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The ice cover almost 4.8 km thick is perhaps the most valuable feature of Antarctica, with its record of past atmospheres in the trapped air bubbles
The ice cover almost 4.8 km thick is perhaps the most valuable feature of Antarctica, with its record of past atmospheres in the trapped air bubbles
Catch 'em young What have been the achievements of independent India and how much further does the country need to go to fulfill the dreams and aspirations of her people? To commemorate the 50th
Only a very small section of the country s urban population benefits from sewerage systems and this section consists of the richest urban people
Poor rural women in India need easy access to and control over forests
Should the police be put in charge of sanctuaries and the locals who live near these? Should India be made into a police state?
Growing grass in the desert of Rajasthan would improve the economy
We live in a world where nobody wishes to yield an inch
iodine is an essential element involved in maintaining relatively constant conditions in the body and in the constitution of thyroxin, a hormone necessary for the regulation of growth and other
International cooperation in the protection of endangered species can be built on a totally different set of principles rather than trade bans
There is no organised people s movement to arrest forest depletion in northeast India
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red><b>Richard Grove</b></font></font> , a noted environmental historian from the Australian National University, Canberra, takes an active interest in the climatic and ecological aspects of India s colonial history. He fir
CITES is a weapon which can be used only by the armchair rich against the oiling poor
INADEQUATE access to sufficient food has been a persistent problem faced by humankind through the ages, so much so that famines and the calamities associated with them find mention in the
HARD truths need harsher frames. Especially if the truths deal with the excreta that the dominant model of development in India produces when it squats on its way to concrete progress. And
Indians probably never cared much for centralised governance systems. History is full of examples from the days of Kautilya when rulers stabbed each other in the back for petty gains
Development policies based on Gandhian philosophy, rather than consumerism, are the best bet for tackling current environmental and development problems
Agriculture and its subsequent effect on the environment, rapidly depleting natural resources like arable land and water, the slackening of the green revolution and the loomingprospect offeeding India's growing population have been the subject of in
Urban living ought to aim towards the sustainable symbiosis of nature and architecture