Energy

 Alternative technology

Hydro Environmental Resources Inc, USA has developed a unique energy system. When water and a patent-pending formula are added to a converter, energy is produced. In the converter, reaction takes

Publication Date: 
14/07/2001
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Development, Energy, Energy Technology, Electricity
India

 Saving a lake

The Andhra Pradesh government will not be able to encroach upon the Hussain Sagar lake following a judgement of the state high court. The proposed encroachment was for implementing a Rs 1,400-crore

Publication Date: 
14/07/2001
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Environment, Hussain Sagar, Development, Legislation, NGO, India, Andhra Pradesh
Health

 Right medicine?

Doubts are raised over the efficacy of two herbal medicines for asthma

Publication Date: 
29/06/2001
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Asthma, Development, Health, Ayurveda, Drugs, Infectious Diseases, Research, India, Delhi
Natural Disasters

 Dealing with disasters

For appropriate disaster management, it is essential to give due importance to political, social, economic as well as environmental aspects. Ignoring any one of them will only compound the crisis

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
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Environment, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, India, Gujarat, Development
Poverty

 Developing issues

the growing livelihood insecurity that the masses face due to depletion and degradation of environmental resources, population explosion, unemployment and poverty have marked the end of the 20th

Publication Date: 
30/01/2000
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Development, Population, Women, Poverty, NGO, Trade Unions
Industry

 ZAMBIA

More and more people belonging to the

Publication Date: 
14/10/1999
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Development, Health, Workers, AIDS, Industry, Zambia
Poverty

 A question of priorities

The world has sufficient resources to accelerate progress to accelerate progress in human development for all and to eradicate poverty. According to the United Nations Development Programme's Human

Publication Date: 
Wednesday, April 14, 1999
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Development, Poverty, Environment Education, UNDP
Environment

 Crab trouble

Horseshoe crabs, survivors from the Paleozoic Era, now face the threat of extinction

Publication Date: 
14/03/1999
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Environment, Development, Endangered Species, Environmental Science
Environment

 Peer Review

Environmentalists express their views on the chief minister of their states

Publication Date: 
14/02/1999
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Environment, Development, Pollution Control
India

 Going overboard with development?

A new project seeks to examine the environmental degradation due to development in Kochi

Publication Date: 
29/04/1998
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Environment, Development, India, Kerala

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