumped into the second largest fresh water lake in the world.
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Russia's nightmare
Thousands of chemical weapons, once abandoned by the military, are coming back to haunt Russia
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Glaxo pulls out anti malaria drugs
pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is recalling its malaria drug Lapdap and has discontinued development of another malaria drug, Dacart, saying the drugs can lead to anaemia in some patients.
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Ouch, it is a mutation
Do headaches, stomach upsets and several other minor ailments have their roots in the speed of genetic mutations?
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The cost of gene info
A debate rages in England over the possibility aind scope of insuring genetic information
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Rising green heat
Scientists have discovered a new greenhouse gas, which is thousands of times more effective in trapping heat as compared to carbon dioxide
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Gatt's new avatar is a demon
An extraordinary session of the US Congress meets in December to approve the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade amidst fears that its new incarnation will undermine US sovereignty.
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Going to town with agriculture
Helped by a proactive government, residents of Havana resort to urban agriculture to solve their food crisis
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A head for figures
Scientists find two different ways the brain does maths. This could be a boon for children who do not learn maths in their mother tongue
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Vultures on death row
Human persecution is the main cause behind the high mortality of vultures in India
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INDIA
• The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has constituted a committee to montor the implementation of the rules of hazardous waste management. M G K Menon, former minister for science and
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Seeding the seas?
Sprinkling powdered iron into the ocean may help reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide
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Multiple confusion
Despite its detractors, metal therapy evidently enjoys the confidence of some satisfied users
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What price the constitution?
Breakthroughs in genetic engineering have led to questions on the ethics of such experiments. Should scientists alone be steering the decision making process?
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Canine calamity
REELING under economic hardships, people of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Are afflicted these days with a new problem - an army of 10,000 stray dogs infected with rabies. The authorities have
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Pakistan State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, November, 2013
<p>The Global Climate Risk Index 2014 has ranked Pakistan among the three most affected countries worldwide for three consecutive years by climate-related catastrophes. Read more in this November 2013 edition of the Monthly Pakistan State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.</p>
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A primate as messiah
APES might come to the rescue Oour AfDS-infected planet. After a pro- longed period of deliberations, the us Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the green signal to a revolutionary
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Estimated social cost of climate change not accurate, Stanford scientists say
The "social cost" of carbon dioxide emissions may not be $37 per ton, as estimated by a recent U.S. government study, but $220 per ton. The economic damage caused by a ton of carbon dioxide emissions
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Gas gobbling algae
Carbon dioxide emissions from power plants can be reduced by a process involving algae, sunlight, and a little common sense
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What's it all about?
classification of dyesM Dyes can be classified according to their chemical structure or according to their use. However, classifications vary from agency to agency though there are some fundamental