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The Mexican government is enforcing waste disposal norms despite the lack of infrastructure, ensuring a windfall to multinational waste disposal companies

A few cases of epidemiological studies helping contain a rampant disease

Ever since van panchayat forests were created, officials have eyed them greedily

The extinction of species decreases plant productivity and impairs the functions of an ecosystem like mopping up carbon dioxide

NOISE influences human behaviour both physiologically and psychologically. At 0 decibels, the bottomline of hearing, the weakest sound can be heard in an extremely quiet environment. A soft whisper

• FARNWAY, a farmers' cooperative in northeastern England, is all set to pave the way for bio-diesel-fuelled vehicles. It plans to run its cars and lorries on bio-diesel produced from rapeseed.

Emerging trends in the van panchayat rules

A pharmaceutical multinational in India has set up an incinerator that suits it just fine

December 1985: The Acoustical Society of India prepares a report on the need to legislate industrial and urban community noise pollution. The Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986, includes noise as

The largest collection of germplasm in the world will be handed over to the Food and Agriculture Organisation to ensure equal accessibility