Mud housing is the key
Mud"s low cost and malleability makes it an ideal building material. But its use can be popularised only if such drawbacks as its susceptibility to moisture is overcome and misconceptions about mud housing are cleared.
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The Caspian affair
The landlocked Caspian Sea is a cauldron of geopolitics. Its essential ingredients: oil and natural gas
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Lost in the deep woods
IT'S a bit less than a conspiracy, a bit more than a fetish. Five international organisations have made forest conservation their overriding priority. The gigantic United Nations bureaucracy based in
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'There is a conflict in gene patenting in India and abroad'
ASIS DUTTA, a senior biologist at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is the first Indian scientist to have applied for a gene patent in the United States of America. Two years ago, he succeeded in isolating a gene which codes for an ideal protein
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Pampering potatoes
Potato storage seems to fare better with indigenous methods employed by farmers for generations
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'Coal will dominate at least for the coming 200 years'
ALEX C TOOHEY, a chemical engineer, is the chief executive of the World Coal Institute WCI , London. The WCI is a non profit, non governmental association of coal producing enterprises, with memberships from all the 6 continents. The WCI's mission is t
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Commoner's scientist passes away
Cyril Ponnamperuma's death leaves a void in the world's scientific community
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'I don't think future generations will be very happy with our performance'
Michael Jefferson is vice president of the London based World Energy Council WEC , an international association covering all energy forms. Jefferson has co chaired 2 main commissions of the WEC, the latest one involving more than 500 people. Nine Regiona
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A Pest Of A Problem
Cross border trade in hazardous chemicals and pesticides threatens the ecology with dire consequences. Sixty one nations get together to ward off the threat. This is important for developing countries as they lack the resources to manage these lethal comp
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Indian bridges on their last legs
A recent survey by the Union,ministry of surface transport has revealed the pitiable state of bridges in India
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Catching viruses
Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed countries
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Gimme eat!
In America today, the revolutionary question is not how to get food to eat -- it"s what and how much
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Malaria and the wrath of God
A WELL-KNOWN quasi-ecumenical argument against the existence of God is the existence of the mosquito: apart from being frustratingly acrobatic and musically demented, the little bugger serves no
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Of mice and men
Till September 1994, plague was s 'upposedly a forgotten disease in India. It caught the country's medics aghast at their own ignorance. But after its outbreak, medical authorities have taken
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The plague took us by surprise
ASHISH KUMAR MUKHERJEE is the Director General of Health Services DGHS , and as the country's topmost health bureaucrat, was the man in the hotseat when the recent plague outbreak occurred. He took over as DGHS in 1993, and the
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What Cairo did not discuss
THE Cairo conference turned into yet another example of the governments of rich countries bullying the poor ones into accepting their self-centred perception of how the world's natural resources
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North vs South
Developing nations should not sit back and allow the US to do the thinking. They should find a way of making their contributions meaningful and, if necessary, even lobby for EU support to fight US pressure
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Paper chase
PAPER is important, but so are forests. The proposal of the ministry for environment and forests to allow the paper industry to establish captive plantations on degraded forest lands, has provoked angry reactions from environmentalists. Many academics a
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Turning on the heat
The international community is being exhorted to enforce a greenhouse regime
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'We must teach science in a more hands on manner'
A professor in the department of chemistry, Delhi University, K V Sane has been instrumental in organising and directing a project on locally produced low cost equipment for chemical education that is sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Appli