function opengr3(){ var popurl="html/20030715_gr3.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=500,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } Land of the Fat In the last week of June, the big fight

New lands of the fat?

Let us now consider the larger terrain in which the results of the surveys must be understood. It is clear that from the mid-1970s onwards, nutrition

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people’s diets are out of joint. The nutritional value of the food people

The last gap in China's controversial Three Gorges Dam has been plugged, making the world's largest hydroelectric power project a reality. By 2009, the area will turn into a 560-kilometre lake, after

China is tightening norms to

SARS motivates researchers to redefine space invasion

Nagesh Kumar , director general of Research and Information Systems on Non Aligned and Developing Countries, a development research organisation, talks to Clifford Polycarp about investment issues in

New global models provide the opportunity to generate quantitative information about the world water situation. Here the WaterGAP 2 model is used to compute globally comprehensive estimates about water availability, water withdrawals, and other indicators on the river-basin scale.

The Great Wall of China, built to hinder marauding tribes, hampers the flow of plant genes too. Members of the same species growing on either side are genetically quite different, indicates a new

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