An easy and public way to monitor air pollution that s also cheap in India

better chick-pea variety: Scientists from New Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Research Institute have developed a drought-resistant variety of chick-pea. The variety, Pusa-1053, has a yield of about

The pharmaceutical industry in South Africa (sa) is threatening to shut up shop unless the country's government rethinks its new drug policy. The policy has been in place since January 2004. It

Sale of African ivory stocks

Global inequalities are also communicative in nature

South Africa's privately-owned game reserve sector is at the receiving end of a drought. Former cattle ranchers and other operators, who made hay while the US $137-million industry was at its prime,

Winning vote banks through land redistribution is South African President Thabo Mbeki's new election strategy. Similar to Robert Mugabe's land acquisition drive in Zimbabwe, Mbeki is winding his

What about privatising water? Should India move to do it? What tips the scales in its favour, and what doesn t? In 2003, two editorials in Down To Earth tried to tackle such questions see:

This study and the workshops that lead up to the International Conference for Renewable Energy 2004 in Bonn are primarily focused on learning experiences between Southern nations.

Illegal trade of ozone depleting substances is thriving

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