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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A killer heat wave
A heat wave in Orissa that has claimed at least 50 lives draws attention to the alarming change in the State's climate, which experts attribute to reckless industrialisation and unchecked
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Saving forests and people
The UPA government should ensure the passage of the Bill on protecting forests and forest dwellers, brushing aside efforts to dilute or subvert it. The proposed new law to recognise and protect the
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Poison in the air
Poisonous gases released into the air by some chemical units in the SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, continue to endanger the lives and livelihoods of people in a number of villages
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A toxic hot spot in Kerala
A titanium dioxide factory in Thiruvananthapuram dumps hazardous waste into the sea in spite of court orders, and the Kerala government is helping it secure immunity from environmental
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Left high and dry
The villagers moved out of the Kuno forest to make way for Gir lions complain that they have got little of the rehabilitation package they were
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A standoff in the forest
Tribal people resist the Madhya Pradesh government's drive to evict them from areas they have lived in for decades. On April 16, the small town of Nepanagar, not far from the historic fortress of
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Forests and tribal rights
A new Bill proposes to make amends for the injustice done to India's tribal people by restoring their rights to traditional means of
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A kingdom too small
The Asiatic lions of Gir are the world's last surviving group of the sub-species in the wild. Lions in Gir look for new territories as the sanctuary is not large enough for their population. The Gir
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A task force and its options
The Tiger Task Force appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the wake of the horrendous Sariska crisis has a historic opportunity. It can either go the conventional way, asking for a vastly
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Nature in peril
The warning is dire: The ecosystem is severely threatened and the aggressor is man. This dire warning comes from the United Nations' Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report, the first