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Liuminying, a small village south-west of Beijing, is an environmentalist's dreamland. It has emerged as a world-famous model of a perfect ecological village. The United Nations Environmental

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All about Alamatti

The Alamatti dispute between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh joins the ranks of the nation s major wrangles over river waters

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Pollinators in peril

Ninety per cent of the world's most important food crops are threa

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Rocked!

On July 4, 1997, planet Mars will see robots crawling about, seeking more evidence of life there, egged on by the extraordinary find of life in a Martian meteorite below which had landed on Earth 13,000 years ago. But for the moment, that find itsel

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Look before you leap

Denmark has for the first time introduced a law relating to the transfer of polluting technologies to other countries

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Slipping out of the mess

Researchers from the Southampton Oceanography Centre in the US have recently developed a measuring device which could enhance the efficiency of clean up operations following an oil spill.

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Perched atop an abyss

The predatory Nile perch, introduced with all good intentions into the Lake Victoria, is turning out to be the magnificent lake s nemesis

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Promising cure

for the millions suffering from tuberculosis, especially in the Third World countries, the development of a new vaccine offers a glimmer of hope. Scientists at the Medical Research Council, uk, have

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The lingering wars

The Alamatti controversy is only one among the many continuing river disputes, which more than anything else, underscore the failure of tribunals as dispute resolving mechanisms. Here is a list of

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Manatees in the red

The mystery behind the deaths of endangered American manatees has been solved. The high concentration of the chemical brevetoxin in red tides lashing the Florida coast is the cause

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