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Besides its other decisions, the third Conference of Parties also resolved to empower native peoples to use and conserve biological resources in their lands
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Slumping research
A lot of debate over Indian science & technology (s&t) is focused around funding. Currently, India spends about 0.8 per cent of its gross national product on s&t, down from almost one per cent
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Pathogen paradigms
Foresight and planning are necessary to counter the new outbreaks of infectious diseases
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A no to yes
The Netherlands has weakened its decision to cut carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000<br>
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Happy high flying
On board oxygen generation systems could help in flying at higher altitudes <br>
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Deadly generosity
Eighty four nations may have agreed to ban the export of poisonous wastes, but major players in the trade like Germany could ruin the agreement even before it takes shape
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Encounter of the third kind
A third dam in their vicinity threatens the livelihoods of the Ibaloi tribals of northern Philippines
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Offshore encounters
The future of the Galapagos islands is at stake as fisherfolk and conservationists fight for its resources
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Oh, captain!
Retired captain Jai Narain Prasad Nishad, 66, minister of state for environment and forests, still looks every inch a soldier, wearing his 20 years in both the Army and the Navy with pride. And
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Running dry
Wetlands across Nigeria face threats from developmental activities<br>
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Metal miracles
Two and a half-year-old Avsar Khan was diagnosed for acute megakayo blastic leukemia (a rare form of blood cancer) at the Aga Khan hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1987. He was then referred
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Heaving under a heavy burden
iron may symbolise strength, but how many would be aware of the fact that too much of it causes lung damage? Who could ever suspect that a seemingly harmless name like cadmium could be a reason
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Robohelp
Two robots, Happy and Bashful, separated by the Atlantic Ocean, recently used the Internet to teach each other. One of the seven
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Watering down concern
groundwater depletion and land degradation have be come an integral part of irrigated agriculture in India. While the command areas of canals suffer from waterlogging and soil salinity, the
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Mid way solutions
the destruction of natural forests all over India to meet commercial demands and the needs of an expanding population has had a profound impact on its environment. Although attempts to tighten
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Crude rays
By modifying diffraction, the fundamental problem of focusing X rays could be resolved <br>
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UNITED NATIONS
On December 26, 1996, the Convention to Combat Desertification, a UN treaty aimed against formation of new deserts, came into force. It was one of the pacts agreed at the UN sponsored Rio summit in
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Cluster formation
In June last year when the Cluster mission was blown up because of a faulty launcher, most people thought that it was the end of the mission. But now the European Space Agency's Space Science
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Is life elsewhere?
A group from the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK has analysed the isotopic composition of samples from ALH84001, the original Martian meteorite and reported results that support claims of the