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Babies’ genomes to be mapped at birth by 2019 
Dr. Jay T. Flatley, CEO of the biotech company Illumina, the United States, has predicted that every baby will have its entire genome decoded at birth by the year 2019...
New centre on underutilized crops for food security
An international body for gathering and promoting knowledge about underused crops is to be established in Malaysia...

Nations for link between ozone layer and climate change efforts  

The United Nations should twin its efforts to combat ozone depletion and climate change to reap the greatest economic and environmental benefits,...

More chemicals to be tagged as hazardous

Scientists have started reviewing some everyday and industrial chemicals used in such products as.,..

First super cancer centre

Birmingham will become the first link in a unique chain of Cancer Research UK Centres to be set up across the United Kingdom. These cancer centres...

More waste disposal sites in Sri Lanka 

Sri Lanka has approved two more waste disposal sites, with private sector participation, to handle the garbage generated...

Stricter control in Viet Nam on imported foodstuffs
All eggs imported from China found contaminated with melamine will be destroyed,....
Philippines committed to Montreal Protocol
As a party to the Montreal Protocol, the Philippines is on schedule in its commitment to phase out the use of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) by 2010...
 

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The environmental benefits of a new refrigerant
The Society of Automotive Engineers International Cooperative Research Programme, which is sponsored by major automotive manufacturers, recently released a report summarizing results of...

Fluorescence method for detecting mercury in fish

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, the United States, have developed a simple and quick method for detecting mercury in fish and dental samples....

Infra-red optic device for waste plastic recycling

IoSys, Germany, developed Mobile Infra-Red optic (mIRo) device for identifying plastics, as plastic recycling demands that plastic materials be sorted according....

Plastic bottle recycling system

In the United Kingdom, Closed Loop Recycling Ltd. recycles used plastic bottles back into food-grade quality material in a process chain that involves several technologies....

New high-throughput method to detect melamine in food
MDS Analytical Technologies, the United States, has announced the validation of Abraxis Melamine Detection Kit for use on its SpectraMax®...

Combatting CFC effects with nitrogen recycling

A large proportion of refrigerators contain harmful chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which, if not disposed of properly, can have a devastating effect on the atmosphere. Messer Group, Germany, is supplying liquid nitrogen to combat this problem...

Ozone hole over Antarctica grows again
The ozone hole over Antarctica grew to the size of North America in 2008 – the fifth largest on record – according to the latest satellite observations. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),...
 

 Articles

Options for sustainable agriculture
in the tropics
 
An Overview
Peeyush Soni and Vilas M. Salokhe
Sustainable integrated management of
crop with allied enterprises

Ensuring livelihood security of small and marginal farmers
C. Jayanthi, C. Vennila, K. Nalini and B. Chandrasekaran
Air pollution control
Technologies in the transport sector
Manju Mohan, Renuka Saini and Shweta Bhati
Asian dust aerosol models (ADAM)
Parameterization of dust emission reduction factors
Soon-Ung Park, Anna Choe, Moon-Soo Park and Eun-Hee Lee

Balancing the hydrological system

A Japanese approach to sustaining urban areas

Masahiro Imbe, Hiroyuki Okui and Jouichi Kouso 

 
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