At the feet of poverty
THE Aravallis, the oldest and hoariest mountain range in India, are today some of the most barren sentinels in the country. At the foothills of this range, which extends all the way from
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Jaded greens
Green philosophy has suddenly come under strong criticism from those ruled by economic logic, so much so that in the first few months, books lambasting environmentalism and debunking their theories
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Avoiding goitre
SOS for a Billion deals with Iodine Definciency Disorders (IDD), which constitute the most common preventable cause of mental defects in the world today. But IDD can be tackled at a very modest cost
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Flawed but valued
THF use of live clues to monitor changes in the environment is probably the simplest definition of biomonitoring. In the above sense, it is a rather traditional practice. It has, however, proved to
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Energetic debate
THE extraction, transportation and conversion of fuels and the end-use of energy have resulted in a wide range of environmental problems. It is tempting to believe that development is the most
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The 20th century Nostradamus
WITH the advent of the modern era, people had long began conjecturing about the future, maintains Barry Minkin. Which way will the wind of change blow? This is the focus of the book in
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Bear truths
THIS is a delightful portrait of the now' extinct Ursus spelaues, largest of the bear family. Known to have coexisted with the Neanderthal human and later, with humans of our own spe Icies
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The ways of the wild
PATTERNS of the Wild was screened at the India International Centre in New Delhi on February 24, 1996. It is a documentary on the primal theme of the preservation of wildlife and biodiversity.
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Let all have a say
the issues of environment and ecology are intricately embedded in the socio-economic milieu in India. The coexistence of a substantial number of forest-dependent tri bals and the mismanagement of
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The altar is no alternative
In this paper, the brothers Ashish and Miloon Kothari have ably examined the effects of the new economic policy (nep) on India's environment during the post-reform period (1991-1995). They strike
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Beyond politics
this book is about transnational environmental activist groups. It describes their politics and analyses the strategies they employ to bring the environment to the fore front. The focal point of the
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Whither food security?
RELEASED at the Food Summit in Rome in November 1996, the book presents a disturbing account of India's agricultural production status and mismanagement of resources by the government. The book,
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A North South conflict
biotechnology and bioresources are two issues that have been in conflict for a while. Biotechnology, proposed as "the technology of the next century', has its proponents in the developed countries
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Biodiversity & ethics
THIS book records the proceedings of the satellite symposium on
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Of maggots and murder mysteries
AN entirely new breed of detectives has come up in the USA - the forensic entomologists. Detectives were stumped at the discovery of a 34-year-old man's decomposing body,'with a bullet through
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Yeast genes spring surprise on scientists
Chromosome III in yeast, the first to have its DNA fully described, opened up a wealth of new genes whose functions are completely unknown
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Tissue culture technology facilitates to hike yeild of tasty coconut
The tasty, popular coconut species of Thailand, kati, could not be produced in large scale because it is infertile. But scientists have now found a way to overcome its sterility
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Ants forage at 'safe' temperatures
The silver ant -- Cataglyphis bombycina -- is the undertaker of the Sahara desert -- a role it has been forced to adopt because of its own body limitations and because of a small lurking, desert
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Ice caps may grow in higher temperatures
Research shows that a warmer earth may not melt polar ice and cause sea levels to rise, as has been feared so far.
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Study finds sperm count decreasing worldwide
Scientists cannot explain why both the quality and quantity of sperm have been dropping since the 1940s. Indications are pollutants may be responsible.