Buckling under
South Africa waters down proposed ban on plastic
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Good for a change A common pollutant strongly impacts the behaviour of arsenic and possibly other toxic metals in some lakes, shows a research conducted by us-based Massachusetts
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NO GARBAGE ZONE
The biggest garbage dump in Mumbai will be closed now, courtesy the Supreme Court. Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the resident welfare association of Chincholi Bunder area
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India
• Kochi has been selected as one of the centres for a major study, undertaken by the US-based Oakridge National Laboratory, to measure the phenomenon of global warming. • An
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INDIA
The Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment, Maneka Gandhi, has been selected for the Prani Mitra award for her services to the cause of animals. Many NGOs in Assam have
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Last call
Will the song of the sarus be heard when the wetlands of Uttar Pradesh are drained?
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One small step.....
Industry gets a new friend, philosopher and evaluator the Centre for Science and Environment s Green Rating Project, which will be the first instrument in the country to measure industrial firms on the basis of their eco friendliness
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Just passed!
The Indian automobile industry gets a rude shock: its pedestrian performance makes winners look like losers
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Royalties for folklore
DEVELOPED countries are busy increasing the breadth and depth of the intellectual property regime, using accusations of piracy. Yet, the innovations that multinationals have patented are heavily
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Powerful projects
A minister warns environmentalists to stay away from power projects
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Public property
It is good to hear Western leaders say the genetic secrets of human life should be used for public good
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Hot wealth
Microbes can spelifortunes and not alwaysfor their discoverers
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Bullied and packed
The popular concern for environment among the US public peaked in 1989. The membership and financial assets of a number of prominent national environment advocacy and action organisations, such as
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Industry at any cost
Industrial estates of Gujarat are cesspools of filth and environmental health hazards. Yet the government is blindly promoting industry
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MONEYMAKERS
* PATENT wars are heating up. British drug manufacturer Glaxo has won one patents case against a Canadian manufacturer, but faces a second against another. Both claim Glaxo's products -- stable and
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Devil s advocate
Tobacco major Philip Morris unveils its new death policy
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The tragedy of the tropical tree
FORESTS have always been the object of cornucopian myth-making. Their very location, usually on the margins of settled agriculture reinforced this identity. Nancy Peluso takes us into a realm
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Reform begins in the factory
scores of books have been penned on sustainable develop ment, but David Wallace's study provides a short and critical appraisal of global approaches to sustainable development. The structure of
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Murky deals
Notwithstanding accusations and criticism within state government agencies themselves, for almost two decades units at the Ankleshwar industrial estate were functioning without drainage connections,
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Gold plated genocide
The third gold rush is threatening to relic the last of Amazon's indigenous people