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www.waterjournalism.orgHealthy initiative In 2004, five mainstream journalists and a producer from All India Radio teamed up with the Bangalore-based non-profit organisation, Communication for
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Single point fuel injection
Chhattisgarh is a lesson in biodiesel realities
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Reactors renewal
A plan to extend the life of Hungary's only nuclear power plant has sparked protests from environmentalists. The four reactors in the southern town of Paks supply around 40 per cent of Hungary's
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Environment, genes, and breast cancer
New evidence on an old killer
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New method of extracting edible oil
It may now be possible to bio-engineer plants to produce more oil. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore have come up with a new mechanism to produce more oil. They have also
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New whine
Global warming portends disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar us wine industry; areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 per cent
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We require private expertise
<font class='UCASE'>naip</font> s national director, Mruthyunjaya, has now been catapulted into a managers role. He talks to <i>Down To Earth</i> in his first ever interview to the media
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NEWS SNIPPETS
• The Madhya Pradesh Congress distributed 50-paise pouches of the extremely addictive gutka to shore up its chances in the recent Lok Sabha bypolls in Vidisha, a largely rural area near
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Goa regional plan has public up in arms
After a delay of over six years, Goa has a 400-page blueprint for development. But the Goa Final Regional Plan 2011 has environmental groups, urban planners and the public up in arms. They want it to
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Update
The government continues to approve special economic zones (sezs) on a regular basis and the finance and commerce ministries continue to slug it out. The dispute between the two ministries over
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Mega problem
Nanotechnology threatens the economy of poor nations
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Biotech for all
Can information sharing make
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Snippets
• Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's (CNSC's) president recently said it was discovered last year that the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited secretly dumped thousands of litres of hazardous
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Spoilsport
Court Verdict
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South Asia
Polluted fabric: Most textile factories in and around Bangladesh's capital Dhaka do not comply with environmental laws and cause severe pollution, the Bangladesh government's Directorate of
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Land for oil. And nothing else
Jatropha is more important than anything else. Even common pastures and biodiversity
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The rating game
The Green Rating Project (GRP) of the Centre for Science and Environment was designed to track environmental performance in key industries in India. It monitors the impact of industrial growth on
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Torrid times
The 20th century was the hottest in 1,200 years
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Polluters penalised
Sponge iron plants to pay farmers
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Falciparum fallacy
Changing balance causing malaria menace