In- Depth

Hunt for survival!
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Hunt for survival!

Pakistan's national animal's trophy hunted -- for conservation and income to the poor
May 15, 2005
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Theirs to mine?
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Theirs to mine?
TRIPPED
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TRIPPED
Hope in a heap
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Hope in a heap
Fatally fixated
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Fatally fixated
June 30, 2004
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The precarious geopolitics of phosphorous
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The precarious geopolitics of phosphorous

Both nitrogen and phosphorous are essential to life. Lynchpins both to global food production, circulating through synthesis or export ...
June 30, 2004
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Hard rain down the drain
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Hard rain down the drain

What's eating up the state's water
May 31, 2004
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Saving future
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Saving future

Solution to crisis: start planning now
May 31, 2004
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Not just incentives
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Not just incentives

Good regulatory mechanisms are also necessary to reduce industrial emissions
May 31, 2004
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Water woes in wet Kerala
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Water woes in wet Kerala

More than 2,000 mm of rain in 2003 but crops destroyed and farmers committing suicide; crores spent on 31 ...
May 31, 2004
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RED ALERT in nuclear India
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RED ALERT in nuclear India

India's pampered nuclear power programme is losing steam. Uranium stocks are almost over; people won't let the government dig ...
April 30, 2004
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Scraping the barrel
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Scraping the barrel

No stock, nuclear energy programme in crisis
April 30, 2004
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No plutonium to go on
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No plutonium to go on

But government says full steam ahead
April 30, 2004
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Into the void
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Into the void

Two steps faltering, plan takes third step
April 30, 2004
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The development laboratory
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The development laboratory

Where civil society, says SUNITA NARAIN, could learn a decentralisation lesson or two
March 31, 2004
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Let people do it
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Let people do it

Involve communities in the distribution process
January 15, 2004
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Serving the symptom
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Serving the symptom

The government still does not know what still afflicts people in Bhopal
December 15, 2003
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Not ready for Roundup Ready
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Not ready for Roundup Ready

Notwithstanding the resounding failure of its Bt cotton, Monsanto has begun to introduce another genetically modified crop into India, ...
September 30, 2003
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Africa proposes
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Africa proposes

Recognise community knowledge. Do not patent life
September 15, 2003
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Women panchayat presidents are no rubber-stamp leaders
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Women panchayat presidents are no rubber-stamp leaders

Of the 12,619 Gram Panchayats in Tamil Nadu, one-third or nearly 4,200 panchayats are headed by women -- following ...
August 15, 2003
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Damodar - Ten years after
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Damodar - Ten years after

How has the river that flows through one of the most industrialised regions in India fared since it was ...
March 15, 2003
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Consigned to flames
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Consigned to flames

Central and state authorities fiddle while underground coalfields burn in Jharia in the state of Jharkhand
November 30, 2002
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Democracy or dependance
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Democracy or dependance

Will the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) be able to deliver on its promises?
October 15, 2002
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Beating the drought
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Beating the drought

How some villages stayed afloat even as neighbouring lands parched
September 30, 2002
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Women strike back
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Women strike back

India's first alliance of women affected by mining takes shape
August 15, 2002
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