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May 15-31, 1999
Cover Story
The thirst for diesel in India is growing. Diesel mania grips the Indian automobile industry and the customers with more and more companies going for diesel variants. What most people are ignorant of or prefer to ignore is the fact that diesel fumes are highly carcinogenic and pose a serious threat to public health. Many Indian cities, especially Delhi, are already reeling under high concentrations of diesel-related pollutants like small particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen and ozone. What was supposed to be cheap fuel for the poor - farmers for whose pumpsets and tractors the government had subsidised the price of diesel - is now driving the cars of the rich. Morally and environmentally reprehensible, yet there is nobody in the government to stop this killer trend
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Environmentalists score a major victory as the Supreme Court tightens emission standards in Delhi,
Fruits and vegetables in Pakistan are laced with pesticides
Fires ravage forests in many parts of northern India
Participants from five countries, including India, discuss ways to improve water harvesting systems
Interview
P Pushpangadan , director, National Botanical and Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow,speaks to ...
Science & Technology
Breaking past records, the city Atlanta was enveloped by a coat of pollen from the trees of northern Georgia
The link between Atlantic temperatures and an atmospheric effect that influence winters could lead to prediction of stormy winters in Europe
Industrial activity threatens the wetlands of east Calcutta
Although researchers have improved on their skills to predict extreme climate changes like the El Nio, they still have a long way to go
Bamboo could be a potential source of green gasoline
The growth of wind energy is fastest among all renewable sector energy sources
Some strains of the AIDS-causing virus are developing resistance to whatever drugs are available
For those suffering with heart diseases, scientists just found drugs that are more effective than aspirin
Some people may be predisposed to suffer vertigo due to a weak bone in the temple. And the cure may be quite simple
Though India woke up late to the millennium bug, most large
organisations seem on course to fix the problem
A few small holes in the manifold may be all that takes to improve engine efficiency
A new 'tableting' technology will make tablets smaller and easier to swallow
A new technique helps recover metals from water. It could be toxic metals, or even gold
Early exposure to mosquitoes may help develop resistance to malaria where chances of infection are high
The latest on calcium's role in regulating expression or repression of genes
There is one in our genes. And scientists are surprised at the distance signals can travel along DNA strands
It is a possibility thanks to a seemingly insignificant scientific observation
Special Report
Worried about the state of the world's largest underground source of freshwater, Australia gears up to save the Great Artesian Basin from mismanagement
The decline of the frog population is an early warning that something is seriously wrong with living conditions on Earth
Life & Nature
The modern onslaught: talus being pulled down. They are earthen walls surrounding plots of land, and have trees planted on them
The Fortnight
Why do humans have such large brains? Switching over to eating meat may have been responsible
Leader
Crosscurrent
If the current trend towards genetic uniformity in rice varities continues, our food security will be severely imperilled
Review
Grassroots
Panchakarma , an ayurvedic treatment, holds the key to Bhopal gas victims' recovery
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