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Experimental anger

More than thousand people, mainly students and researchers, took to the streets of Oxford, uk, to participate in a rally on February 25, 2006. Some marched in support of building Oxford University's
- 30/03/2006
- - Animal Care
  - Research
Adept at adaptation

Human genes are evolving with changing environment
- 14/04/2006
- Down To Earth
Wilidlife photography ain't that simple

Photographs of wildlife in controlled situations have fostered an exotic image of the wild
- 14/12/2006
- Down To Earth
- - Ecotourism
  - Wildlife
  - Tourism
  - Life Science
  - Information
  - Media
  - TV
Black attack

Has the Union ministry of environment and forests laid malicious siege to Dahanu taluka, in Maharashtra s Thane district?
- 14/12/2004
- Down To Earth
What a dump

Agartala has just one dump yard to cater to its 4 lakh residents
- 27/02/2005
- Down To Earth
- - Solid Waste
  - Garbage
  - Waste Disposal
  - Governance
  - NGO
  - Tripura
  - Agartala
News Snippets

 A coalition of environmental advocacy groups based in the UK participated in a weeklong protest outside the London headquarters of the major grocery chain, Sainsbury. Activists gathered every
- 14/07/2005
- - Tea
  - Milk
  - Children
  - Industry
  - Advocacy
  - United Kingdom (UK)
  - India
Online

www.ecoinfoindia.org Useful Information If you are a conservation planner or a researcher looking for information on natural resources, log on to ecoinfoindia.org. The website is a part of
- 14/08/2005
Phenotype factors

Nature, nurture and noise
- 29/11/2005
- Down To Earth
Online

http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/enviro.nsf/Content/BiodiversityGuide BIODIVERSITY AS A KEYWORD The International Finance Commission, the private sector arm of the World Bank, is on a reformation
- 29/04/2006
Human maze

Projected world population distribution in 2025
- 30/08/2006
- - Industry
Land factor

Dhurli village, Dantewada district, August 30, 11.30 am: Armed police in riot gear stand in clusters around the walled compound where people of this quiet, picturesque village are to gather for a <i>gram sabha</i> hearing. They are to decide today whether they want Essar Steel to set up a 3.2 million-tonne plant on their land for Rs 7,000 crore.
- 30/10/2006
Nothing for local communities

Economic considerations override conservation priorities in India s biodiversity act
- 30/12/2004
Wasted chance

The cement sector has another big potential
- 30/12/2005
For a common environmental ethic

Let s understand that species have both aesthetic and utilitarian values
- 14/03/2006
Dye farming

Cheap option to treat effluent
- 14/04/2006
- Down To Earth
- - Agriculture
  - Water Conservation
What is the Indian Social Forum all about?

Building another world, announced banners festooned near the entrance of Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. "Yahan mela laga hai kya? (is there a carnival underway here?),' the auto-rickshaw driver asked, as
- 14/12/2006
- Down To Earth
- - Tribals
  - Poverty
  - Human Rights
  - India
  - Delhi
  - Globalisation
Toxic dump in Karachi talk of the town

as many as 14 children suffered burns on November 3, 2006, when toxic material was allegedly dumped by Berger Pakistan (Pvt) Limited in Rahimshah graveyard in Orangi town in Karachi. The children
- 30/12/2006
- Down To Earth
2006: The waterloo year

T he year 2006 will go down as environment's watershed year. This is not because this year we have had extraordinary success in environmental management; there was also no environmental disaster <i>per se</i> . This year must be remembered because the task of environmental management has come to be even more contested and even more challenged.
- 14/01/2007
Living on the edge

Local pollution linked to birth defects
- 14/07/2003
- Down To Earth
- - Pollution
  - Health Effects
  - Health
  - Crematoriums
  - Mercury
  - Dioxin
  - Toxins
Happiness happens

Bhutan redefines development
- 27/02/2005
- Down To Earth