Where have all the sparrows gone?
The friendly chirp of sparrows is less heard today. The birds are in decline in India and in many other parts of the world they are considered pests. Sparrows feed on leftovers from cleaning grains.
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When did Oxygen appear on Earth?
oxygen, which makes up about 21 per cent of the Earth's atmosphere, might have made its appearance on the planet million of years earlier than what scientists had earlier thought. An analysis of a
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Wetlands are priceless
In economic terms, they are worth US $70 billion per year
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Blackout
the Developing World
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Dual crisis
Overfishing also harms wildlife on land
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Shame, shame
Climate Change
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Farmer friendly
Australia's federal government recently decided to compensate farmers for the cost they will incur in following new environmental laws. The country's agriculture minister Warren Truss said since the
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Political dredging
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has flayed the Union ministry of shipping, road transport and highways for showing undue haste and irresponsibility in launching the Sethusamudram Canal
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Game for wind power
In what is being touted as a "global first in sporting history', the Manchester City Football Club (mcfc) is set to power its City of Manchester stadium and neighbouring facilities in East
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• Singapore has witnessed 8,308 dengue fever cases in 2005, including seven deaths. This is nearly double the number of infections in the same period in 2004, when the number of cases reached a
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Flight of green fancy
British Airways (ba) passengers can now be
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• Seventeen countries including Brazil, Australia and the UK have in a written statement urged the Japanese government to stop Antarctic whaling. • A Stone Age man found frozen in the
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Genetically modified technology is absolutely price neutral
<font class='UCASE'>Graham Brookes</font>, an agricultural economist and director of the UK based PG Economics limited, a research and consultancy organisation, has authored a study on genetically modified <font class='UCASE'>gm</font> crops. He talks to
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It s an open source technology
G V Ramanjaneyulu, extension scientist and executive director, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
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Centre close to finalising captive coal mining policy for small scale industries
New captive coal mining policy for small scale industry
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IN SHORT
green gdp: According to the China Green National Accounting Study Report 2004, the country suffered economic losses to the tune of US $64 billion
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Oil friction in Nigeria
VILLAGERS in southern Nigeria's southern Rivers state have vacated two of the four oil-pumping stations they had occupied in a dispute with oil companies operating in the country's southern delta
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Not a good career option
As governments keep assigning functions to the panchayats, the pressure is showing in the performance of the elected representatives. "When I got elected as sarpanch, I thought I would do a lot for
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Goa must grow but how?
The official blueprint Goa currently follows is the Regional Plan 2001. It was notified in 1986, and today there is unanimity that this plan has become redundant. For two compelling reasons
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Clamping wheels
Policy tools for managing parking demand A survey of literature from across the world shows demand for parking is infinite and no amount of supply can meet it. But carefully priced parking