Arctic plunder
The Bush administration has passed a bill that permits oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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Playing Lego with molecules
Scientists are trying to make designer solids substances whose molecules they assemble according to a predetermined plan
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Switch on the window, please
Windows that change from clear to dark and back at the flick of a switch are set to make air conditioning systems redundant in buildings, thereby saving considerable power.
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Pudgy babies have the edge
Recent studies indicate that the greater the weight of babies at birth, the less prone they are to heart disease during their riotous adult years
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Eating oil
Fertilisers accelerate growth not only in plants but also in certain microbes that feast on oil
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Gender bias
Studies from Africa show that women are more prone to the <font class='UCASE'>aids </font> virus than men. This will require reorientating drug research
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Seeds of monopoly
A US firm's patent application on soyabean seeds harves fear rivals
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Natural jeans, clean gasoline and organic cures
Manufacturers across the world are busy developing environment friendly products and minimising pollution in production process. A select list
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In search of gravitational waves
Two projects are under way to detect an elusive phenomenon that are thought to be produced by violent events in outer space
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China goes car crazy
The land of proletarian bicycles might soon be taken over by cars, which will bring in their wake the problems of pollution and dwindling energy supplies
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Seeds that discourage insects
Genetically engineered pea seeds can successfully ward off voracious pests
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Where water is wealth
More than a quarter of California's agricultural land is irrigated. When the state had reeled under a prolonged drought in 1987-92, innovative concepts like water trading and water banking
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USA, Japan trade research roles
PRESIDENT Bill Clinton wants American research to adopt the Japanese stress on industrial applications. But his call may have come too late as Japanese scientists are switching their thrust to basic
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Patent piques
An Indo US biodiversity research project contract has stirred up a hornet's nest
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Deadly games
A new report accuses Big Tobacco of sabotaging WHO's efforts to fight smoking
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Will this one work?
If the first class action suit against tobacco companies in Florida is successful, the US tobacco industry is in trouble
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Western expansionism caused more carbon emission
THIRTY years of deforestation in the temperate regions has caused more pollution than 140 years' use of forests in the tropics. When' temperate forests were cut down in the 19th century by the
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Sunk again
Another report lambastes the theory of land carbon sinks
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Gasping for breath
Entire tree species face the threat of extinction from the increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide
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Widespread disagreement may mar WSSD
Emil Salim, chair of the global preparatory committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (wssd) and former Indonesian environment minister has urged India's Prime Minister, Atal Bihari