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 Not all green is healthy

RABINDRANATH Tagore's much loved tree, the scholar's tree or Alstonia scholaris, is today a bone of contention within the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology (11T) in Kanpur. Last

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Anjani Khanna
Down to Earth
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Deforestation, Health, India, Kanpur (D)
India

 Fires galore

Over 2,500 hectares (ha) of forests in Kerala have been destroyed by fires this summer. Fires are reported to have destroyed extensive acreage in several of the 14 sanctuaries and national parks

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Down to Earth
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Forests, Forest Fires, Timber Smuggling, Nagarahole NP, India, Karnataka, Kerala, Nagarhole NP
India

 Tribal women edged out of forests

IS one born a woman or does one become one? Were women all through history burdened by inequitous norms and rules even during the period when surplus accumulation did not form the basis of

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Harsh Sethi
Down to Earth
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Forests, Tribals, Women, India, Bihar
India

 Cool sound

FEARS of ozone layer depletion have inspired research into refrigeration technologies that do not depend on ozone-destroying chemicals and which may even be more efficient than the

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ozone Layer, Science And Technology, Technology, Research, United States Of America (US)
India

 Mindless shopping

SHOPPING can now be as mindless as' you'd like it to be - the smart shopper can opt for the smart trolley. It directsr,@-Idvises, locates, tempts, and c&n even draw up a menu. Videocart

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Science And Technology, Information, Video, TV, Advertising
Environment

The fight for survival: people's action for environment

The main purpose of this book is to bring to the reader an idea of the nature of the struggles being waged to individuals and voluntary groups across the world, and especially in India, to protect the environment.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1986
Anil Agarwal, Darryl Demonte, Ujwala Samarth
Centre for Science and Environment
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Environment, Forests, Mining, Dams, Government Of India (GOI), Asia, Europe, South America, India, Sustainable Development, Pollution
Environment

The state of India's environment: the second citizen's report

This book describes major environmental changes in India. It's a balance sheet of India's resources and focuses attention on the effect of ecological degradation on the poor. The interesting thing in the second report is the information that is provides on the linkages that operate on what can be called the interface areas: at the interfaces between different ecological spaces like croplands, grazing lands and forests; between the people and their environment; between economies of towns and villages, and so on.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1984
Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Environment, Grazing Lands, Land Resources, Soil Erosion, Mining, Tanks, Groundwater, Dams, Inland Fisheries, Health, Habitat, Energy, India, Forests
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

The basic causes of the large-scale deficiency in the South-West Monsoon rainfall over India in 1965 and 1966

The years 1965 and 1966 will be remembered in Indian history as two successive years in which the failure of the south-west monsoon had a disastrous effect on Indian economy. This article is an attempt to find out the basic causes of this large-scale deficiency in the monsoon rainfall.

Publication Date: 
05/02/1969
C. Ramaswamy
Current Science
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Tags:
Monsoons, India, Rainfall Pattern
Pesticides And Toxins

The Insecticides Act, 1968

This Act regulates the import, manufacture, sale, use, etc. of insecticides in order to prevent risks to human beings and animals.

Publication Date: 
01/09/1968
Ministry of Agriculture
Tags:
Insecticides Act 1968, Insecticide, India
Energy

The Atomic Energy Act, 1962

An Act to provide for the development, control and use of atomic energy for the welfare of the people of India and for other peaceful purposes and for matters connected therewith.

Publication Date: 
15/09/1962
Department of Atomic Energy
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Atomic Energy Act 1962, Nuclear Energy, India

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