Wars of the green kind
WILL HE go? Will he sign? Will he give money? All these and many more questions on the behaviour of the US President George Bush are threatening to overtake the Earth Summit at Rio. Bush's cat and
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Rough weather ahead for wetlands committee
The newly-formed combined committee on wetlands, mangroves and coral reefs faces a big challenge from heavy encroachments and popular opposition
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Feathers, nails, bones and blood!
Time has come for tribal medication to be revalidated
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What is Sustainable Development?
Sustainable development, the buzzword in environmental circles, is largely misunderstood. It can only come about in a society which can learn from its mistakes in handling natural resources. This new column gives our readers the background of cont
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Ravaged region
JHARKHAND stretches from Bankura district in West Bengal to Surguja in Madhya Pradesh; and from Santhal Parganas of Bihar to Sambhalpur in Orissa. Approximately 1,87,646 sq km in area,
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'Their capability to pay arises out of their high level of exploitation'
Union minister for environment and forests Kamal Nath's attitude to the UNCED summit is a curious mixture of pessimism and optimism. He is unhappy over what he feels is the "rigidity and inflexibility" of some of the greatest polluters in the world. Yet,
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Food Safety in Pakistan
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Food safety in Pakistan</strong></span></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/pakistan/foodsafety_hl.jpg" style="width: 530px; height: 300px; border-width: 2px; border-style: solid;" /></p> <p>Over the last few decades, the question of ensuring adequate food safety standards has evolved into a much more complicated problem with a series of interconnected factors to be considered. The evolution of science and technology such as the development of high precision analytical equipments and improved agricultural and preservation techniques have made it possible to obviate the manifold safety hazards.</p>
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Water wonder
Buhanpur Municipal Corporation in Madhya Pradesh revives a unique underground water system of the 17th century, Khooni bhandara, to solve the city's water scarcity problems
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Fruitful passion
One man has helped transform a barren valley in Jammu into a veritiligle orchard
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No conversion!
A court order honks trouble for those that have tampered with their cars' catalytic converters, but prosecuting authorities seem stranded at crossroads for want of adequate rules to bring culprits to book
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Mad hatter's tea party
Some US based environmental wisemen started out to debate Bihar's problems, sans field knowledge, and went back home foot in mouth
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Justice? What justice?
THE Supreme Court has been passing quite a few orders on environmental cases of late. It is, in fact, now common for journalists to somewhat affectionately refer to -one particular judge as the
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Outbreak Outrage
There is a suspicion among African biomedics about the well projected linking of the continent's environment with the emergence of lethal viruses like the evil Ebola Zaire
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In troubled waters
After having forced into extinction many different species of animals, human beings have most recently focused their greed on fishes in the deep seas. Being sweet, tender and easy to cook, the deep sea fishes have attracted the attention of many a chef
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Cauvery: manage demand, not supply
OCCAMISM and chicanery marked the latest in the annual ritual of the Cauvery dispute, with the Prime Minister, P V Narasimha Rao, ordering Karnataka to release six thousand million cubic feet
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Uproar over a burning issue
With rising awareness regarding the hazards of incinerating waste, a lot of proposals for incinerators have been ruled out in the West and the search for a viable alternative is on
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Nuclear day dreaming
A cloud o criticism forms over the proposal to set up a high power nuclear plant at Kudangulam in Tamil Nadu
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The pitfalls of protection
To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good intentions
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'Hole' of a problem!
As concern for the ozone layer mounts, two more chemicals have been found to have a degenerating effect on the protective shield