Enzymes for environment
Reducing chlorine use in paper industry
News
-
-
Online
www.mediacarta.org right to communicate "We have lost faith in the institutions of the mass media'. This refrain is also the main theme of www.media.carta.org. Media reform is, according
-
The Birds II
This story reminds one of the Hollywood blockbuster of the 1960s that changed the way many people looked at birds. Gigantic flocks of the quela quela (Quelea quelea) bird have attacked rice and maize
-
SNIPPETS
• US president George W Bush has signed the country's energy bill that provides billions of dollars of tax subsidies to energy companies. Despite this, the high gasoline prices in the US won't
-
South Asia
FISHING LICENCE: Fisher folk associations in Sarawak are up in arms over the renewal of foreign chartered vessel licences in the state, claiming the government broke a promise made to them by the
-
NEEDED: detox for killers
Norwegian scientists have found that killer whales, or orcas, have overtaken polar bears in toxic content
-
Farmer harmer
Will agricultural income be taxed?
-
Snail s place
The New Zealand government recently okayed a move to relocate a population of 250 rare native snails, which were holding up the development of a coalmine. State-owned mining company Solid Energy
-
Sweltering issue
Trinidad's capital recently witnessed a protest against a proposed aluminium smelter when about 200 people lit candles, sang hymns and marched through a park claiming the smelter will harm the area's
-
Audate
The World Trade Organization's (WTO's) mini-ministerial at Geneva on July 1, 2006, ended in a stalemate, with India pulling out of the trade talks. India's commerce minister Kamal Nath walked out of
-
Way of life
We want our land, heritage; not the dam
-
IN COURT
Lebanon to sue Israel: Lebanon is preparing legal action to sue Israel for damages over a huge oil spill, which occurred when Israeli warplanes bombed the Jiyyeh power station on the Mediterranean
-
Hong Kong's air threatens business
HONG KONG's deteriorating air quality is driving away foreign professionals and threatening international investment. A survey by the American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, has found that almost 40
-
Party time
But who pays Goa is a tourist paradise. But tourists need more than just sun and sand. In its defence of the Regional Plan, the government says, "Goa's economy was initially based on mining.
-
How do we view the Bawaria community?
Are the Bawarias of Rajasthan hunters, nomads or a tribe of criminals?
-
Health Inc.
Private health sector needs to be guided so that it contributes to national health goals
-
Risky move
WB s U turn on hydropower
-
Wanted: Repair
Desk Study on the Environment in Liberia
-
The acre feet fuss
But Punjab and Haryana farmers depend on groundwater!
-
News snippets
• Rwanda held a traditional naming ceremony