Restrictions won't curb population growth
THERE are few words in the English language as evocative as population. Most tongues would wag it as something uncontrollable. It also evokes the notion of pressure, of human flotsam spilling over
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The EPA is a weak agency
<font class='UCASE'>Armin Rosencranz</font> , the founder and president emeritus of the Pacific Environment and Resources Centre in California, US, spoke to <font class='UCASE'>Madhumita Dutta</font> about environmental conservation in his country. He
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WELTEC BIOPOWER Accomplishes Market Entry in Belgium
<div> Biogas Plant to Generate Power and Heat for Textile Industry</div> <div> </div> <div> The Belgian investor and project developer NPG Energy has requested WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH from Vechta,
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No money for labs in antibiotics research
Though increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is making it difficult to treat diseases such as malaria, pharmaceutical companies do not consider it profitable to invest in research for new drugs.
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N C Saxena
NO FIRM data are available to account for the extent of loss of forest cover in India or the annual rate of deforestation. In fact, estimates vary so widely that a degree of combativeness
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A Gandhian economist ahead of his time
Kumarappa was a close associate of Gandhiji and a firm believer in the theory the village must be made the focus of economic planning. Aware of the dangers of unchecked industrialisation, Kumarappa advocated that human beings should collaborate with natur
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Awareness growing about Amazon destruction
GEORGE Monbiot's book, for which he risked his life, is a delightfully lucid piece of serious investigative journalism on the ecological destruction of the Amazon, which he describes as
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The world isn't just Big Macs and Coke
How many people can the earth sustain? While the world feverishly computes the answer, it must not forget that sustainability is not just feeding people; love and solidarity also play a prominent role.
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Whose ivory is it anyway?
Does global intervention make for better environmental management? Not necessarily. The ban on international ivory trade to protect the African elephant is a case in point
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The politics of inefficient irrigation technology
Call it is one of the unknown Indian ironies. Over many years, the Indian state, through its public irrigation agencies, has systematically taken over the management of surface water systems. It has
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Welcoming the pirates
The issue of genetic resources today has apparently introduced a new dimension to national security . Though some scientists are making desperate attempts to develop protection models, the government and the official scientific establishment prefers to
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Keeper of the nation's water kitty
MADHAV Chitale, former secretary in the ministry of water resources, is a recipient of The Stockholm Water Award, given by the Stockholm Water Foundation for outstanding work in the area of water management. Currently secretary general of the Internationa
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Temperamental disease
Patients who are hypertensive inside a doctor's clinic are more likely to develop heart diseases
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MONEYMAKERS
inexpensive cures: Drugs to combat the HIV virus may become cheaper in Uganda, Cote d'Ivoire, Chile and Vietnam. Pharmaceutical companies, Glaxo Wellcome and Hoffmann-La Roche have decided to cut
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'Orangi is not unique, I am'
Akhtar Hameed Khan is one of Asia's foremost social organisers. The Orangi Pilot Proiect, Karachi's outstanding slum development programme, testifies to his innovative approach in empowering ordinary people to transform their environment
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Saviours turn killers
madhya Pradesh's (mp) government and its forest bureaucracy have found an innovative way of earning notoriety: destroy whatever tree cover exists in the biodiversity-rich state. Unable to mow down
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Discordant notes dash empowerment dreams
A clash of opinions has put paid to all hopes of a consensus on the empowerment of people living in and around national parks and sanctuaries
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One water, one country
THE history of water management in the Netherlands is remarkable for the technological feats down the ages, till as late as the '90s. But there is another story that geography books always ignored.
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'Water planners ignore social issues'
Nepal is slated to be a major hydropower supplier in South Asia with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Australian government for a US$ 590-million 360-megawatt project on the Karnali river. But Nepal"s big projects, like t
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Blind to rain
Gujarat s minister for major irrigation projects needs to understand that big dams alone do not add up to water management