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Monsanto gets the nod to carry out trials of its GMOs
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Dirty move
The move to exempt certain categories of industry from a public hearing is anything but laudable
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Driven by the market
There is more to profit from alternative fuel technologies than meeting emission norms with conventional fuels. But is the industry listening?
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Ban the ban!
Wildlife authorities must think carefully before imposing any blanket ban
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Playing dirty
There is an urgent need for a post APM fuel policy if we want to address environmental concerns
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A political gimmick
When concern for the environment is merely cosmetic, can we hope for a change?
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Beastly
Clear policies are needed on treatment of animals to avoid polarisation of views
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Plunder the mines
<font class="UCASE">forest</font>, water and biodiversity management don't have powerful lobbies. Mining does. The trouble is mineral exploitation can easily destroy the natural resource base of the poor
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Month of the dead leopard
One month in the life of an endangered species in India
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Quaking, 1108 aftershocks later
The Indian plate is underthrusting the Eurasian plate by 4 to 5 centimetres a year. But our scientists move even slower. Are they waiting for the Big One to come, again without warning?
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An environmental skirt to hide behind
In a dark time reason takes a backseat, and propaganda can get rash. To convince nose in the air liberals that Saddam is really a bad boy, he is being projected as an environmental criminal. Suddenly, the civilised constituency has woken up to the envir
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Health tax
Tobacco industry is the true test of health policy
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The latest fizz
Who s afraid of the right to information?
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Come clean
A shoddy cleanup exercise in Bhopal has left residents only angrier
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What class do you need to travel business class?
to fly business class one must look and behave like a businessman. Santraj Maurya did not have that demeanour. He really couldn't have. Picking waste from Delhi's roads doesn't really bestow one
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An opportunity lost?
THE focal theme this year at the 94th Indian Science Congress was
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Sri Lanka devises new way to conserve wildlife
what Sri Lanka can do, most unfortunately, India cannot. The island nation is plagued by widespread conflict between elephants and humans caused, as is usual in these parts, by the expansion of human
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Regulating living environment for public safety
it is unusual for the powerful real estate lobbies to be brought to their knees in India. But such a thing happened in Gujarat in 2002. The high court was hearing a petition on saving the lakes of
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Subcontinental drift
our worst suspicions have been confirmed. Recent research shows that since its separation from Gondwanaland, the Indian subcontinent has been moving at a more rapid pace than its siblings
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An artistic solution
santiago sierra's artwork, currently showing at Lisson Gallery in London, can safely be called revolutionary. Exhibits consisting of rectangular solid blocks neatly organized on the gallery floor