What if the nurturer herself turns into a polluter? Smoking and / or drinking mothers poison the foetus. Alcohol consumers expose the foetus to alcohol syndrome, which engenders congenital
The Voluntary Health Association of India (vhai) has launched a campaign to ban and withdraw the manufacture, sale and distribution of endosulfan, a deadly chemical pesticide. vhai's call for
The threat to the foetus seems all pervasive, with even something as seemingly innocuous as a computer display screen being a threat. High levels of radiation (including X-rays, magnetic impulses
The South Korean non-governmental organisation Citizen's Coalition for Economic Justice (ccej), recently launched the Green Family campaign. The campaign specifically aims at the reduction of
Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of the current phase of warming. The debate is whether the affluent North or the developing South has been more responsible and who will be polluting more in the near future.
One would that if more than 1,000 scientists belonging to various countries and working for 10 years, pointed out the grave danger posed by increasing carbon emissions to the climate as well as the global economy, world leaders would take notice and initiate restorative action. Instead, they choose to either pass on the buck or worse,
The Western Ghats in the south of India have forests which are, for some plant species, their exclusive home on this earth. No wonder then, that Western bioprospectors have their eyes set on these forests due to their exquisite quality. But the apparent i
Plans to set up lignite and China clay mines in the biologically diverse and rich Madayipara plateau of Kerala s Kannur district has its residents agitated over the certain destruction it will bring to the region
Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of the current phase of warming. The debate is whether the affluent North or the developing South has been more r
