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Pesticides And Toxins
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Storm alert
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How do you like your food, sir?
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2013
My local vegetable vendor sells ordinary lemons packed in plastic bags. It got me thinking if this is a sign of improving standards of food safety and hygiene. After all if we go to any supermarket in the rich and food-processed world, we will find food neatly packed so that there is no contamination through human hands.
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Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Making waves
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Free the air of mercury
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2013
In 2003, we at the Centre for Science and Environment undertook the task of creating an inventory of mercury use in India. We decided on this endeavour after conducting the environmental rating of the chlor-alkali industry: an industry that produces basic chemicals like caustic soda and chlorine.
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Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2013
GEOLOGY
Fault finding
“Stable” zones of the earth’s crust might not be so stable. These zones are more likely to cause massive earthquakes. It was thought that “stable” zones, where fault segments of the crust slip slowly, act as barriers to earthquakes and fast-slipping faults trigger them.
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Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Finned polluter
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