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Dharamitra, in its search for more sustainable ways of living, has come up with a new kind of cooker

What if the nurturer herself turns into a polluter? Smoking and / or drinking mothers poison the foetus. Alcohol consumers expose the foetus to alcohol syndrome, which engenders congenital

The Voluntary Health Association of India (vhai) has launched a campaign to ban and withdraw the manufacture, sale and distribution of endosulfan, a deadly chemical pesticide. vhai's call for

The threat to the foetus seems all pervasive, with even something as seemingly innocuous as a computer display screen being a threat. High levels of radiation (including X-rays, magnetic impulses

The South Korean non-governmental organisation Citizen's Coalition for Economic Justice (ccej), recently launched the Green Family campaign. The campaign specifically aims at the reduction of

The Western Ghats in the south of India have forests which are, for some plant species, their exclusive home on this earth. No wonder then, that Western bioprospectors have their eyes set on these forests due to their exquisite quality. But the apparent i

Plans to set up lignite and China clay mines in the biologically diverse and rich Madayipara plateau of Kerala s Kannur district has its residents agitated over the certain destruction it will bring to the region

Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of the current phase of warming. The debate is whether the affluent North or the developing South has been more r