Road to Buenos Aires
The US strategy, calling for joint action by industrialised nations in the Pacific Rim to reduce carbon emissions, comes under fire from the European Union
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Is India's Environment Safe?
<div><span>Shri Jairam Ramesh, the Minister of State for Environment & Forests should indeed be complimented for reviewing the clearances given for Vedanta (Bauxite Mining), POSCO (Steel Plant) and a few other projects. I welcome these decisions. They have certainly set a new trend in environment governance in the country. </span></div> <div> </div>
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Saurashtra Coast
Pushed out by salt
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Bay watch!
A SATELLITE picture of the Earth, taken at night, would show a steady stream of light along the world's coastlines. Half the world's population - about 3.2 billion people - live and work within
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Losing jobs in the jungle
Irula tribals are rich in the knowledge of traditional medicine. They used to catch snakes and practise herbal medicine for a living. Today they have had to abandon their traditional occupation as wildlife laws do not permit it
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Borne again
Why is malaria, an easily preventable ailment, showing signs of resurging in all its fury, and what are we doing to contain its marauding steps?
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Landslide of terror
Mountain slopes in a seismically active zone, weakened by human interference, collapse following rainfall to claim more than 300 lives in the Himalaya
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Catch the wave
Underwater versions of wind turbines could soon make it easy to tap tidal power potential
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Where have the groves gone?
Overexploitation, skewed pricing policies and inefficient utilisation have laid bare the bamboo"s vast reserves. While local communities clamour for the resource, and possiblities of sustainable use abound, governments dole it out to industry. Arunachal,
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Growing fences
Burgeoning population and agricultural encroachment in the last half century have erected artificial walls within the Gond tribes. These ethnic groups, dominating the Bastar district, have little social or economic interchange today
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Trial by fire
The Union Health and Family Welfare ministry finally accepts an Ayurvedic treatment of leukaemia
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Water polo
Just get the state out and water profligacy will stop and people will start worrying about their neighbouring water sources and watersheds
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Quarry in quagmire
Caught in a death trap, Jharia residents await doomsday. While BCCL openly displays a let them die attitude and the government remains silent, people continue sitting on fire
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Trading air
Nations seemed to be in a frenzy about the need to begin trading in the atmosphere. The most striking feature about Bonn was the horde of corporate executives with their multinational briefcases ready to start buying and selling pollution rights.<br> In
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Hardwar: Not without help
The malaria control operations have been successful only because of help from a large public sector corporation
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Kheda: Forgotten glory
This is where it all started. And now, there is no sign of past successes
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Drying wetlands
Beyond the tigers of Sunderbans: A closer look at the leeches and the beautiful blue devil
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Facing onslaught!
While new diseases emerge every year in the forests of India, there is little scientific research to deal with them
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Mobile mayhem
Using that mobile phone might boost your business, but it might fry your brain
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Filth is food!
Making the best of the worst could be the underlying theme behind the garbage revolution in Nigeria