Cat sense
Conserving the Malabar civet is good economics
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Gamana Sagar's lady doctor
AS WOMEN in Rajasthan insist on being treated by only another woman, Jagaran is making an effort to recruit women as gunis. One much sought after woman herbalist is 42-year-old Laxmi Bai of Gamana
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Chemical free abundance
After years of killing his fields with pesticides and fertilisers, a sapota grower rediscovered cultivation without chemicals
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Chasing an eccentric monsoon
FEW WOULD disagree that the monsoon in India is almost unparalleled in beauty, but not many realise the subtle nuances in the workings of nature that makes this season possible. These curious
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Cry neem
There is more to neem than fighting a patent
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Drying wetlands
Ladakh's high altitude wetlands are under severe stress from the livestock population as well as tourist influx
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Food tripping
WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE . USA A study conducted by the Worldwatch Institute has found that distances between the sources and destinations of food in the US and elsewhere in the world has grown by
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People's forests
A workshop in Nepal on community forest use brings to the fore environmental gains of the concept
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Black valley
Experts say that intense shelling during the recent Indo Pak conflagration in Kargil had a disastrous effect on the environment
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Counterpoint: Ropeway to Alto?
How access could change Nepali villages forever
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Water use is excessive in rice cultivation
Farmers in India are using 25 times the amount of water that agricultural scientists say is needed to produce paddy. Improper irrigation methods and misconceptions are the stated reasons for the high wastage of a scarce resource.
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Creating a family tree for rice
Scientists at the National Chemical Laboratory are working on rice biotechnology in order to develop more nutritious varieties of the cereal.
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Uncertainty increases over convention terms
As it comes under increasing scrutiny, the biodiversity convention signed last year is proving to be neither good nor bad just uncertain. Key questions still remain unresolved.
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The hunt for green gold
A NEW breed of gold-diggers are on the prowl. In the search for plant species yielding new medicines and better crops, rich and relatively unexplored ecosystems are now resounding to the tramp of the
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Accounting green doles
THE World Bank's (wB) staff have recently prepared a report -Mainstreaming the environment -docu- menting the progress made by the Bank in its effort to emerge as an active partner in implementing
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Mother and nature...both?
STUDIES on the interrelationships between gender, poverty and environmental change in rural India remain a grey area, tackled by very few economists, a notable exception being Bina Agarwal.
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An empire withers away
Recent findings suggest the Akkadian empire, which once flourished on the banks of the Euphrates, collapsed because of a sudden dearth of water.
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Ways of evaluating forests
Some examples
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Profit and loss in a market economy
As per capita private consumption declines in the country, the number of its poor is increasing.
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Did rains fail?
Or the forecasting system?