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safe fuel: Norwegian researchers have started testing a new type of fuel designed to burn plutonium without breeding it. If successful, it could help rid the world of its stockplies of plutonium
- 14/10/2000
- Down To Earth
THE FUTURE OF CLEAN ENERGY

A simple chemical reaction is the basis of fuel cell technology. Fuel cells run on hydrogen to provide electricity. The only byproduct is water vapour. Clean, environment friendly, exciting. But haven t we heard too much about them already without anythin
- 30/07/2000
Troubled times

As the Lok Sabha gears up to vote on the crucial Aquaculture Authority Bill, thousands of fisherfolk launch an indefinite stir
- 14/07/2000
- Down To Earth
Beware the modified wolf

Will bureaucrats choose to throw farmers and ecology to the mercy of multinational corporations by preparing the way for cultivation of transgenic cotton in India?
- 14/07/2000
A Nationalised Nightmare

One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large scale destruction of the environment. Now, the danger is not just from accidents that kill. For the residents of coal tow
- 14/07/2000
Dispirited agreement

Reviving the ethanol programme, on paper
- 14/09/2005
- Down To Earth
MEF stumped

State governments badger the MEF to implement its own proposal of industrial plantations in degraded forests
- 30/03/1995
- Down To Earth
- - Industrial Forests
  - Madhya Pradesh
Current solutions

This time round, US secretary of energy Hazel O'Leary's visit to India was a successful business trip
- 14/03/1995
- Down To Earth
Power bait

Following in Maharashtra's footsteps, the West Bengal power department has unveiled a package including time-of-the-day (ToD) metering and tariff concessions to cut costs and raise non-peak hour
- 27/02/1995
- Down To Earth
Bangladesh damns Indian dam

A proposed Indian dam releases a flood of protests in Bangladesh
- 14/02/1995
- Down To Earth
Arunachal sealed

Says no to reservoir-based dams; Centre-state clash imminent
- 30/07/2005
- Down To Earth
Water and common sense

The New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) was the only non-governmental organisation (NGO) from the South to participate independently in the World Water Fair, held simultaneously
- 29/04/2000
- Down To Earth
- - CSE
CHEMICALS ALERT

Despite protests, a tainted company tries to set up a fungicide unit
- 14/04/2000
MAIght of OECD

A no holds barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs
- 30/03/2000
Lest we forget...

Amid the blind rush of consumerism, a stall on air pollution was the sole voice of sanity
- 14/02/2000
- Down To Earth
- - Automobiles
In defence of ostrich farming

Promoting ostrich and emu farming in India s drought prone districts could be a boon to farmers
- 30/01/2000
- - Drought Prone Areas
  - Farmers
  - Birds
  - Technology
  - Research
  - China
  - India
  - Andhra Pradesh
  - Uttar Pradesh
Haul your own garbage

Vadodara's residents show that handling garbage hands on is the best way to beat municipal overload
- 14/09/1994
- Down To Earth
One up

Monsanto wins a landmark victory in Britain
- 30/12/1999
- Down To Earth
Nettin' in the bad guys

The Internet is fast becoming a powerful weapon in the hands of voluntary groups for tying up in knots the hitherto omniscient international business shoguns, forcing them to retreat ... because now the world knows of their dirty games
- 29/06/1996
Planter of Indore

A zoology professor motivates people to plant trees in memory of the deceased
- 14/12/1999