TALL CLAIMS
A lawsuit filed in the US district court in San Francisco has accused three pharmaceutical firms -Boots Co of UK, BASF AG of Germany and its US subsidiary Knoll Pharmaceuticals -of covering up a
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SAFE MEASURES
In a bid to protect the ecology of the Kumarakom bird sanctuary, the Kerala High Court recently directed the state government and the Taj Kerala Hotels and Resorts Ltd not to cut,
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Energy project
THE ministry of non-conventional energy sources (MNES) is considering a Rs 1.09 crore 'photo voltaic' project in villages under Vaishali and Patna districts of Bihar. In the first phase of
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Forest matters
There is an urgent need for a global environmental watchdog alerting the global civil society to the designs of our governments
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Relevance of history
History provides important lessons in the management of the environment for administrators, conservationists and their ideologues. But have we really learnt anything from the past?
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Tall promises
The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor farmers
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'Calcutta is sifting on a time bomb ... '
DIPANKAR CHAKRABORTI, director, School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University has done significant work among people affected by Arsenic poisoning in West Bengal. According to him even Parts of Calcutta are affected. One of the ways to combat
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Lethal gambit
The failure of the government to ban lethal pesticides, used to control the spread of malaria, poses a hazard to human health
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Ancient wisdom
THIS book is an interesting collection of twelve papers on traditional water harvest ing systems, a much neglected issue in the water policy. The list of authors contribut ing papers to the
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Rising from the ashes
Today more than two thirds of Japan's land area is under forests as a result of a state sponsored afforestation drive which actively involved the farmers
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Fallacy in figure
During the 1980s the rate of destruction of natural forests was reduced as compared to the 1970s. Most of the deforestation took place in the forests of the dry deciduous zone
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N C Saxena
NO FIRM data are available to account for the extent of loss of forest cover in India or the annual rate of deforestation. In fact, estimates vary so widely that a degree of combativeness
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Beginning afresh
Shell, the multinational oil giant, vows to clean up the Niger Delta
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Science spoof
SCIENTISTS are not saints. Neither are they modest, nor do they believe in the con cept of loving one's fellow-folk. That, unfortunately, is the impression that one is likely to get after
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Genetically high
Researchers in Israel say that the tendency to abuse heroin arises partly from one's genes. According to them, a handful of genes playa role in a wide variety of addictions and that there is a link
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Without a trace
Medicinal plant biodiversity is rapidly vanishing in India and the government has still to come up with a plan of action
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A R Maslekar
ANIL AGARWAL has raised many important points regarding the status of India's forests with reference to the SFR 1995 by the PSI and the FAO's assessment for 1980 and 1990. The paper commends
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On the banned wagon
The European Union will now refrain from exporting hazardous wastes to developing countries
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S Shyam Sunder
MY INITIAL response is on the tenor of the article, that foresters are responsible for the mismanagement and degradation of forests. I feel that India continues to have forested areas only
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The I0C experience
INDIAN Oil Corporation (IOC), a leading petroleum refining and marketing company, is a "low-profile, high-performance company" with a proactive approach to environment manage- ment. All its