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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How polluting are thermal power plants?
Ash dumped by thermal power plants is contaminating Singrauli's drinking water
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The unleaded cosh
Lead-free petrol, which the ministry of environment :nd forests (MEF) is All: seeking to introduce in W, the 4 major metrop titan cities by April 1, 1995, is hazardous to health, says H B Mathur,
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On deadly grounds
Polluting industries choke the ecosystem of a Nepal village
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Woes on three wheels
Over the last three months, nearly 10,000 auto-rickshaws have been taken off the roads of Ahmedabad, ostensibly to check pollution within the city. As a result, many auto-rickshaw drivers were
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Mercury haunts Hindustan Lever
The mercury issue is back to haunt Hindustan Lever Limited (hll). The Hazardous Waste Management Committee (hwmc) of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has ordered the company to submit all
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Going to seed
A thermal power plant (TPP) is threatening to snuff out the 100-year-old livelihood of farmers in Maharashtra's Dahanu taluka. It is alleged that pollution from the unit has led to a steady decline
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No fee escape
In a rare judgement, an industry official has been sentenced to two years imprisonment in a pollution case by the court of chief judicial magistrate, Thane, Maharashtra. The court held B V Ajhar,
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Polluting plants
So you thought plants are non-polluting? Three studies released recently by German scientists have turned this belief upside down. According to them, stressed plants release toluene, a smog-forming
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Passing the ball around
Court blames the authorities. Every one passes the buck
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Network: reaching out
Civil society members become a part of GRP