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‘Pesticides, antibiotic use and ultra-processing threaten food safety in India’

Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment says that in addition to microbiological and chemical contamination, factors like salt, sugar and …

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Gaseous menace

Scientists and researchers try to figure out ways to curb rising carbon dioxide levels

Inextricably linked

A United Nations report highlights the connection between environment and health

Extracting a cost

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Anthony McMichael on health risks from climate change

ANTHONY MCMICHAEL heads the International Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, and is a member …

Bee farms to shops

Big firms control honey supply

Diabetes plan staggers

National programme to combat the disease is inadequate  

International bodies like WHO, FAO join hands at CITES COP19 to curb zoonotic diseases

Zoonoses defined as infectious diseases spread between animals and humans by food, water, fomites or vectors

A plant breeder comes into his own

Awards are finally coming to K Vinod Prabhu, 54, a plant breeder, for his work on building resistance in wheat, mustard and rice through the …

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Viral flight

Bird flu reported among wild migratory birds in China

Give native knowledge its due place

ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished

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Drugged by chicken

Antibiotics in meat make disease-causing bacteria resistant to cures

Future shock

As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-…

Beware, dangerous pollutants are spooking your air

Pollution levels in major north Indian cities are either 'very poor' or 'severe'

Protests at Bihar asbestos unit

Deaths, diseases, skin ailments are common, complain residents

Moneymakers

Grim reminder

A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness

Beijing's Green Olympics

A black countdown in West Bengal, India

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