Inside this issue
First Report
Agriculture
In the dusty innards of Alanganallur, 35 km from the temple town of Madurai, ‘Doctor’ A. Bhanumathi is a familiar figure as she zips by on a scooter towards her clinic at 7 am sharp everyday.
Wildlife
The Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) was a freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze River in China.
Environment Solutions
Perpetuation of disparities, a worsening of poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy and the continuing deterioration of the ecosystem on which we depend for our well-being is what shackles our development today.
Do you have an abiding interest in fitness and food? Then here is an interesting spread that is easily digestible as it is just what Dadi recommended.
The problems faced by growers in the plantation sector and more particular those faced by the smaller growers whose entire subsistence is dictated by the forces of nature are many.
Mercury in environment
Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) is being projected as the panacea of all lighting needs of the nation which will control if not bring down the whopping demand for energy, which in India is mostly met from greenhouse gas-producing thermal power plants. But there is a poisonous side to this harbinger of good tidings that is being swept under the proverbial carpet, durries perhaps, in the Indian context.
Ground Movement
Development of appropriate and sustainable technology suitable for controlling various types of landslides is vital for reduction of landslide disaster in India.
