Butterfly wings to the aid of glaucoma patients
INSPIRED by tiny structures on transparent butterfly wings, scientists have developed a light-manipulating surface for more effective and longer-lasting eye implants for glaucoma patients. Researchers
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Tackling hunger
The NAC suggests steps to ensure food security, but its recommendation for
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Poisoned beach
Effluents from an industrial estate destroy the coastal ecology and deprive local people of their livelihood at Tadgam in Gujarat. FAR from urban influences and pollutants, the beach at Tadgam in Valsad district in south Gujarat should be bustling with life.
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Public duty
Civil society must prevent any attempt to clean up Bhopal without establishing Dow's remediation liability and analysing the contamination fully. THE endgame has begun.
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‘EIA is done competently'
Interview with C.B. Jain, Project Director, JNPP. C.B. Jain is the Project Director of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project. In this interview to Frontline, he presents the project authorities' point
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Critical mass
Villagers marching to the site of the public hearing at Madban on May 16. The sleepy surroundings of Madban and nearby villages in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra were roused to action sometime in
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Battle for survival
Nearly 8,000 of the Dongria Kondh Adivasis, who revere the Niyamgiri mountain as their king and god, fear displacement and disruption of their centuries-old culture once the company gets the clearance
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Miles to go
The UPA government's policies on infrastructure have not translated into any substantial benefits for the poor. Adequate infrastructure is among the most critical physical requirements for attaining
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A lake's last sigh?
The Sasthamkotta lake, the source of drinking water for seven lakh people in Kerala's Kollam district, is shrinking fast. JULIA lives in a working-class housing colony at Rajagiri, on the edge of a laterite mound, one among the three dozen such hillocks overlooking the Sasthamkotta lake, about 30 kilometres from Kollam in south Kerala.
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Deadly spill
ON April 20, a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. The rig was called Deepwater Horizon, well named for British Petroleum's (B.P.) remarkable effort to draw oil from a deep-sea rig that has to go through 22,000 to 25,000 feet (6,600-7,500 metres) of water before it strikes the seabed. Eleven oil workers are presumed dead although their bodies have not been found.
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Securing a sanctuary
THIN morning mist shrouded the Thunakadavu valley in the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, which is nestled between the Anamalai hills of Tamil Nadu and the Nelliyampathy hills of Kerala.