Nurturing plants with caresses
Evidence suggests plants have a nervous system that enables them to respond to touch.
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Doha can still be a success
<p>Very different global rules are needed for human wellbeing</p> <p>Averting climate change does not need emission reduction pledges, timetables and a common legal framework.</p> <p>Climate governance
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Big mini revolution
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Uttarakhand hills with solar power don’t prefer ‘taar wali bijli’
<p>It was half past four in the evening when we reached <em>Garbadhar</em>. It took us about 4 hours and two flat tyres along the <em>Kali river</em> from <em>Dharachulha</em> to get there. The Border
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GAP told to clean up its act
A Supreme Court order has put the fate of the ambitious Ganga Action Plan in doubt
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When participation holds sway
Gouditikra in Orissa provides a model of how community participation can transform a village
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Too close to the sun
The internationally funded programme to promote solar photovoltaic systems remains a nonstarter
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Waste behind bars
Waste recycling and optimal resource use is giving the Capital's prison a new purpose
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Heights of degradation
Himalayan conservation gets a start at a recent seminar in the Capital
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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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Revamp forest policy
The local communities have done a good job in regenerating degraded forest lands
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Trade off human rights and the market
The clarion call of open markets could override the North's 'insistence' on linking trade with human rights and environmental issues
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In the red with green measures
European companies fear that the plethora of environmental protection laws may blunt their competitive edge
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No more bribes, Gujjars tell foresters
The prospect of being kept out of forests they have occupied for 50 winters, on the pretext of environmental conservation, the Gujjars of Uttar Pradesh have finally taken a stand against the avarice of forest department officials.
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Dinosaur age ministers
Naik s statement implies that a poor country like India, which otherwise wants to be declared a nuclear power, is so incompetent and third rate that it must live with pollution
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As clean as coal
India dithers on cleaner coal technologies. But it has the technology to help the thermal power sector clean up its act
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Bringing the cinema home won't be easy
Electronic companies worldwide, who are trying to develop a new generation of televisions, are finding the going tough
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Beating the hell out of death
Industrial houses and research organisations must join hands and rethink about Indian health standards
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The green race begins
Given the rich California's zero emission target of 1998, manufacturers have started producing eco friendly cars
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Aluminium's birth defect
The extraction of aluminium from its ore is a highly polluting process