CARE--a model for communities.
The Community Action for Renewed Environment (CARE) program is premised on the belief that when residents, businesses, organizations, schools, and governments join together to leverage tools and resources, they will find the best solutions to solve local environmental health problems. The CARE model is simple: join together, identify and...

Growing pains: with 85 per cent of the UK's cut flowers being reported from overseas, ready-made bunches in your local supermarket often come with the caveats of carbon footprints, pollution and low wages for growers and workers. Victoria Lambert explains how the ethical consumer can buy carnations with a clear conscience.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Not content with being a nation of gardeners, Britain, it seems, is now addicted to the heady quick fix of cut flowers. While the slow and gentle pleasure of sowing seeds and cajoling plants into life still has its fans, many of us prefer to...

Assessing Humans & nature: 5 impacts.
More and more people agree that problems exist with the environment, but what exactly are those problems? Global warming? Unchecked consumption? Too many cars? Species extinction? Pollution? They're all right. And they're all wrong. Today's environmental issues, while all important, are really just pieces of...

The Coke side of a third life.
NEW DELHI: No high-decibel Cola war. No memorable tongue-in-cheek TV campaigns. No big-bang celebrities getting signed on. And those little squabbles on marketshares too have been missing. If cricket season was a complete washout, the summer this year lacked in buzz and fizz for the cola companies in India....

Development and management of a geographic information system for health research in a developing-country setting: a case study from Bangladesh.
ABSTRACT In the last decade, geographic information systems (GIS) have become accessible to researchers in developing countries, yet guidance remains sparse for developing a GIS. Drawing on experience in developing a GIS for a large community trial in rural Bangladesh, six stages for constructing, maintaining, and using...

The spraying of America: American agriculture dumps a billion pounds of pesticides on food, producing a truly toxic harvest.
When Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published in 1962, the American pesticide business was in full postwar bloom. These "elixirs of death," descended from World War II chemical warfare experiments, were suddenly ubiquitous--growing fivefold from 124 million pounds in 1947, to 637 million by 1960. Roughly 60 percent of...

Chicken eating becomes fowl play.
Diehard chicken eaters are seeking other options Their day wasn't made without some tandoori murgh or butter chicken. But they're rethinking their options now. "The bird flu scare has affected our home badly," admits manager Aparna P. Her household would consume eggs for breakfast and chicken twice...

Kerala orders probe into custodial deaths.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala cabinet on Wednesday decided to have a judicial inquiry into the series of deaths that have taken place in the state, some of them custodial deaths and others caused indirectly owing to police action. In all, 13 police-related deaths are estimated to have taken...

Efecto tóxico de DDT y endosulfan en postlarvas de camarón blanco, Litopenaeus vannamei (Decapoda: Penaeidae) de Chiapas, Mexico.
RESUMEN Con el fin de conocer la toxicidad del DDT y endosulfan sobre postlarvas de camarón blanco (Litopenaeus vannaei), se realizaron pruebas de toxicidad aguda en condiciones de laboratorio por 168 h, con temperatura de 29 [+ ó -] 1 [grados]C, salinidad de 3 [+ ó -]...

Guarding earth: environmental technicians monitor the health of our air, water, and land.
None of them is faster than a speeding bullet. Not one can leap over a tall building in a single bound. And you'll never see any flying through the sky like a plane. Still, environmental technicians people who protect and clean up our environment--do more each day to save...