Biodiversity

 Free trade has no colour bar

OVERTURNING age-old fears, free trade is now being seen as the market miracle that will bail out the earth from the environmental mess it finds itself in; free trade is expected to bring about the

Publication Date: 
30/04/1994
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Tropical Forests, Biodiversity, GATT
India

 Teak gets a saviour

An Australian tree offers wood that can replace teak for furniture

Publication Date: 
27/02/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tropical Forests, Forest Conservation, Wood, Science And Technology, Australia
Environment

 Well researched essays on sustainability

THE INTERNATIONAL Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) in London has been conducting research on environment- and development-related policy issues for the past 20 years. Policies for a

Publication Date: 
29/06/1993
Farhad Vania
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Environment, Tropical Forests, Research, United Kingdom (UK), Global, Sustainable Development, Rio Summit
Environment

 Fighting for a place under the sun

The NISGA: are fighting with the British Columbian government to be recognised as a community. They came to Rio to "tell the world about their problems"

Publication Date: 
14/07/1992
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Environment, Tropical Forests, Race Relations, Tribals, UN, Rio Summit
Biodiversity

 Rio fever hits the networks

The mother of all summits grabbed a good deal of telecast time recently

Publication Date: 
29/06/1992
Sevanti Ninan
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Rio Summit, Tropical Forests, Biodiversity, TV, CSE, Developing Countries
Environment

 McNamara shoots from the hip

Today's neo Malthusians have acquired a fashionable new fig leaf: environmentalism. And Robert McNamara's recent talk in Delhi was an eloquent expression of this trend

Publication Date: 
29/06/1992
Pamela Philipose
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Environment, Women, World Bank, Developing Countries, Tropical Forests
Agriculture

 New drug for cancer

THE US National Cancer Institute plans to test nationwide a drug called taihoxifen that might prevent breast cancer, lower the number of deaths from heart attacks and reduce the number of broken

Publication Date: 
14/06/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecology, Agriculture, Tropical Forests, Diarrhoea, Health Care, Technology
Agriculture

 Forest medicines

SCIENTISTS are now advocating that harvesting locally used medicinal plants from tropical forests could be more lucrative than clearing the land for farming or growing timber. When compared to other

Publication Date: 
14/06/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecology, Agriculture, Tropical Forests, Diarrhoea, Health Care, Technology

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