First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Cricket emission levels and smokescreens
A new study shows it is not just English cricketers who are manipulatin4data for their benefit - the ministry of environment, too, is playing a similar game.
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Industrial blackmail!
Having done precious little to clean up its polluting act in the past 30 years, a Kerala factory is indirectly blackmailing the state government with a closure notice if it does not get raw material at dirt cheap rates
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Delhi hits the dirty track
THE World Health Organization has identified New Delhi as one of the 10 most polluted cities in the world, a dubious distinction that Delhi now shares with other megacities like Mexico City, Seoul
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Clean up costs
Ecological devastation in China is rampant: acrid, blackened air in industrial cities; rain that turns inky and corrosive with acidity; noxious mounds of untreated garbage and hazardous sludge
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Childhood cancers
There has been an alarming rise in cases of childhood cancers in the last two decades. According to reports in Environmental Health Perspectives and The Ecologist, this has been attributed to
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The dying "lifeline"
The sorry state of the Bagmati is an eloquent pointer to the state of the Kathmandu Valley
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No longer packed...
Once found in abundance, the oil sardine is another victim to exploitation
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The nitty gritties
Adopting a comprehensive rating approach
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CETPs: in fashion
Pollution from small-scale industries has grown by leaps and bounds. So, building common effluent treatment plants (cetps) has become a fashion. The Union ministry of environment and forests (mef)
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Leading the way to brain damage
India has yet to tackle the problem of leaded petrol, which causes brain damage in children