Population prompts progress
The experience of a Kenyan community contradicts a traditional theory that population and development are inversely proportional
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Catch a falling star...
What on Earth are comets? And why do they behave whimsically like they do?
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The victims of vanity
The culture of `businesslike" individual enterprise is playing havoc with the age-old collective wisdom of communities that plan for the common good
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Imminent deluge
Asian countries risk becoming the dumping ground for the world"s burgeoning waste trade
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This land is our land
If anything can help Papua New Guineans find the "unique way" enshrined in their Constitution, it is their traditional land ownership system.
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Ethics dumped
The world over, the pockets where the poor live are used as environmental dumps. PAUL WAPNER debates the environmental ethics of International politics
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Garbage to gold
In Bombay, simple technologies are being used to convert garbage into fuel and biofertilisers.
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Malnourished Children
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>S K Kabra</font></font> , associate professor in the paediatric pulmonology division of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi talks to <font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Nidhi Jamwal</font></font> about
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Under international censure
The Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station has managed to secure a World Bank loan of $400 million, but the allegations of environmental degradation levelled against it are mounting
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Environmentally unsound
Union budget 2002 03: all the right noises, all the wrong measures
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Closed systems, open minds
The Centre for Science and Environment CSE has been doing research on health and environment in the public interest. But most government agencies, which are there to serve the people, not only refuse to share information but also create obstacl
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Amongst footloose workers
Reminiscences from a visit to Alang about 10 years back
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Operation Desert Swarm
Locust swarms are the bane of farmers in more than 66 countries. Small wonder then that the locust is the only insect that has a global committee working to outwet it
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Deadly bloom
Holland's thriving tulip flower industry is under pressure to clean up its act and save the environment from degradation caused by excessive use of pesticides and fertilisers
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CoP 8: Nothing's brewing
For a fortnight, 1,456 delegates from 167 countries sat in conference halls, attended plenary sessions and roundtables, and sized each other up over a cup of coffee. In the end, CoP 8 didn't witness any scintillating intellectual and moral leadership from
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Green eye in the sky
A voyage into space for a three dimensional monitoring of the polluted environment
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New age ad
Advertisements need to be sensitive about health and environment issues
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No entry to Dutch plant
Pakistan"s environmentalists say no to dumping of obsolete and hazardous technology by the West
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Staple diet on the rot
Tonnes of potatoes rot due to the dysfunctioning of two cold storage units in West Bengal, polluting the eco system and upsetting the economy
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A timely exposition on petroleum
INDIA'S interest in petroleum has grown rapidly. Understandably so, because the investments made are large and the returns fair, and could be even more attractive if we priced it properly. But,