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THE World Bank (WB) has devised a new strategy to improve the lot of the "poorest of the poor". Inspired by the success of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which lends small amounts mostly

Even India has a living tradition of recycling its paper and banking on non wood fibre sources

A workshop in Nepal on community forest use brings to the fore environmental gains of the concept

Detecting the body's fat deposits

NINTH-ISLAND rookery, the picturesque abode of 12,000 penguins in southern Australia may well turn out to be the oily grave of these precious birds. Over 500 tonnes (t) of fuel oil leaked

A controversy rages over whether the Surat plague bacillus was a secret hardsell by a Kazakh chemical firm

A new technique to deliver drugs to eyes without making them water

FRANCE's nuclear testing shenanigans the Mururoa atoll have caused an international furore (see Down to Earth, 31, 1995). Among the most hostile ics of the French moves on the atol the

The Environment Appraisal Commiittee for River Valley and Hydro-electricity Projects under the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF), has recommended that construction work on 10 dams be

Using fungi in dressings for faster healing of wounds