Miracle medicine
Bananas that are actually vaccines. Potatoes that kill bacteria. Tobacco plants that fight tooth decay. Medical science has more tricks up its sleeve
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India State of the Environment Report : The Monthly Overview, September 2013
The Kerala government has decided to appeal against two national green tribunal orders that said that the government should take note and adhere to the recommendations of the Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report while approving private and commercial development in eco-sensitive zones. Read more in this September 2013 edition of the Monthly India State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
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Will the Aral Sea ever come back?
"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of the world"s fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea, tell a graphic tale of the human toll caused by am of the w
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Biogas can solve nation's energy problems
Both government and voluntary agencies are helping to spread biogas technology, which can provide clean fuel and enriched manure as well as improve sanitation standards.
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Choking slowly to death
The Damodar is the most polluted river in the country today, thanks to the several industries that have sprouted on its mineral-rich banks. Experts say the only way to save the Damodar valley is for these highly polluting industries to make massive invest
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Children and passive smoking
A pregnant woman exposed to cigarette smoke can pass on the harmful smoke constituents to the foetus
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marburg hemorrhagic fever: Following two cases of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Uganda, scientists are collecting bats from the country's lead and gold mines where the victims had worked. Around five
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Hands shackled
Repetitive work done by hands can lead to serious nervous disorders, from numbness in fingers to permanent nerve damage
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Packaging plastic policy
It is time we examined the whole issue of packaging, plastics and recycling
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No monkey business, this
Monkeys are more knowledgeable than humans about the medicinal value ofplants
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A year of despair -- and hope
PRODUCING a newspaper or a newsmagazine is something like an unending string of little miracles. As technologists designing new machines well know, "if anything can go wrong, it will." The same
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No artificial flavours
British researchers have come up with a programme that tones down the use of artificial chemicals on farms heavily
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Feathers, nails, bones and blood!
Time has come for tribal medication to be revalidated
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Big bite
As the malaria parasite and its mosquito carrier become increasingly immune to pesticides and drugs, a recourse to vaccines seems to be the only option
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Problems behind the pugmarks
Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary the home of the endangered Asiatic lion to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh to save the big cat could mean people trouble. The forest dwellers in both areas sense that their lives wi
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Real remedy
Scientists say that they can now 'produce' blood vessels
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Think happy thoughts
It could be for your own good
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Scientific Indian
My friend, V Nanjundiah, of the Indian Institute of Science us in Bangalore has asked me a very pertinent question: why cannot Down To Earth cover more on Indian science? I am sure it can; I
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Borne again
Why is malaria, an easily preventable ailment, showing signs of resurging in all its fury, and what are we doing to contain its marauding steps?
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Delhi government
Utterly confused. Speaks for polluters who have business interests in scuttling CNG