Golf courses
is the lush green deceptive? Consuming an average of 1500 kilometres of agro-chemicals every year and water which can quench the thirst of nearly 20,000 people, golf courses are far from eco-friendly
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Gene therapy helps heart
Researchers in New York have injected a gene that stimulates the growth of new blood vessels directly itno diseased heart muscle with positive
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Need for safe breeding grounds....
Gahirmatha in Orissa, this year, has sprung a major surprise to turtle conservationists. As a result of mass-nesting, 200,000 to 250,000 turtles nested on the two km beach within a span of ten
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Too many private jetties spell doom for Gujarat coastline
A major ecological disaster is waiting to happen on the Saurashtra coast where an increasing number of captive jetties and private berthing platforms are coming up to enable cargo ships and even oil
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Deforestation taking its toll
Rapid deforestation in Mahendranagar (Nepal) has turned nearly 13,000 hectares of forest-covered zone into barren land within a span of 12 years, according to District Forest Office (DFO). According
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Leprosy eradication drive comes a cropper
The week-long leprosy eradication drive launched by the Delhi Government early this month has brought this out in full measure. While the campaign launched by the State Government has come a cropper
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Anna Hazare impressed
Quite pleased by watershed and sapling plantation programmes in Kakanoor and surrounding villages in the perennially drought-affected Mahbubnagar district, the social activist Mr. Anna Hazare, said
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Log volume exaggerated by importer
Thai-Korean Veterans' Welfare Co, one of four Thai importers of Burmese logs, has inflated by a thousand-fold the volume of logs it wishes to import, in its application to the Forestry Department.
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Groundwater impacted by fire-fighting foams
Fires resulting from plane crashes are fought using aqueous film-forming foams (AFFF) that are formulated to act quickly by spreading a film of water over the burning fuel that subsequently
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Petition filed against tobacco manufacturers
A public interest litigation case has been filed in the Supreme Court demanding greater governmental control on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, and the payment of Rs 500 crores by tobacco
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Ethics and AIDS drugs
Some countries like US want to suspend patent and trade laws to get lower-cost medications to the poor : a
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Cities responsible for health of planet
According to a study conducted by Ms molly o'meara, author of "reinventing cities for people and planet", urban conglamorations account for roughly 78 per cent of the carbon emissions form human
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Oswal plant may resume operations
The fertiliser plant of the Oswal Chemicals and fertiliser Ltd (OCFL) at Paradip, prohibited by the Orissa Government from operating its dap plant and sulphur conveyer system after the recent fire
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Plants live longer on Viagra - researcher
The lifespan of plants, fruit and vegetables could be doubled with a dose of the impotence treatment drug Viagra, but the cost would be punitive, an Israeli university researcher
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Findings on Nipah virus to be made public
The Health Ministry in Malaysia will publish a report on the Nipah virus, including findings by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in medical journals once the analysis of the
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Oh baby! 6 billion souls now populate the planet
You're not just one in a million, baby, you're now one in 6 billion. Or, as Amer Mokdad might have whispered in his triplets' ears yesterday when the world's population broke another billion: You're
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Japan's move on labelling may anger US
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has issued a report on how genetically modified organisms should be categorised, in what is seen to be the first step towards mandatory
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Digital rights and wrongs
Computers were supposed to be threatening copyright. Instead, they may end up making it stronger : a
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Dabur to tap global markets for cancer-related drugs
Dabur is joining the lague of pharma majors going global by planning to manufacture and market cancer-related drugs at
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Creating synergy
A decade after its implementation, the Joint Forest Management principles have been adopted by nearly 20 states in