What determines a person's behaviour through the vicissitudes of life: genes, environment or both? There are many who believe that genetic …
READ MORE 15 Oct 1994Once again, shoals of dead fish were beached on the banks of the Tungabhadra, in Karnataka's Dharwad district, earlier this year. Most people …
READ MORE 15 Oct 1994A recent, innocuous check-and-tally exercise by the Delhi administration unearthed a giant racket diverting to the transport sector heavily-…
READ MORE 15 Oct 1994Even though funds for the Superconducting Super Collider have dried up, particle physicists are determined to prove their theory of, well, everything
READ MORE 30 Sep 1994Forest protection initiatives taken by villagers, though laudable by themselves, have proved to be a bane for women
READ MORE 30 Sep 1994A week of unprecedented protests by the employees of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research indicates the deep discontent among India'…
READ MORE 30 Sep 1994In recent years, scientists have closed in on cancer, pinning down precisely how its hellish manifestations are caused and spread. Their findings …
READ MORE 15 Sep 1994Increased incomes, innovative financing schemes, short-sighted policies and wasteful attitudes have led to an enormous amount of energy being …
READ MORE 15 Sep 1994Geographical Information Systems is revolutionising the present and portend a happier future. Or so we hope in the maps of our minds.
READ MORE 31 Aug 1994Indian manufacturers of CFCs are no longer fatalistic about winding up, but they are banding together to overcome ploys that will gag attempts to …
READ MORE 31 Aug 1994A study explains why peaceful pachyderms go on rampages that leave crops and humans devastated
READ MORE 15 Aug 1994The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes
READ MORE 15 Aug 1994How and why tobacco multinationals are scrambling into Third World markets
READ MORE 15 Aug 1994A high-tech power station foreign companies are building in Maharashtra is being touted as the "perfect solution" to its anticipated electricity …
READ MORE 31 Jul 1994Conservation strategy stands on a fork in the road: one leads to animal protection in their natural habitats, or sanctuaries; the other to …
READ MORE 31 Jul 1994After a 10-year crusade, Sri Lankan environmentalists finally got what they wanted: mandatory environmental impact assessments for development …
READ MORE 31 Jul 1994Duck rearing in India has come a long way. From a small-time activity, it has evolved to one in which entire flocks are transported across …
READ MORE 15 Jul 1994As the reckless plundering of the world's limited resources continues, nature is striking back where it hurts humans most: disease. People in …
READ MORE 15 Jul 1994As India goes into economic overdrive, the urban explosion and its attendant traffic nightmares cry out for a radical alternative. DERK J VAN DER …
READ MORE 15 Jun 1994The Central Public Works Department has banned the use of wood in its construction projects, ignoring the fact that the substitutes are more …
READ MORE 15 Jun 1994Cotton farmers in northwest India were taken by surprise when, despite a pesticide blitzkrieg, the American bollworm devastated half their crops. …
READ MORE 15 Jun 1994As the authorities dither and bicker over how to combat pollution in the Capital, industrial units proliferate and entrench themselves virtually …
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