Old malaria control method regains ground
Destroying mosquito larvae with the help of fish is not only environment frinedly, but a profitable venture too
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Feed it to the earthworm
That is what Lata Srikhande, a Pune housewife, did to solve her domestic waste disposal problems. Now her neighbourhood is following suit
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Villagers one up on government in greening project
The balding hills of Jadhera panchayat in Himachal Pradesh are regaining their vegetation, thanks to an unusual village chief
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Protect the tuskers damn the carvers
In its enthusiasm to protect tuskers from being killed, the government has extended the worldwide ban on ivory trade to India as well. Left in the lurch, with no means of livelihood, are the ivory craftspeople
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Lessons of a drought
Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of the day and a global water crisis seems not too far away. But the water-guzzling US state of California is show
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Making hell holes
What slaughter mining and power plants have done to the people and the environment
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Coming of the know all
The socio ecological implications of the knowledge revolution are many and multifaceted. But the world needs a system where a 'post bi polar' order is yet to be defined
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"In our village, we are the government"
At first glance, he seems just like any other Madia Gond tribal. Perhaps a little older than his age. But DEVAJI TOFA, who is only 38, is notiust the headman of the nondescript Mendha Lekha village in Maharashtra's Gadhchiroli
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Fish ticuffs
A grassroots level fight is on in the Philippines against big trawlers fishing in other people's waters, and related problems
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Oasis underneath
Local people in the arid Churu district of Rajasthan know how to store sweet rainwater for the scorching, parched summers
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The paper society
Japan's trashbins give it back half the paper it uses and reuses
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Chill blast
Did American scientists help Russia acquire its atomic bomb? A new book triggers off a major post Cold War controversy
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"Over 15 per cent of Russia is ecologically unsafe"
Professor Alexei Yablokov is head of the inter departmental commission for ecological security under Russia's National Security Council. He recently resigned as advisor on environmental and health problems to President Boris Yeltsin. Yablokov, 62, has a
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Parched Punjab
India s most agriculturally prosperous state, Punjab, is staring at an impending groundwater crisis. Over extraction of groundwater and faulty cropping practices could affect India s foodgrain production
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Eyeing the coastlines
Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor fisherfolk for their settlements, is the administration surreptitiously letting in Indian companies and multinationa
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Slow born on the atomic fast track
In February this year, the United States government publicly admitted to carrying out nuclear radiation tests on completely innocent human guinea pigs
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Highways of death
High risk levels and pathetically inadequate disaster management plans tar Indian roads as danger zones
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Fenced out
The Delhi administration's move to make the Asola and Bhatti sanctuaries exclusively protected areas ring alarm bells in the local villages
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'Water planners ignore social issues'
Nepal is slated to be a major hydropower supplier in South Asia with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Australian government for a US$ 590-million 360-megawatt project on the Karnali river. But Nepal"s big projects, like t
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Dew distilled from stars and rainbows
For centuries, humans have collected honey and put it to various uses, from a sweetener making alcohol