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What Stockholm displays is a societal commitment to dean up. Cleaning up the water took decades but the city's commitment remained unflagging
What Stockholm displays is a societal commitment to dean up. Cleaning up the water took decades but the city's commitment remained unflagging
Violinist turned environmentalist Aubrey Meyer has coined the phrase "contraction and convergence" and set the world thinking on the lines of equitable per capita emissions, whoever we are and whichever part of the world we belong to
The government's notification on plastic will have little effect on the industry or the environment. It is merely a move to silence opposition to the plastic bag
The subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UN FCCC met from June 2 12 1998 in Bonn, Germany. A good part of the deliberations was spent in addressing the issue of land use change and forestry LUCF , and their tre
Thailand threatens to take the US to the WTO for allowing a Texas based company to use "jasmati" as a trademark for a variety of rice
IF AN agricultural idea finds favour with farmers, you scarcely need an extension service to ensure its spread. But if it does not find favour, then you can double the size of the extension service
Germany is swamped in a controversy about a study which says sustainable development can be achieved only when the consumption of resources is reduced and relations between the North and the South are more equitable
Indians will have to fight a war with themselves to protect their environment, society v and culture from the ravages of economic growth
Farmers of the world are under attack. A new technology threatens to make them totally dependent on multinational corporations
IN RECENT years, ecology has emerged as a major research topic and its historical aspect is being keenly analysed. The period between the 17th century to the early 20th century, when most of the
VEENA KALRA, who is with the department of paediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS , New Delhi, is conducting research to determine the lead levels in blood among children and to identify the source and magnitude of the problem of lead
The subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UN FCCC met recently in Bonn, Germany. These were the first formal FCCC meetings since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol at the Third Conference of Parties COP 3 in De
A proposed new law threatens to abandon farmers to the tender mercies of seed corporations
KOK KEE CHOW, Current Chairperson of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technical Advice
Just get the state out and water profligacy will stop and people will start worrying about their neighbouring water sources and watersheds
WITH the 21st century being projected as the biotech century, proponents and opponents have often been engaged in a war of words on various issues