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Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler has a propensity to waylay its victims, striking with stealth. An analysis into what triggers the killer which garrottes nearly 500 victims every day and leaves several others suffering a life of anticipated terror

Editor's page

The Bill of contentions

The Indian Biodiversity Bill has been cleared by the Parliamentary Standing Committee and is now before the house for approval. Not before time. Given that it has been over nine years since we signed the Convention on Biological Diversity (cbd) and that the bill has been drafted and redrafted it would seem unnecessary to discuss it further. But it is important to ask why at the end do we have such an unimaginative and fossilised document, which does not reflect the emerging learning and experience in the world.

News

Jumbo problem

Spate of elephant killings forces rethink of conservation policy

Shaken but not stirred

US sticks to its guns on not verifying bioweapons treaty

A sunny mandate

Solar water heating system in Haryana's private buildings

Sowing confusion

Authorities speak in different voices over the fate of genetically modified crops

'Leaking joints fuel bus fires'

Probes carried out to get to the root of the CNG blaze problem

Interview

Deadly Dimensions

Diesel may be the most commercially viable fuel at present, but one that raises serious doubts on the future of urban health. Sundeep Salvi of Air P...

Science & Technology

Continental melting

Keeping track of the dirt

Resounding deaths

Fishy depictions

Exaggerated reporting about fish catches has painted a false picture of the oceans' health

Harvesting joy or sorrow?

Global warming would decrease crop production in developing countries but increase it in the industrialised world

Watered down

Aerosols could be wrecking havoc with the Earth's water cycle

Spicy solution

Cloves can stop hazardous asbestos fibres from escaping into the air

Messy state(s)

Fudged AIDS of USA

Heart-warming discovery

Taming toxicity

Selenium, an easily available element, may be the answer to arsenic-related health problems

Cures trapped in troubles

More virulent form of diseases could be the future babies of ineffective medicines

Fowl play

Usage of antibiotics in farm animals could be making human microbes drug-resistant

Brainy inheritance

The wild orangutans

Two can make a difference!

Kindergar(d)en find

Researchers identify the closest living relatives of the first land plants -- a group of green algae

Honey I shrunk the salmons!

Salmons from two rivers are reducing in size due to lack of food

Unsuccessful copycats

Mutations in cloned monkey embryos prove that a lot has to done before primates can be cloned successfully

Special Report

Net gain

Villagers around Tawa reservoir in Madhya Pradesh are finally allowed to retain fishing rights

Life & Nature

Traditional wisdom

Researchers in Gujarat use rural expertise to predict weather when modern methods fail to make accurate forecast

The Fortnight

Source of the scourge

Unsterilised syringes used in Africa in the 1950s may be at the root of AIDS

KENYA

SOUTH AFRICA

TANZANIA

SINGAPORE

JAPAN

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

MEXICO

BOLIVIA

ARSENIC POLLUTION

FLOOD CONTROL GUIDELINE

MATERNAL MORTALITY

UNITED NATIONS

Cleanup call

Burning problem

Fuelling pollution

In safe custody

Clean diet

Wave of concern

In dire straits

Pollution costs dear

GENSET EMISSION

HAZARDOUS OIL IMPORT

ANTI-VENOM SERUM

Follow Up

Close encounters

Organic route

Leader

Right to fish

The Madhya Pradesh government has made a landmark decision to allow
villagers around the Tawa reservoir to retain their fishing rights. Not only will this enable locals to carry on fishing activity at the
reservoir, it will also allow them to continue marketing their catch as well. Impressed by the Tawa model, the Digvijay Singh government is also set to devolve powers to fishing cooperatives all over the state.

A land in turmoil

Following the conclusion of the un-sponsored talks on Afghanistan in
Bonn, unep executive director Klaus Toepfer
rightly said environmental issues should form part of the package being considered for the country's rehabilitation.

Crosscurrent

Fortifying ecofront

Can existing constitutional safeguards adequately address the environmental concerns?

Safe or smug?

The awareness of the looming threat of bioweapons has evoked a serious response from all over the world, except India

Review

Managing water

the land of the mighty Chomolungma (Mt Everest) and the mother of many 8,000-metre-high snow-capped peaks, Nepal has no less than 6,000 odd fast-flowing rivers and a total annual outflow of 150 billion cubic metre (bcm). This "so-called colossal water potential of Nepal" is just a "socio-economic myth", according to Dipak Gyawali.

Grassroots

Call of the wild

A unique festival epitomises efforts for conservation of Assam rainforests which have been lying in a state of neglect for decades

Letters

Water venture

Your editorial 'The water business' (Down To Earth, Vol 10, No 12, November 15, 2001) is highly commendable. Water is a priceless gift of nature and its conservation is the order of the day. Yet in urban areas one can see water, which comes at a negligible price, being wasted by people.

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