Third World posers for Northern donors
In the new environment sensitive atmosphere after Rio, two Northern agencies that aid research projects in the developing world are being compelled to question the dimensions of their role.
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From copycats to new stylists
HEADLINES about Ranthambhore sanctuary in Rajasthan are usually about its vanishing tiger population, but it was recently featured in the news for a very different reason. Artists from villages
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Developing CFC substitutes in India
THE INDIAN government has initiated a national project to develop alternatives to ozone-depleting chemicals. Four national laboratories -- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) in Hyderabad,
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The cost effectiveness of sky spying
Remote sensing can cut costs dramatically in certain applications.
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Did Riocentro learn anything from Flamengo park?
While heads of state deliberated on the future of the world at the Riocentro, social activists and NGOs expressed their sense of frustration over the dominant paradigm of development. They represented sharply differing perspectives
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Commission of omissions
After prolonged negotiations, what the Rio summit has produced is a weak and poorly represented commission on sustainable development
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'The most important thing we've developed is courage'
Neelamma, a Jainu Kuruba of Neralakuppe B , was the first president of the Girijan Vanvasi Mahila Sangha GVMS . Today, though no longer the president, she continues to work to help improve the lives of tribal women.
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Panel to smooth North South squabbles on GEF
A special committee is being set up to solve clashes between the industrialised and developing countries over national and international gains in environmental projects.
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Endemic encounter
Some children appear to have received close to 100 rads. The radiation has mainly occurred from iodine 131, a radioactive form of iodine that is part of bomb fallout.
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Ghose is dead
An ULFA press release says that Sanjoy Ghose fell to his death from a cliff in Arunachal Pradesh
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Exploring the spirit of Indian science
Two interesting congresses to be held soon will focus on indigenous science and technology. Another programme, launched recently in the Capital, is taking scientific concepts to the people and aims to promote awareness of scientific issues
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Waging battles for a better environment
Matanhy Saldanha has been associated with every major environmental campaign launched in independent Goa.
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Felling forbidden
Supreme Court order may benefit Andaman natives
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Juice no more
Fertilisers are leading to lower production of apples in Himachal Pradesh
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Statehood first, ecology later
Jharkhand"s leaders have successfully pressurised the Centre to consider granting autonomy to this region. But they have still not addressed themselves to local ecological problems
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Selling trees for rotis
THE morning hours in Barapal, near Udaipur, present a curious sight. Hundreds of headloaders crowd around the national highway looking for vehicles to transport charcoal or firewood
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'We can rule ourselves'
RAGHUNATHPUR is a large village of 350 households in the Chanho block of Ranchi district. It lies 55 km from Ranchi on the road to Lohardagga. Though Oraons comprise the majority of
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Amazon project: fight over funds, sovereignty and forests
IT is two years since western governments, in a fit of enthusiasm for green issues, proposed a US $1.5 billion "pilot project" to find ways to protect the world's rainforests. Meeting in
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Energy management needs top priority
It does not matter whether the assumptions made by the Tata Energy Research Institute are accurate or whether they will hold true. What matters is that TERI"s predictions of the country"s energy
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Pesticides are wiping out cranes
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>George Archibald</font></font> , director, International Crane Foundation ICF , USA, has been a regular visitor to Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur. In 1993 94, an attempt was made to introduce captive reared