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Within the enemy

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Humankind faces the most prolonged and worst exposure to pollution within the four walls of its homes indoors where biomass combustion spells a quiet doom for millions. Surprisingly, most research has chosen to ignore this problem in favour of the mor

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Caught in a net

A recent coup on the Internet, which broke the monopoly held by the Netherland's state publishers over information, throws light on what is being referred to as Internet activism

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The least known evils

Have you been undergoing bouts of lethargy at work or at home lately? Do you feel your memory has started playing tricks with you? Are you getting constant headaches, nausea, eye-throat-nose

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Road, yes. Trod, no

Controversy reared its head once again on the East Coast Road (ECR), a 700-km-long highway being constructed from Madras to Kanyakumari. Activists of the ECR action committee (AC) were assaulted

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In the red over radon

Evidence from temperate regions have often suggested a link between lung cancer deaths and radon exposure. A tasteless, odourless gas about eight times heavier than air, radon seeps out of the

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The global angle

Rising concerns today about global warming owing to the build-up of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane etc) in the atmosphere, has drawn the world's attention to global biomass

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The climate for a change

Are the nations of the world serious in their much touted efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions? VINAYAK RAO examines the motives, moods and manifestoes in the run up to the forthcoming climate change conference in Geneva

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A mandate for the future

The Berlin mandate incorporates certain pointers to what should be the elements in a future protocol to be adopted at the third Conference of Parties (COP-3) in 1997. The most important of these

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The second coming

Claims of successful regimes go flying out of the window as malaria and TB, aided by fresh drug resistant traits, play havoc across boundaries

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A multi pronged attack

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The people of southern Zimbabwe have found a variety of ways and means to upgrade the quality of the environment in their part of the world

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