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 vanishing people
Grinding poverty, poor health care facilities, and a variety of diseases, mainly malaria, claim a disturbingly large number of lives in the tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh. On an average, 312 tribal
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Outsiders in their own forests
The process of the marginalisation of the indigenous Jarawa community continues unabated in the Andaman
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Saving the tiger
The report ubmitted by the Tiger Task Force restarts the debate on strategies to save the animal and at the same time protect the interests of people living in tiger reserves. A Tiger Task Force
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Farmers in distress
The brutal repression of a farmers' agitation in Sriganganagar district point to the indifference of successive governments in Rajasthan to the acute water shortage in the
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A mining controversy
Opposition parties allege that a bauxite mining agreement between the Orissa Mining Corporation and a Sterlite Group company violates forest laws and affects the interests of the
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Nature's magic
Drought unearths a buried treasure along the Colorado. A severe Western drought - some say the worst in 500 years - is shrinking Lake Powell at the rate of up to a foot (0.3 metre) every four days.
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Chasing the mirage
According to the World Water Development Report published by the United Nations, the most serious challenge of this century may not be war, hunger, disease or even the collapse of civic order, but
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A defective document
The draft National Environment Policy marks an advance from the past approaches but has basic flaws that would limit its effectiveness.
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Dying for work in Baran
The Sahariyas, a tribal community inhabiting Baran district of Rajasthan, are fighting to stave off hunger and death; 15 of them, mostly malnourished children, have died since July without medical care. The one-time hunter-gatherers demand work even as politicians debate whether the deaths were due to hunger or disease.
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Dying for work in Baran
The Sahariyas, a tribal community inhabiting Baran district of Rajasthan, are fighting to stave off hunger and death; 15 of them, mostly malnourished children, have died since July without medical