Cancer congress
The battle against the disease intensifies
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Climate change, sustainable development and security are coming together, and Asia must drive the post-2015 global agenda and global goals
<p><em>Redistribution has been kept out of the agenda of the United Nations, and a new global agenda, goals and rules to share responsibility and prosperity can lead to a new world </em></p>
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Bhil traditions wither away with their trees
So dependent are the Bhils on trees, deforestation is eroding the very roots of their culture
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Democratising a democracy
Sustainability is the result of a socio political process which encourages learning from past mistakes and forces decision makers to change mid course
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From reservations to recognition
Pushed onto reservations and almost forgotten, the indigenous people of the world have finally got onto the international environmental agenda. The UNCED process has at least recognised that the concerns of the First People must be addressed
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Doha can still be a success
<p>Very different global rules are needed for human wellbeing</p> <p>Averting climate change does not need emission reduction pledges, timetables and a common legal framework.</p> <p>Climate governance
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A crisis overcome
The scourge of sickle cell anaernia buckles down to modern medicine as cytotoxins provide a possible cure
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Crime against nature
Commercial exploitation is virtually destroying biodiversity
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Business nonsense
The Globe is getting warmer. But the only contribution of US businesses is an advertising blitz and political arm twisting to discredit climate science
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A tale of two peoples
Just as <font colour=red>Brazil</font> and <font colour=red>Nigeria </font>lie Geographically parallel to each other along the Atlantic, the fates of their seem sealed in a similar fashion. The <font colour=red>Yanornami </font>of Brazil and the
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A Public Effort
Where the government has failed miserably in providing quality service to the people, some ngos have set an example on how urban waste can be managed. Vatavaran in Delhi and Exnora in Chennai are two organisations, which have set at rest doubts on the dif
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Traditional knowledge: Let the people decide
With the help of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, a premier scientific research organisation, the Patriotic and People-Oriented Science and Technology Foundation (PPST), a science-based
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The climate for a change
Are the nations of the world serious in their much touted efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions? VINAYAK RAO examines the motives, moods and manifestoes in the run up to the forthcoming climate change conference in Geneva
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Journey into the market-place
Papua New Guinea has come a long way from a society that began cultivating crops in 8000 BC and had no need for a market economy. It came in touch with the outside world just about 100 years ago. Today, it exports minerals and imports food. The people com
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Sex on the brain
The battle of the genders intensifies as scientists discover that the differences begin, and perhaps end, at one of the human fundamentals: the brain
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Purifying the Ganga
"The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India"s civilisation ..." - Jawaharlal Nehru
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Poverty abounds in bio rich areas
Complex systems of preserving biodiversity, evolved over centuries, have not saved traditional communities living in bio rich areas like India from poverty. Only if India starts patenting its germplasm can it compensate those of its communities which have
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An agenda of incoherence
The grossly inadequate education as imparted in our schools has to answer for our general insensitivity towards the environment