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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

  • An honest challenge, a knave s escape

    the World Bank's ( wb ) attempts to sneak in funds for the potentially ruinous ecodevelopment projects in seven national parks in the country has finally been exposed. The Bank officials and

  • India has lost much to the West

    <font class='UCASE'>Lynn Crisanta R Panganiban</font> is a physician in the department of pharmacology at the University of Philippines, Manila. A toxicologist and an active member of the Pesticide Action Network, she attended the International Workshop

  • The can conned

    the colour is unmistakably red. The screaming television advertisements sell a lifestyle that makes red the desirable colour, the lifestyle "we've all been waiting for' and renders drinking Coke

  • Our kind of place?

    Our kind of place?

    we on earth have always had a special fascination for the other planets of the solar system. But there is more to the planets than meets the telescopic eye. Studies on the planets have still not

  • Carrying over

    Carrying over

    Solid waste management could benefit from adopting the traditional method of decentralised composting

  • SPOTLIFGHT

    Germane to India "Come hither ye men; come hither ye women; come one come together' is a cry often associated with Indian villages, but this one emanates from the Marxloh Comprehensive School's

  • The missing touch

    The missing touch

    A critique of the wildlife films produced by the Discovery channel

  • ...up the wrong tree

    ...up the wrong tree

    A report on the US ban on shrimp exports from India, which appeared in this magazine recently, has elicited a sharp response from Earth Island Institute, a US based <font class='UCASE'>NGO.</font> Reproduced below is an extract of the letter and CSE s s

  • Ignored treasures

    the Rajya Sabha chairperson's orders, that the House be kept informed of all developments in the water-to-petrol discovery by a

  •  Fighting to break free

    Fighting to break free

    the political clout enjoyed by the pharmaceutical industry is evident from the fact that very few attempts at taming the malpractices perpetrated by it have succeeded so far. The top 20

  • Sprucing up...

    Sprucing up...

    ...production techniques could go a long way in creating a pollution free milieu as the final aim would be to achieve a no waste company discipline

  • High-five

    Scientists are rediscovering the value of the unique combination of five products of the cow, especially as pesticide

  • Indian science is run by a mafia

    <font class='Question'><font class='UCASE'>p m bhargava</font> is the founder director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology <font class='UCASE'> ccmb , </font> Hyderabad. He has also been a former fellow of the Council for Scientific and Ind

  • Opting for a catastrophe

    the P rime Minister's announcement on September 10, that all fast track power projects requiring less than Rs 1,000 crore investment will be henceforth cleared by state governments is a clear attempt

  • Urbane and stupid

    Urbane and stupid

    Sitting in urban comforts and planning for a rural set up can only spell doom for any activity on the development front, for the village is a separate entity and not a smaller version of a city

  • In full gear

    What worries me more than the actual problem of vehicular pollution is that nobody is looking at it from a national perspective

  • Till death do us apart

    Till death do us apart

    Despite tonnes of evidence about the ruinous import of pesticides, humankind, especially in the South, are using just that much tonnes of it<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>&#149;</b></font> "Pesticides dwarf the other environmental risks the <font class="UCASE">us</font> -based environment protection agency <font class="UCASE">(epa) </font> deals with.

  •  India must have a proactive trade agenda

    India must have a proactive trade agenda

    Muchkund Dubey s crowning achievement at the end of an illustrious career as a diplomat was his role as India s foreign secretary during the Uruguay Round of negotiations. He spoke to <font class='UCASE'>Raksha Khushalani</font> in Kathmandu about t

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