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May 15-31, 1998
Cover Story
For years, energy experts and foresters have believed that the poor will eat away the forests of the developing world like locusts in order to meet their ever-growing firewood demand.
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News
Breathe in Delhi and you stand a good chance of getting cancer
Several fish species in Kerala are threatened by overfishing and the release of effluents in the coastal waters
Guatemala is exploring the possibility of legal action against multinational cigarette firms, the first such move by a country
Drug reactions claim 100,000 lives every year in the US
The Union government dilly-dallies on an expert committee recommendation to ban recycled plastic bags
Environmentalists in Europe are campaigning for a tax on aviation fuels to reduce aircraft emissions
Interview
Chandrakant Pandav , additional professor, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi,...
Science & Technology
Ethyl lactate, an ecologically benign chemical, is all set to replace dangerous solvents
South Africa tries to bring cycads, plants that coexisted with the dinosaurs, back to life
As a result of air pollution in Delhi, strains of toxic metals like lead and cadmium are increasingly finding their way into the womb
Bacteria and hypertension: a new study says the two are actually linked
A new filter now promises clean drinking water in arsenic-rich areas
Scientists say diesel fumes are carcinogenic, giving the war against vehicular pollution a shot in the arm
While the aircraft industry flies high with composites, one question nags engineers: are they really safe?
Clean and unlimited power from just a handful of hydrogen atoms. Physicists are busy working to make this dream real
"Bigger, better, faster, more" is a safe motto in data transfer techniques, as scientists try to process more information faster
Death conquers all. Stars die too, in more ways than one
California is sitting on gases at very high pressure that are enough to trigger earthquakes in near future
...might soon be the root of all your computer troubles. Get ready as a new breed of virus comes of age
Smarter cards are here. And storing data on them is easy as child's play
Once the electropalatograph hits the market, that's what people with speech problems will do easily: talk
The Fortnight
Evidence of water vapour in the solar system and the possibility of existence of another solar system elsewhere in the Universe has raised hopes of discovering extraterrestrial life
Leader
Crosscurrent
How's India doing in providing basic social services?
Review
Grassroots
Swadhyay, which literally means study of the self, is a movement that has introduced realistic social change in India's rural communities
How come Andhra is left out of the mining loot story ? It is good for the nation if we learn to keep environmental and...
The UN environment report states that Ganga would disappear by 2030.There would be no need to train engineers or even Ganga...
A report published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology suggests that babies of...