Newar houses designed to save farmland
The Newars of Kathmandu realised centuries ago that if they had to leave space for future generations, they would have to live as compactly as possible
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Rape of the rock
The heavenly idyll of a carefree people, happy to welcome tourists, gay in their carnival, peaceloving and gastronomic, is being devastated due to the avarice of miners
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For all that is green
Standing today at the threshhold of a doom 04t can happen actually in a split second in the form of a nuclear holocaust or a germ warfare, the efforts at salvaging the environment should ideally be people oriented
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Diluting black rain
Positively charged atoms of elements like calcium and magnesium that are present in particulate matter can neutralise acid rain
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Dead fish tell tales...
...as the case of Betwa proves. Tales which have the power to move a whole town in Madhya Pradesh and send the notoriously slothful official machinery into a whirligig of activity. It is all about a people’s struggle to save the highly polluted Betwa rive
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Peer Review
Environmentalists express their views on the chief minister of their states
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The Korean conundrum
Demand management is better for both the environment and the economy. The sooner South Korea realises this, the easier it would be for the nation to get out of the IMF shackles unhurt
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Puberty too soon
Chemicals resembling oestrogen, may be causing sexual irregularities in adolescent girls
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The lone crusader
From social worker, to government contractor, to politician, and then to the highest political station of the state. It has been an interesting journey.
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Delhi ridge: a lifeline in danger
Encroachments by the poor and the rich alike are proving to be the ridge's bane. The malady is monumental, and the court's healing touch has provided incomplete relief at best
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Is it on the right track?
Controversy has dogged the Konkan railway project since its inception. Today, many influential Goans are up in arms against the present alignment of the track, which, they allege, would wreck the state"s environment. Railway officials, of course, disagree
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Greens scream blue murder
Environmentalists and Democrats in America gear up to tackle the Republican "onslaught" on landmark protection laws
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Reading the future in the past
Geological records of how climate responded to changes in the atmosphere in the past enables scientists to model future climate behaviour in response to current atmospheric changes
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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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DISTRESS SIGNALS
New diseases are emerging with changes in the environment, some old diseases are also staging a comeback
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TOURIST TOWN
JAISALMER Jaisalmer is one of the world's prettiest 4 desert forts. And it is one of the few in which people still live. But modern Jaisalmer is also bursting at the seams and using water in a
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Bottled water costs us the earth
The botted water industry is global in nature. But it is designed to sell the same product to two completely different markets one water rich and the other water scarce. The question is whether this
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Damned bodyblow
The proposed Rathong Chu dam in Sikkim is a potential threat to the state"s environment
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Taking the lead
India's chief ministers are beginning to take note of environmental problems. But just about. The Centre for Science and Environment conducted a survey of <i>Down To Earth</i> readers and India's environmentalists. A report on the nature of the work carri
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Hybrid buses: green steps in dark shadows
<p style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The pilot project on electric, hybrid buses for public transport