Project impact reports ignore effect on health
A comprehensive study deplores that health care has become a marketable commodity
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Deceptive ashtrays
Smokeless ashtrays devised to protect non smokers are not all that effective, as it was believed
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INDIA
The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board found the Ganga's water near Lucknow unfit for consumption. Three outlets tested had a paltry oxygen content; toxic effluents offloaded by
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A bit of iodine in my salt
A nation stands divided over the government s proposal to lift the ban on non iodised salt
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Major battle for minor stuff
Trilbals dependent on the jungle's gifts fight it out in Bilaspur district
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Green peace in black curls
Traditional tea cultivation in China"s Jinuoshan area, unlike in most other places, ensures ecological balance
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Tax the rich and help the poor survive
WHAT DOES the International Monetary Fund have to do with land degradation? On the face of it, nothing. But in reality, quite a lot. A degraded landscape in an increasingly integrated world is
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Sweet rediscovery
A staple for many Asian and African nations, sweet potato is only now beginning to catch the attention of scientists
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Miracle cure?
Is the new Indian anti cancer drug any good?
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A year of despair -- and hope
PRODUCING a newspaper or a newsmagazine is something like an unending string of little miracles. As technologists designing new machines well know, "if anything can go wrong, it will." The same
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Manipulating Research
Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning more on industry sponsorship and less on government or charitable foundations. A major fallout of this alliance
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Nurturing plants with caresses
Evidence suggests plants have a nervous system that enables them to respond to touch.
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Cries of anguish
Most Indians are defenceless against the fine toxic particles in the air largely products of vehicular emissions and scientists are finding newer and deadlier things about pollution. Surprisingly, this is not confined to metropolitan cities. Evidence
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Shame puts the cork back in liquor bottles
Campaigns by women have been successful in curbing alcoholism among their menfolk in Manipur and Andhra Pradesh, but similar efforts have failed in Haryana and drinking there has increased.
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Tried and tested
Traditional medical and agricultural practices, usually dismissed as unscientific, are regaining favour, with some help from Honeybee a journal that documents rural wisdom.
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Thinking afresh
Agriculturists in India are gradually moving away from chemical pesticides and fertilisers;
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The efficient way of looking at waste disposal
Urban waste will cease to be a problem if it is treated as a resource rather than refuse from consumption, which requires disposal.
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Cancer congress
The battle against the disease intensifies
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Fear no starch
By the turn of the century, you can dig your teeth into anything starchy and yet maintain good dental health courtesy, genetically engineered plants
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Power crunch in paradise
Port Blair, port city of the Andamans, is in a developmental cul de sac