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 pipe dream?
The Veeranam project, near Vzdalur in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu which was conceived to deliver water to the parched metropolis of Chennai, nears completion, but questions about its viability
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Water and votes
The reasons given by the Gujarat government for the urgent need to raise the Sardar Sarovar dam's height form a facade; the fact is that the dam is crucial to the BJP's election
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Bt cotton, again
The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee approves a fourth Bt cotton variety for commercial cultivation even as crops raised earlier using varieties have been disappointing. Developed by Rassi
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Brewing trouble
Residents of villages around a distillery near Mysore in Karnataka allege that effluents discharge by the unit have contaminated groundwater and rendered farming practically impossible in the area.
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Exposed to a dangerous threat
The conclusions of the First Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagene Protocol on Biosafety fail to address fully a central concern of developing countries: the social and economic impact of genetic
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Driven to death
The once-prosperous farming villages of Wayanad district in Kerala are witnessing a spate of suicides by farmers, who are unable to repay loans because of a severe drought and the resultant crop
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A silent emergency
On March 22, the Geneva-based Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) released a pioneering global report Listening simultanelusly in London, Johannesburg, New Delhi and New York on
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A historic ruling
A US Court of Appeals sustains the plea of the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster and orders Union Carbide Corporation to undertake the removal of contamination in and around the abandoned
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Drought and despair
Tamil Nadu reels under a thrid successive year of drought, and the rural economy is fast drying up as a sixth straight crop failure stares farmers in the
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Kerala's plight
A failed monsoon distress to Kerala; its second longest river, the Bharathapuzha, is virtually dry, and Palakkad district faces the worst drought in its