A UNEP report seeks, in an unsubstantial manner, to link the Asian brown cloud, a relatively localised pollution cloud, to serious local and global changes in weather patterns and even to long-term
While 85 per cent of all man-made GHG emissions are made by the developed countries, the developing world needs to increase its emission levels to achieve economic growth and reduce poverty. This
The "World Food Summit: 5 years later" which concluded in Rome on June 13 was supposed to address the most important human rights violation of our time - the denial of the right to food to millions.
The controversial decision by the Government of India's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), on March 26, 2002, to grant approval for the commercial release of genetically modified Bt
While the number of effective drugs available to control malaria is small, the rapid emergence of drug-resistant strains of the malarial parasites is outpacing the developing of new antimalarials.
The menace of female foeticide has been particularly alarming in Punjab and Haryana despite the prosperity and high per capita income levels that prevail in those states. A consultation on the
The World Health Assembly decides to retain existing stocks of the smallpox virus for continued research into new vaccines, without setting a future date for their destruction. The decision to retain
The first Human Development Report of India, released recently, brings to light inter-state disparities and variations and the gap in development between urban and rural
The Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation is constructing 14 Common Effluent Treatment Plants in the 28 industrial areas to ensure that the discharge from industrial units into the Yamuna is
