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Fit to drink

Tap water norms on the anvil

Sugarcane stir

"BT Brinjal cannot be grown commercially till safety issues are sorted out"

Cat coffee

It takes guts to make the most expensive coffee

Is chemical the culprit?

Scientists in Bihar find a plausible link between pesticides and breast cancer

What it takes to deliver midday meal

Fatal disconnect

Pesticide fatigue

Makes the busy bee a lazy pollinator

South Asia

France extends GM corn ban

News 360° - Briefs

A plate half full

The National Food Security Bill may not do much but what it does is essential

Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

States take the fizz out of cola

Budget 2008: missing the big picture

News 360° - Briefs

Superbug prompts antibiotics policy

Standard treatment guidelines will determine drug prescription

Over 2.8 billion people may be pushed into living in areas with severe ecological threats by 2050

More than half of hotspot countries facing a severe threat are in sub-Saharan Africa

WWF: 32 million acres of grasslands across US & Canadian Great Plains ploughed up since 2012

Destruction of grasslands across Great Plains continues at an unsustainable pace

Climate impact on health: India’s heat-related deaths went up by 55%, finds Lancet data

Countries, companies continue to make choices threatening health of the people

Africa must be priority if humanity is to conquer hunger; but it is only getting worse there

By 2030, Africa will be home to the largest number of undernourished people

New polyhouse technology to help cultivate off-season crops

Genetic secrets of peanut varieties unveiled

Scientists found that its sequence was comparable in size to that of the human genome

Unsafe food is 'growing global threat', says WHO

Organisation estimates that unsafe food contributed to 351,000 deaths in 2010