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- Himalayan states also face risk of glacial lake outburst floods
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- What caused the landslides in Uttaranchal?
- Science meets fiction 6
- Capturing the monsoons 2
- Dhari Devi idol goes missing 2
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- Don’t just cash in on tigers 18
- Pedestrian questions 14
- Weather dice is loaded 13
- “Come elections, our forests are looted” 10
- Odisha's waterman 6
- Kudankulam meltdown 5
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- Gujarat set to develop India’s first tidal energy plant 4
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Nov 15-30, 2003
Cover Story
Ladakh is the one region in India where sustainable development is the only way ahead. Dry toilets, water efficient crops, cooperative farming, a democratic society and living in harmony with nature are not ideals here; they are a prerequisite
Editor's page
News
The Pesticides Action Network reports lacunae in World Bank projects
Contrasting sentiments marked the opening of the 19th World Mining Congress in New Delhi on November 1. President A P J Abdul Kalam warmly welcomed potential foreign investors as he inaugurated the five-day mega meet. But the event got a cold reception from environmentalists and activists, who described it as a forum to plot the plunder of India's natural resources
Should Karnataka expand the midday meal scheme without fine-tuning it?
At a time when most countries are phasing out mercury, India has donned the dubious mantle of the world's toxic capital. Its import of elemental mercury doubled from 254 tonnes in 1996 to 531 tonnes in 2002, making it the biggest consumer of the hazardous element across the globe
In april this year, California became the first us state to introduce a bill to biomonitor breast milk. Activists and researchers hope that once this legislation is passed, it will help people realise that mothers pass on toxic material to their offspring. Breast milk monitoring would also help create awareness about the harmful effect of pesticides
Rice -- the staple food of 65 per cent of India's population -- is in for a revolution. An Indian firm has developed a technique to develop genetically modified (GM) hybrids of the crop. If the method is given a green signal by the officials, then rice may become the first food crop to be commercially cultivated. The accomplishment is important, as it may facilitate the development of the much-needed drought-resistant varieties that can endure harsh conditions prevalent in many places
Land use in China is in for irretrievable change. At the Third Plenum of the 16th Party Congress, held October 11-14, 2003, the world's biggest communist country promised to protect private property and allow farmers to amass large land holdings. According to state-run television, these decisions were part of a package to "perfect several issues in the socialist market economic system." These decisions will now be sent to the Standing Committee of China's legislature, which will turn them into law
Pact struck on water sharing in the US
Mar government agencies' drug procurement process
To halt dam-linked dislocation
Or political manoeuvre?
Cancer in violence-torn J&K
Rice millers to tap CDM
Hard-hitting health impacts
Internet can help decongest traffic
The need of the day to save biodiversity
It has become difficult to find frogs and toads in Assam
Homoeopathy to combat the arsenic menace
Interview
Currently chairperson of the Bundestag committee on environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety, Ernst Ulrich
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Factsheet
No longer the sole province of the most industrialised
Feature
On the one hand: potholed roads, poor sewage systems, numerous small scale industries, nightmarish working conditions. On the other: clueless civic authorities. India's lock and key town faces a grave paradox
The ker plant signifies drought to people in the desert. It also provides food to survive on
Grassroots Options is about development or the lack of it in the northeast
In New York, bus depots are located in areas where coloured people live
Debate
Nine years since the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was created, the environmental impacts of trade liberalisation in the region remain uncertain. It is clear, however, that neither the dire environmental fears predicted nor the direct improvements in environmental performance, stemming from higher income, have generally materialised
Opinion
A lesson, in election times?
Is quite different from letting politics crassly dictate research
Nidhi Jamwal and Kushal P S Yadav, prosecuted as 'trespassers'
