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Eating easy

A new hybrid variety of seedless mango has been recently developed by scientists at the Regional Fruit Research Station of the Konkan Vidyapeeth at Sindhudurg, Maharashtra. This high-yielding

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Inviting disaster?

IT COULD lead to a nuclear disaster in the area. High-level radioactive waste from the spent fuel reprocessing plant of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) at Trombay has been piling up

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To kill a mocking pest

With pesticides no longer a viable means of controlling pests in most cases, the search for alternatives like bio pesticides has proved that there is enough arsenal in plants to bring to heel even the most resistant variety

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Remote possibilities

THE Ramagundam and Singareni coil belt will be the focus of an environmental study to be carried out with the help of IRS-1C, India's third remote sensing satellite, to draw up an eco-development

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Genesis

Over thirty years of continuous research later, scientists report the outcome of a hybrid wheat, which is billed to substitute the available species of grain

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Flowery woes

The crisis of pollination assumes greater significance in the face of declining numbers of species which act as useful pollinators

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To ban or not to ban

A recent interim court order on toxic trade throws open a Pandora's box: environment, industry, employment, international commitments... the lot

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The battle of Beawar

Rajasthan villagers embark on an unprecedented indefinite agitation for their right to information on the state's developmental projects

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Raining destruction

Scientists have been issuing warnings about the havoc acid rain could play with the environment. Now archaeologists have also joined the campaign. They have done so because the eruption of Mount

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Dry truths

THE sixth gathering of the signatories to the Ramsar Convention on the world's wetlands, at Brisbane, Australia recently, has revealed a disturbing picture. California, us, reportedly lost 91

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