Row over ruling
A WTO ruling raps the US for its unfair trade practices and the failure to stick to environmental rules on clean fuel standard
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Dangers of letting cars dictate city design
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Not so bitter
Fears of neem patenting by Western MNCs are blown out of proportion
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Artisans the untold story
Despair and devastation stare India"s artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern civilisation and government apathy combine in an onslaught on their teetering citadels. Down To Earth presents an exhaustive analysis
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Time to change
Restrictions on use of natural resources in protected areas are driving the local communities dependent on forest produce for their survival to a state of deprivation. Conservation strategies can be sustainable only when it involves indigenous people in t
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Desert under siege
The Thar of Pakistan is an arid region troubled by long spells of drought, rapidly falling groundwater levels, abysmally low literacy levels and rudimentary medical centres. But the crisis facing the Thar today stems from beyond all this. It can be traced
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Fisherfolk thwart bid to reclaim wetlands
A unique fishing cooperative that salvaged the wetlands leased to them by the Calcutta Port Trust has successfully fought off attempts to repossess the land for building projects
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Disciplining the enfants terrible of industry
Small is not always beautiful: Small-scale industries in India account for only 35 per cent of the country"s industrial production, but their share of pollution is a whopping 65 per cent.
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The see saw approach
The Central Public Works Department has banned the use of wood in its construction projects, ignoring the fact that the substitutes are more ecologically harmful and mainly depend on non renewable sources of raw materials
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Leading the way to brain damage
India has yet to tackle the problem of leaded petrol, which causes brain damage in children
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What a bloody mess
When the Ebola virus broke on April 10 this year, the scientific world went into a tizzy? It's uncontrollable, it's the big daddy of horror movies, and it's incurable. Authors look at the little killer from a safe distance
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The great divide
For the urban Indian, upwardly mobile on auto-power, livestock means products like milk and meat. For 75 per cent of India living in villages, it means transport, power, fertiliser and food
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Who needs high tech water treatment plants?
TRADITIONAL communities developed ingenious ways of making use of wastewater. And, experts involved in the modern science of ecological engineering can learn a great deal from them. There is a
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Dying due to diesel
The registration of non commercial diesel vehicles may soon be banned in Delhi
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We can overcome
It was the most polluted city in the US, and now, it is the recipient of the UN Best Practices Award. Chattanoogans have spearheaded this turnaround; they have even chalked out the blueprint for the first ever zero emissions industrial park
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Polluters take a fall
Heavy polluters have to pay heavy fines. Truck manufacturers realise this the hard way
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Tehri: is it curtains?
The beginning of submergence of Tehri also marked the drowning of anti dam sentiments. Any strong protest was conspicuous by its absence. Does this signal the end of the three decade old movement?
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Reeds to the rescue
An ecofriendly way of treating polluted wastewater holds promise for rural India
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Axe subsidy, not the bus
<p style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Supreme Court order upholds diesel price hike for bus corporations, but
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Village democracy, Mendha style
A nondescript Maria Gond village in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, can offer a lesson to urbanites on how to run a functioning democracy.