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WASTE WONDERS: This had to happen: domestic and other wastes can go into making objects of daily use. A Canadian company, Low Energies Extrusion Technologies, uses flyash, clay, wire scrap and
WASTE WONDERS: This had to happen: domestic and other wastes can go into making objects of daily use. A Canadian company, Low Energies Extrusion Technologies, uses flyash, clay, wire scrap and
One of the most lucrative pisciculture activities today, shrimp cultivation in India was recently given a devastating body blow by a mysterious lethal virus. Author tracks the beast
At the recent Berlin Climate Summit, amid North South wrangles, an agreement was reached to detail how to and who has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Four Franciscan Mary Missionery (FMM) nuns who have rebelled against the Church are in the forefront of a struggle for the restoration of tribal ancestral lands illegally occupied, mostly by
People pump out water as if it rains underground. There is no shortage of water but a dearth of application of mind
International aid agencies and local people do not agree on what tastes like real water
Greenpeace sounds a red alert about toxic waste imports into India at workshops across the country
Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke belching, spit and gum contraption a Maruta
Professor Alexei Yablokov is head of the inter departmental commission for ecological security under Russia's National Security Council. He recently resigned as advisor on environmental and health problems to President Boris Yeltsin. Yablokov, 62, has a
France obstinately plans to ahead with nuclear testings in the South Pacific just after the NPT conference held by the Big 5
How good are the North's offers of joint implementation programmes with the South to cut the latter's carbon dioxide emissions?
although the importance of Himalaya-Karakoram as the largest storehouse of fresh water in the lower latitudes, and the important role of their snow and ice in maintaining the flows of the Indus,
Indian fridge manufacturers are juggling their options for a substitute for ozone-depleting substances and some are looking at a revived technology that will no longer make them dependent on Western companies.
Scientists working on department of science and technology's high altitude projects face a bleak future
ANIMAL welfare activists in India have never adopted the path of physical violence taken by a section of those who protested against live cattle exports in England earlier this February. They do,
Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just concluded assembly elections.
Applause and international funding of a forestry project greenwashes the cruel realities of the people living there
Children from all over India recently came together bursting with ideas on how to build a cleaner country
Particles in diesel exhaust are toxic and can harm the foetus. Given the high levels of particulate pollution in Delhi, CNG is the cleanest option available
The US is hopping mad about Chinese outfits copying and selling American products