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Nov 1-15, 2004
Cover Story
Acids of arsenic. Organo-mercury compounds. Batteries. Bristles of boars or hogs. More potent stuff: asbestos; slag dross; ash and residues of incineration of municipal and other waste. Even more harmful: waste oil, black oil. Clinical waste. Plastic waste (among many others, waste and scrap of polypropylene, acrylicpolymers, phenoplast and acetate film scrap). Yarn waste. Ferrous waste and scrap. Scrap and waste of cast iron, stainless steel, tinned iron or steel, tin, zinc, lead waste. Waste and scrap of cobalt, titanium, unwrought cadmium, magnesium. Banned pesticides like DDT and lindane
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Print pesticide levels on soft drinks, court orders colas
A popular ayurvedic herb is blacklisted by the US media on unjustifiable grounds
The catalytic convertor completes 30 years of cleaning vehicle exhaust
CITES proceeds cautiously, in the wake of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Shillong meet declares shifting cultivation environment-friendly
Demand to amend Forest Conservation Act looms large over talks between Naxalites and AP
Fish deaths in Gujarat's lakes point at acute negligence
Amended law no respite for Andhra farmers
States miss deadline to implement emission norms
Countries struggle to counter the chemicals challenge
Agent Orange-induced misery in New Zealand
Toxic chemicals choke Cuddalore industrial estate
Fear of pandemic
South India's vanilla growers
Organic farming boosts biodiversity of all species
Arsenic and lead leach out from popular US fertiliser
Herbal cure for snakebite
California bans the harmful use of mercury in vaccines
WiMAX technology can provide rural India with internet
A malaria vaccine shows encouraging results in trials
More than a lakh affected as floods hit Goalpara district in Assam
Factsheet
Why Punjab prospers while Bihar gets poorer
Feature
Species extinction is real, and not a scare. But the solutions conservationsists provide are simplistic and even more scary
A Rajasthan village entrusts anti-malaria campaign to children; they do remarkable work
Keeps the doctor away
A school for the hearing impaired sets an example in using alternate energy
Has anti-inflammatory medicine Vioxx been withdrawn to market new drug?
Debate
The oak, an integral part of Kumaon life, might soon be extinct from the region
Many have become even more marginalised after 25 years of Left Front rule in Bengal
Opinion
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