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Jan 15-31, 1993
Cover Story
The Damodar is the most polluted river in the country today, thanks to the several industries that have sprouted on its mineral-rich banks. Experts say the only way to save the Damodar valley is for these highly polluting industries to make massive investments in clean-up technologies or to switch to a new generation of cleaner technologies, but the industrialists exploiting the area's resources are not willing to make the change.
News
The environment ministry is in trouble in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, where it has violated timber extraction limits.
Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, still die every day all over the world, because of malnutrition.
Women quarry-workers in Tamil Nadu's Pudukkottai district have formed cooperatives and are managing the same granite quarries where they once worked as bonded labour.
Work on the Madras-Cuddalore stretch of the East Coast Road has been suspended following objections that construction had begun without the required environmental clearance
Violence erupts in a quiet fishing village in south Kerala over the rights of traditional fisherfolk to resources of the sea.
With the pollution-conscious West pushing large-scale production of toxic chemicals to India, the result is more exports and more environmental damage.
Interview
Erstwhile Green Party spokesperson Sara Parkin on the future of green movements in the industrialised world.
Science & Technology
To reduce pollution levels, it is becoming necessary to upgrade conventionally designed, two-stroke two- and three-wheeler engines with cleaner four-stroke ones.
Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in treating this old-age disease, with the discovery that abnormal production of proteins, called amyloids, causes nerve cell degeneration.
Wax coating from their nest helps wasps recognise siblings.
Agrin, a protein released by nerve cells, helps in triggering off the formation of a machinery through which neurons communicate.
Simulated climate models show increasing carbon dioxide and chlorine emissions can drastically alter weather conditions and lead to the formation of an ozone hole over the Arctic.
Analysis
The Damodar is the most polluted river in the country today, thanks to the several industries that have sprouted on its mineral-rich banks. Experts say the only way to save the Damodar valley is for these highly polluting industries to make massive investments in clean-up technologies or to switch to a new generation of cleaner technologies, but the industrialists exploiting the area's resources are not willing to make the change.
Special Report
Small farmers protesting the monopoly of multinationals over the world's food resources take to the streets in Bangalore.
The Fortnight
The sharing of waters between India and Nepal has always been a contentious issue. If the latest agreement is any different, it is only because the issue has become political.
Fourteen years after Germany scored a worldwide first by adopting eco-labelling, there still remain doubts about selection and evaluation procedures used in the system.
Britain and USA have followed hard on the heels of the German eco-angel, but, unfortunately, most such schemes continue to remain "green froth".
Financial transfer estimates that generously portray Northern largesse are deceptive for they camouflage huge payments triggered by the Gulf war.
The new US Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner, the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, has a tough job ahead, balancing ecology and industry.
The Pangue dam project has got the World Bank's approval for a large loan amidst charges of environmental violations.
Crosscurrent
It is becoming possible to utilise the capacities that exist outside the state -- such as non-governmental organisations -- to influence state policies and, in the coming years, India is going to witness dissatisfaction being increasingly expressed through people's movements.
1992 proved the Indian women's movement needs to reassess its priorities and strategies.
Recent research reveals that subjecting night shift workers to eight hours of bright light could bring about a 12-hour shift in their daily rhythms.
Living with the Gaddis was an environmental lesson worth learning.
Review
Grassroots
A voluntary group helps street children by organising them into associations and building a home for them.
A programme implemented in central Kerala shows how an illness can be controlled if the community is involved.
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