Elusive cause
THE IRRITABLE HEART: THE MEDICAL MYSTERY OF THE GULF WAR Jeff Wheelwright . W W Norton & Company . New York . 2001 . 427 pages Bill is 46 and a military
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The curse of poor sanitation
A bacterial disease kills 42 people in India
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New gimmick
A cigarette company launches smoking prevention programme<br>
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Footprints of the wild
Publishers worldwide need to be goaded to specialise in environmental publications, but the fair was piled high with coffee table glossies on wildlife and environment, some targeting children.
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Earthquake rocks Indonesia
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the Indonesian island of Java in the early hours of May 27, 2006. More than 135,000 houses were destroyed and an estimated 647,000 people were
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At the feet of poverty
THE Aravallis, the oldest and hoariest mountain range in India, are today some of the most barren sentinels in the country. At the foothills of this range, which extends all the way from
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The 20th century Nostradamus
WITH the advent of the modern era, people had long began conjecturing about the future, maintains Barry Minkin. Which way will the wind of change blow? This is the focus of the book in
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Surprising statistic
Everybody uses them. In every home, the ubiquitous pack or jar of detergent lurks, ostensibly leading to improved hygiene and shining cleanliness. India's use of detergent has doubled and trebled
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Rain plays truant in Italy too
from Tuscany to the tip of Sicily, Italy is in the grip of its worst drought in decades. It has wiped out crops, killed livestock and changed the lives of thousands of people. Experts say that
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Touching up water treatment
THE SWEDISH city of Malmo has carefully landscaped an area of about 10,000 ha, which functions as a natural stormwater treatment plant. In Malmo, on the southern Swedish coast, several projects
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Fishy fleet
Two hundred compressed natural gas buses get mired in a controversy over catalytic converters
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Replaceable or not
Rules are in place for vehicles to run on liquefied petroleum gas but key technology issues remain unresolved
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Foundries shun cleaner technology
A modified furnace reduces coke consumption and pollution, resulting in considerable savings.
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Robbing The Poor
Diesel is subsided to help the poor farmer run his pumpset. But this cheap fuel is used to drive expensive cars of the rich
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Solving it together
In 1987, citizens of Gothenburg accepted the challenge of cleaning up their city and succeeded admirably.
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PCB issues notices to polluting units in Raipur
the Chhattisgarh government reiterated in February that industries not in compliance with emission norms could not be established in three industrial areas in Raipur, the state's capital, until
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INDIA
Commercially viable low-on-emission hydrogen fuel cell buses may soon become a regular feature on the roads of metro cities beginning with Delhi. Funded by the Global Environmental Facility project
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Follow Up
After dragging its feet over the issue of conversion of buses to Compressed Natural Gas (cng), the Delhi government recently announced that the vehicles supplied by Ashok Leyland and Telco are
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INDIA
• A review by C Gopalan, president of the Nutrition Foundation of-India, New Delhi, attributes the high incidence of coronary heart diseases in Delhi to increasing air pollution. To promote
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Mining accounts for more labour deaths
Safety in mines has improved today compared to days of bonded mine labour. But mines which employ 1 per cent of the global labour force remain hazardous Over half the world's mining