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The Tanzanian government recently began evicting pastoralists from the Ihefu basin in the country's Mbeya city claiming they were causing environmental degradation. Ihefu, a catchment basin of

After years of protesting against Dow Chemical Company, Bhopal gas victims have found an unlikely ally

The largest ever settlement for pollution caused by asbestos was made on May 10, 2006, when the world's largest producer of insulation products agreed to a payout. Owen Corning announced a us

penalised: A US-based water company, United Utilities Plc, has been prosecuted for the fourth time this year. A UK court asked it to pay about US $18,600 as penalty for discharging 56,000 cubic

Secrecy, economics marks the new way forward

A shift to public transport should avert the energy crisis

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun. George Orwell in his 1937 novel The Road to Wigan Pier

Seventy years down the line, Orwell could not have been more correct.

The business of food is not restricted to processed food. Today, Indian homes increasingly buy processed or packaged cereals and processed edible oils to cook food.

In April this year researchers Tim Lang, Geoff Rayner and Elizabeth Kaelin, from the Centre for Food Policy, City University, London, came out with a report: The food industry, diet, physical ac

Indian villages pick up the Coke habit