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'Climate change to impact suitability of tropical agricultural lands by 2100'

Suitability will shift to higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere

Spy versus spy and high tech gizmos

From secure manhole covers to Internet tracking systems, NSA has an arsenal of patents

E coli outbreak in EU

India alerts ports that receive fruits, vegetables from Europe

Crisis staved off

Taste for nuclear waste

A bacterium that mops up uranium

The dangers of living by the main road

Structure of key TB protein unraveled

Scientists unravel the structure of key TB protein

Novartis painkiller ordered out

High road to Dubai COP28: Scientists join group in saying 1.5°C warming limit too high

20-nation group point to global impacts on world’s ice sheets, glaciers and cryosphere 

Green Climate Fund turns to developing nations for funds

UN-backed body plans to raise $10-15 billion by end of 2014

United emission norms

Eight countries decide that it is time to have uniform standards for vehicular emissions

Furore over seeds

US plan to settle WTO disputes

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Toxicitea tangle

Safeguards have been erected to weed out the supplies of tea laden with high pesticide residue levels. But when governments use these benchmarks …

Ecomilestone

Recycling of discarded vehicles soon to be mandatory in Europe

Exhaustive predicament

Nitrogen dioxide is proving a dificult vehicular emission to control

No firm commitment on climate change at G8 meet

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COP-9 makes slow progress

Old is gold

Mature forests trap more carbon dioxide than previously estimated

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