A hardy bacterium that can adapt to water scarce conditions offers clues to how crops can survive dry periods

On a single day in 1731, more than 350 persons 69 of them women sacrificed their lives to protect their trees from being felled in Jalnadi village, near Jodhpur.

A WHO study notes that While India has achieved impressive levels in food production, equitable distribution is still a distant dream. Chronic hunger still persists, but severe,nutrition related diseases have almost disappeared.

Diseases caused by severe malnutrition have been virtually eliminated.

Crops grown in micronutrientdeficient soils can lead to various types of illnesses.

The devastating famine that is killing Somalis by the thousands each week will end some day, but they may find out then that they have to deal with a new horror: the country has become a dumping ground for vast quantities of toxic waste.