It's curtains on sound and light
EGYPTIAN scientists Y I Hanna and M M Kandil of the National Institute for Standards in Cairo have designed and tested a double-layered curtain using local textiles which absorbs sound and light to
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Off the diesel track
Daewoo is the only transnational company in the Indian market that is not interested in getting on to the diesel bandwagon. In an interview with Down To Earth , Anuj Pattanaik, general manager marketing of Daewoo Motors India Ltd, explains the reaso
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Craning at the treetops
Washington's Wind River Experimental Forest will soon have an unusual inhabitant: a 90-metre-high steel-and-concrete monster. In a $1-million project, a giant crane will help scientists study life
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Unmasking aerosols
Forget health impacts, tiny particles floating in the air are altering regional climates and affecting monsoon patterns and agricultural yield. These particles could be emanating from diesel and industrial emissions, biomass burning for cooking, forest fi
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Shrimp farms in muddy waters
Recent protests by villagers of Puddukottai, Thanjavur and Nagapattinam districts in Tamil Nadu, against mushrooming shrimp farms near their settlements, have forced the state government to establish
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Vitamin C helps smokers
A piece of good news for those who cannot give up smoking -- take a lot of vitamin C and you could avert heart and lung diseases caused by cigarette smoke (Nature, Vol 370, No 6489). A team of
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TAXING SOLUTIONS
Implementing bans needs commitment
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Abandoned to fate
Though private bus operators will have to shoulder a bulk of the responsibility of phasing in CNG buses, they were the last to be informed by the Delhi government. The first public notification for
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Threatened marine life
two-thirds of the uk 's fish stocks are on the verge of extinction and most of the country's coastal habitats have been destroyed. This was stated in a report of the World Wide Fund for
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A caution unheeded
Heavy metal content in food was found to be above the critical level 20 years ago
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General Electric sued
new york's attorney general filed a lawsuit against General Electric Company (ge) to put pressure on the industrial giant to dredge parts of the Hudson River that has been contaminated with
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Knowledge and despair
Age old tribal and indigenous know how could be lost to marauding urbanisation
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Saving Chilka
TWENTY-ONE members of Parliament have petitioned the Prime Minister to save Chilka Lake, a major wetland in the country. They have protested against the state government giving advance
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Up against mining in Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
A Swiss firm Xstrata's plan to establish a massive opencast lead and zinc mine near the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia, is facing stiff resistance from the region's indigenous communities. The
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Tackling Corruption
Fighting corruption requires a determined response
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SENEGAL
The sea of Senegal is bearing the brunt of overfishing and pollution. The fishing policy of the Euro pean Union has wor sened the problem of overfishing in these waters. The eu trawlers are
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Political see saw
What is good for the environment in Himachal Pradesh seems to depend entirely on political ambitions in the state. HP governor Gulsher Ahmed's decision to revive proposals for huge cement plants in
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Devastating showpiece
The Dakshina Kannada district will become Karnataka's showpiece of industrial development, the state government has been saying. However, a study begun in 1993 has projected a rather depressing
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ECUADOR
The president of the Dallas-based Maxus Energy Corporation, Roberto Monti, got an unexpected bouquet of rose flowers while addressing the recent Inter-American Petroleum and Gas Conference in
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Sewer river
The countdown to the cleaning up of the Yamuna has begun. The Supreme Court sets a deadline