More of everything?
Increasing acid rain. Higher temperatures. Water scarcity. Shrinking farmlands. Reducing biodiversity. This is what the years leading to AD 2050 have in store for us
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Pesticides, food additives and scientific lies
MORE than 70 new chemicals are registered every hour in the US alone. The public - battered and bemused by daily press reports about the dangers of smoking, pesticides, pollution and food
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Patents Vs Patients
WTO's conundrum: cheap drugs for poor countries or protecting North's business interests
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Agriculture: Don't fix is the government's fix
It can be said that Union budget, 2007, is high on symbolism and intent. Most people in and close to power acknowledge that something is spoiling booming India s party price rise, agricultural
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Ultrafast healing
Ultrasound therapy can quicken the healing of lingering fractures
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Governments should try for 100 per cent pure water
HANS JEURING is the chairperson of Codex Committee on Pesticides Residue CCPR . It is responsible for establishing maximum limits for pesticide residues in food commodities, and comes under the Codex Alimentarius Commission CAC a UN body that sets fo
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The right chord
A new safe method to detect anaemia in foetuses
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Ayurvedic surgeons hooks out guinea worms
A surgical technique developed by an ayurvedic team has drastically curtailed incidence of dracontiasis, a disease caused by guinea worms, in southern Rajasthan. So successful is the technique, the team's leaders were invited to Africa last year to teach
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Environment, genes and mutations
Pollutants in the environment cause dreaded diseases like cancer by mutating some genes. Scientists have begun to explore the human genome to trace these genes
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Non smoking beedi rollers face cancer risk
About six million people employed in India's beedi industry risk developing cancer from handling tobacco leaves
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Poisoned staple
Death, food shortage in Kenya due to aflatoxin infected maize
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Winding roads to welfare
Humans just do not live by bread alone. But to climb the steps leading to total welfare, somewhere that equilibrium between work and consumption has to be achieved
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A tradition that got washed away
For more than a century, the people of Motepur used to build an earthen dam on the Punpun river every two years. Today, wage labour has replaced voluntary service and a cement dam threatens to blot out a unique water harvesting system.
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Business nonsense
The Globe is getting warmer. But the only contribution of US businesses is an advertising blitz and political arm twisting to discredit climate science
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Development Deathtraps
Bonded labour, environmental devastation, abject working conditions... the stone crushing units of Haryana are a shame
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River conservation
Only a very small section of the country s urban population benefits from sewerage systems and this section consists of the richest urban people
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Pudgy babies have the edge
Recent studies indicate that the greater the weight of babies at birth, the less prone they are to heart disease during their riotous adult years
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Losing appeal
The book says that common chemicals and plastics may be affecting our hormonal systems, affecting foetuses and our future generations and causing, perhaps, a fall in intelligence
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Ridding Delhi's brothels of HIV
An organisation of sex workers struggles to combat the spread of AIDS in Delhi's red light areas.
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Here come the "number crunchers"
India's attempts at developing supercomputers have not only paid off, they have sparked intense competition.