A silent white revolution
Women living in a non descript village in Gujarat revive a defunct dairy, earlier run by men. Today, not only do they churn out 100 per cent profits, they also keep the dairy owners happy
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Dilemma over food
in a recent report, the Medical Council of Portugal said genetic manipulation of plants and animals could alter the environment and trigger health risks. "Rearing of genetically modified (gm)
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For cleaner air
A ban on registration of diesel run taxis in Mumbai is on the anvil
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CHINA
T ourist attractions in China will now be classified according to hygiene, communications, safety and protection of the environment. Declaring this, a senior tourism official of the China
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No airing secrets
Scared of losing tourists due to the haze, the Malaysian government makes air quality levels an official secret
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LE A D TO DEATH
Over 10 million residents of Dhaka are now having to contend with an ever increasing amount of lead in the air, a recent survey by the Shishu Hospital confirmed. This increase in lead content may
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Lead ing to disaster
Environmentally hazardous backyard smelting units swell as multinationals fail to recycle used batteries
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Search for the lesser evil
A Down To Earth survey of the civil society shows that when it comes to the environment, no political party in India has anything substantive to offer. But the Indian National Congress emerges as less objectionable than the Bharatiya Janata Party
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Guiding growth
When nothing seemed to stop the desertification of the Banni grasslands, a government institution stepped in and showed the people how they can regenerate their land
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LUNAR DRY DAY
An artist's rendition of the Lunar Prospector shows the spacecraft in lunar orbit. The Lunar Prospector hit the moon on July 31, 1999. The US National Aeronautics and Space
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Ban lifted
after a three-year battle , the ban on British beef exports has finally been lifted. On July 14, the European Commission ( eu ) ruled that sales would resume from August 1. The ban
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Appetite for danger
Jobs involving hazardous chemicals actually select people with the appropriate genes
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Ageing chromosomes
There is reason to believe that Dolly, the cloned sheep, inherited some of the wear and tear suffered by her six-year-old mother's cells. The ends of Dolly's chromosomes are shorter than those of
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Waiting for rain
from Virginia to Massachusetts, extending even as far west as Ohio, exceptionally dry weather conditions threaten eastern United States with drought. The National Weather Service has blamed the
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Chile choked
Pollution forces authorities to impose strict measures in Chile
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Doctor s call
As studies continue to mount on the dangers of air pollution, over one lakh doctors from all over India voice their concern
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Charting a new course
A unique drinking water project meets a long standing demand
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Radioactive leak
about 20 tonnes of radioactive coolant water leaked from an eight-cm-long crack in a pipe at a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, on July 12, officials of the Japan Atomic
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Humans vs mangrove
The estuary at the mouth of Ashtamudi lake in Kollam district of Kerala was once famous for its mangroves. Today, after more than three decades of wilful destruction, all that remains of the
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Beware flurosis is zeroing in on you
Water harvesting and conservation methods can turn the tide against the disease