UN dangerous chemicals conference
Delegates from over 120 countries began a week of UN talks on Monday in South Africa to hammer out a final treaty to curb and, if possible, ultimately ban the global production and use of persistent
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Smoking hastens death, TIFR data shows
Despite all advice from health experts, you thought a few cigarettes a day wouldn't harm you? Now, there are some real figures to substantiate the earlier evidence that smoking brings out premature
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Centre preparing database of Himalayan medicinal plants
The Centre has launched several programmes to conserve and protect a number of medicinal plants found in the Himalayan Region. The Botanical Survey of India has prepared a Red Data Book listing the
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Talks start on accord to ban toxic chemical output
Delegates from more than 120 countries began a week of talks in South Africa on Monday to devise a global treaty that conservationists hope will ban production of some of the world's most dangerous
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Nature is taking a hammering from the law breakers
Ghana's environment, and industries such as logging and tourism that could contribute to economic success, are threatened by deforestation, desertification and pollution : a
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Paris gives emergency $416m aid for farmers
The French governemnt yesterday unveiled a FFr3.2bn ($416m) emergency package to help farmes and the meat industry offset the impact of the latest scare over bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE),
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Ethical practices may have prevented outbreak in Sweden
A high-profile debate over ethical practices in farming in the mid-1980s has probably saved Sweden from an outbreak of BSE, with many measures now being taken elsewhere in Europe already in place
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Number of HIV cases rises 40% in 3 years
The number of people in England and Wales who are infected with HIV, the Aids virus, has risen by 40 per cent over the past three years and will increase by another 40 per cent over the next three,
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First ever workshop on king cobra in Chennai
For the first time in India, a four-day workshop on "Captive Management and Husbandry of the King Cobra" will be held in
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50% of Ulhasnagar water not potable, lab results show
Even as the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) gears up to combat cholera, latest laboratory reports have pointed out that 50 per cent of the water samples collected were not
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Government seals 700 polluting units
About 700 polluting units have been sealed by the Delhi Government after being pulled up by the Supreme Court last month. The number, however, is far lower than what the Delhi Government
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Protesters disrupt climate meet
Several dozen environmental protesters sneaked into a United Nations climate conference and disrupted high-level negotiations over how to reduce global emissions of greenhouse
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Medical superglues inject seal of success
A UK company is using superglues' "stickability" to tackle one of the most delicate problems related to human tissue-repairing blood vessels in the brain. In an application tha might come from
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Ebola researchers report progress on vaccine work
Gary Reynolds isn't a scientist, but he was one of the first people to realize that an experimental vaccine was apparently protecting monkeys from the deadly Ebola virus. That was the first time,
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Seals loom as a fisheries threat
The once threatened fur seal is now so abundant in Victoria that commercial fisheries are being affected. Severely reduced by hunting and culling until the early 20th century, the number of
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Miracle cure needed for Nigerian Aids surge
Nigeria's Aids infection rates trail behind the worst-hit countries in south and east Africa. But at 5.4 per cent of the sexually active population-according to 1999 figures-they have crossed the
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Hunger still stalks some Asian nations, says FAO
The number of undernourished in the developing world is falling but hunger, fuelled by war and weather still stalks some Asian nations, a senior Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) official said,
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Clinton creates huge underwater nature preserve in Hawaii
Against a backdrop of pictures ofcolorful fish, leathery sea turtles and endangered Hawaiian monk seals, President Clinton today created the largest United States nature preserve, 84 million acres
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369 waterholes created for Gir lions
As many as 369 waterholes have been created in the Gir Sanctuary-the only abode of Asiatic Lions-for supplying water to them, according to Gujarat's minister for forests and enviornment Kanjibhai
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Village infrastructure to cope with environment conference begins
Participants in a conference on rural housing to cope with environment stressed on using indigenous building materials and local technique to face natural hazards. The two-day international