Science And Technology

A 2020 vision for global science

We live in a world that is more interconnected - and more vulnerable - than ever before. The fallout from the banking crisis was worldwide. Concerns about infectious diseases have risen and fallen in the public's consciousness, and while no catastrophic pandemic has yet hit us, it is clear that preventive measures require global monitoring and cooperation.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2010
New Scientist
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Water Resources, Climate Change, Population, Biodiversity, Science And Technology, Science, Scientists, Education, Food Security
Science And Technology

Science and self-respect: Periyar on modern science

This essay seeks to understand the place that modern science occupied in Periyar

Publication Date: 
03/04/2010
Senthil Babu D
Economic and Political Weekly
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Science And Technology, Science, Personalities, Politics, India, Tamil Nadu
Climate Change

Science, media and public perception: implications for climate and health policies

International climate policy has been set back by the failure to achieve a strong and legally binding agreement at the United Nations

Publication Date: 
01/04/2010
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Roberto Bertollini
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Health Effects, Waterborne diseases, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Sanitation, Health Policy, Science
Science And Technology

'Science is not a company or a country, but a process'

MICHAEL SPECTER
SCIENCE AUTHOR
Michael

Publication Date: 
29/03/2010
India Today (New Delhi)
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Climate Change, Food Safety, Science, Genetic Engineering, India Today (New Delhi), Bt Brinjal
Health

European food watchdog slashes dubious health claims

Europe's food safety watchdog on 25 February issued a scientific mass-verdict on more than 400 so-called health claims, the promises that food producers make on their labels and in advertisements, rejecting purported health benefits of a raft of substances.

Publication Date: 
05/03/2010
Martin Enserink
Science
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Nutrition, Food Process Industry, Health, Food Safety, Europe, United States Of America (US), Science, Martin Enserink
Health

British MPs want end to homeopathic treatment

The science and technology com- mittee said the therapy is not effi- cacious or, it does not work beyond the placebo effect
British MPs have restarted the controversial debate on the efficacy of homeopathy after a House of Commons committee advised the government to stop funding homeopathy treatments on the National Health Service as there is no scientific proof that it works.

Publication Date: 
23/02/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Health, Homeopathy, Science, United Kingdom (UK)
Agriculture

Agriculturists herald new farming system based on fertilizer trees

CHENNAI: Top scientists from international agricultural institutes are heralding a new system of farming based on using fertilizer trees to increase crop yield.

The new system, which was inspired by small time farmers in Africa who grew the Acacia, could provide a solution to dwindling paddy production in India and will help mitigate climate change, they say.

Publication Date: 
20/02/2010
Hindu (Chennai)
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Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Trees, Science, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)
Climate Change

Science of climate risks

R.K. Pachauri

Publication Date: 
16/02/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Climate Change, Climate Science, Science
Science And Technology

Only science can fight hunger

THE 97TH Indian Science Congress is in session at Thiruvananthapuram (January 3 to 7, 2010), the capital of the state of Kerala.

Publication Date: 
06/01/2010
M. S. Swaminathan
Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Malnutrition, Starvation, Drinking Water, Science, Biotechnology, India
Climate Change

Strengthening sciencepolicy dialogue in developing countries: a priority for climate change adaptation

The Copenhagen climate change meeting needs to make decisions on the structures and institutional arrangements to fund and deliver climate change adaptation (CCA) at the international level, and mechanisms to integrate CCA principles and approaches into developing country policy processes.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
& et al, Nicola Jones, Harry Jones, David Walker
Overseas Development Institute
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Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Science, Knowledge, India, Developing Countries

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