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Clean manufacturing, cleaner environment

Waste abatement measures can go a long way in controlling pollution and increasing efficiency, prove several surveys. Access to right technology is needed.

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Biopesticide delay plagues malaria control plan

As scientists debate which of two new pesticides should be used in the fight against malaria, the toll in the disease slowly rises.

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Water use is excessive in rice cultivation

Farmers in India are using 25 times the amount of water that agricultural scientists say is needed to produce paddy. Improper irrigation methods and misconceptions are the stated reasons for the high wastage of a scarce resource.

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What the Bill offers

Salient features of the Transplantation of Human Organs Bill 1992:

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Covering up with a plastic smile

The plastics industry in USA maintains its green image by deviously exporting used containers to developing countries for disposal, finds Greenpeace, an international environment group.

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To get in touch . . .

K P NYATI Director (Environment Cell) Confederation of Indian Industry 23 Lodi Road Institutional Area Now Delhi 110 003 P B DUGGAL Secretary Federation of Associations of Small

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Troubled botanists

Increasing instances of theft of plant species from Asian countries led delegates at a recent symposium of botanists in New Delhi to stress the need to recognise the importance of taxonomy - the

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Moss genes may enable crops to survive drought

STAR MOSS, a primitive organism without roots or a vascular system that is common in the forests of North America, contains genes that could be used to engineer drought resistance in crops. Molecular

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Determining death

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While doctors are vehemently opposed to what they term "ventilating" corpses, lawyers are in two minds regarding whether a brain stem dead person should be kept alive on life support machines.

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Genetic theft by Kew botanists

An ongoing debate in the UK questions the ethics behind the acquisition by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew of acquiring tropical plants through dubious means and using them to manufacture life saving drugs, without any of the financial benefits reaching

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