Sweet death
Red rot, a fatal fungus eating into the sugarcane crop in western Uttar Pradesh, has left India drastically short on sugar. BIJOY BASANT PATRO finds a countryside caned to death
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Blinded by figures
By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads took precedence over critical issues such as women's nutrition and education
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Peer Review
Environmentalists express their views on the chief minister of their states
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Indias Green India Mission extending bureaucratic control in the name of decentralization?
<p>One of the eight Missions under India's National Action Plan on Climate Change, the <a href="http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/GIM-Report-PMCCC.pdf"><strong>revised National Mission for a Green India (GIM for short)</strong></a> professes responding to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures, which would help:</p>
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Global Sustainable Development Goals: The Unresolved Questions for Rio+20
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Preparations for the Rio+20 United Nations conference on sustainable development have begun, but the first round of
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Rocket row will delay space plan
Act 1 (18 April): Yeltsin suspends rocket technology transfer to India following the threat of sanctions by USA. Act 11 (26 April): Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao assures Parliament
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Resentment sets fire to Nagarhole
NEARLY eight weeks after the March 14 fire that damaged a portion of the Nagarhole National Park and Reserve Forest -Asia's largest deciduous forest - the debate is on as to what happened on that
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Keep forests...shall feed
The Northern model of conserving tropical forests by completely eleminating humans from them will spell ecological disaster, and may aimed more at protecting the agricultural export markets of developed countries than enhancing global biodiversity
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Of barren hills and barrel smoke
Militancy has destroyed much more than peace in Kashmir. Kalashnikov trotting extremists are ravaging the last green frontiers of the 'heaven on earth'. Even the Army is accused of active complicity. Eco vandalism has certainly emerged as a lucrative deal
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Hour of the green crusader
A third party candidate a renowned green lobbyist has the US ballot watchers in a tizzy over possible outcomes of this year's presidential polls
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Quo vadis
What, really, is the destination of the Indian Railways (IR)? Is it capable of meeting the growing demands? What is the reason behind the pathological dependence on import of high-cost technology? Is electrification the answer? G K KHARE, chairperson, Rai
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About Clean Air Portal
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About us
<div> <strong>What happened to our right to CLEAN AIR! </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> Our campaign started with blowing the lid on smog and exposing the smogmakers in a city where
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Diehard
Toxic pesticides used by developing countries wing their way up to the Arctic region, affecting the Northern climes, and find their way into the human system through water, and some life-forms dependent on it. The situation is so alarming that some enviro
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Charge of the right brigade
Lithium batteries, with numerous advantages over their ancestors, are scientists' new obsession as the ecofriendly cells
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Neemm manim, what else
The brouhaha about neern patents gets a forceful rebuttal
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Blood on its hands
Industry in Asia's largest chemical unit zone is like a terrorist outfit, devastating the atmosphere and, reportedly, killing people
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Conservation boomerang
Can protected areas survive the multitude of pressures without the participation of people? Neena Singh explores the issue
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Fish ticuffs
A grassroots level fight is on in the Philippines against big trawlers fishing in other people's waters, and related problems
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Standing the test of drought
After the 1999 monsoon failed in several areas of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, there is a serious drought. Summer is a good four months away, and already there are reports of riots and deaths over water. But several villages are well equipped to face the w