First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
India
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The government backflips
"India would need power by the time Arun III dam stal1$; producing electricity," said Nepal's Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikary in response to a question by Down To Earth during his visit to
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Potent surgery
Vasectomy may not be all it's cut out to be
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Profile of Arun III
LOCATION On the Arun river in Sankhuwasabha district,about 200 km east of Kathmandu TOTAL POTENTIAL OF THE ARUN BASIN 1,045 mw
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Waste not, want not
Fourteen tonnes of UK's nuclear waste lands at an earthquake vulnerable site in Japan
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Disaster down the pipe
A major pipeline explosion exposes the danger posed by Russia's 140,000 km long high pressure gaslines
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Sick system
Is the state healthcare system a health hazard?
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MALAYSIA
The grandiose Bakun dam project (Down To Earth, Vol 3, No 4) in Borneo is once again in the thick of a mess of its own making. In late April, the Malaysian government's department of
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The kiss of death
An early monsoon and increasing drug resistance spark off malaria fatalities in Assam
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Full steam ahead
Geothermal power is sparkling clean
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Cheaper than the sun
The US firm, Amoco-Enron Solar Power Development Corp of Houston, Texas, has proposed a solar photovoltaic (SPV) power plant in Rajasthan's Thar desert. The 150 mw project is estimated