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Organic Farming Can Feed the World

...of synthetic fertilizers. They found that planting green manures between growing seasons provided enough nitrogen to farm organically without synthetic fertilizers. Organic farming is important because conventional agriculture---which involves high-yielding plants, mechanized tillage, synthetic fertiliz...

Paris at Her Self-obsessive Best

...on showed up at the event wearing a figure hugging green dress and high Christian Louboutin shoes, reports the Daily Mail. Late last week, Hilton got back to the club scene, just two weeks after she finished serving time. The socialite was seen at hotspot Les Deux on a girls' night out on June 6, with...

Adding Folic Acid to Flour Lessens Congenital Malformations

...d to major health problems. Folic acid is found in green vegetables, fruit, whole grains, and meat. However, even a balanced diet is not able to provide sufficient folic acid for a pregnant mother and the child she is carrying. In the U.S., fortification of many cereal products with folic acid became ma...

Feeding Programme Gives Hope to Tribal Mothers

...e malnutrition, yellow moderate malnourishment and green normal. The charts stating the health status of each child is prominently displayed at Anganwadi centres, stirring the mothers to improve the status of their children. The maps show the location of the feeding centres in the village.The rural women...

Evolution of HIV from African Greek Monkeys

...eviously thought . A new family tree for African green monkeys shows that an HIV-like virus, simian immun...ly, scientists thought SIV infected an ancestor of green monkeys before the lineage split, much longer ago. "Studying SIV helps us learn more about HIV," s...

Galvus Soon To Be Seen On European Shelves

Galvus, a drug from Novartis AG has been given the green light from the European Medicines Agency. Now open to the European market, Galvus has nevertheless still no access to its American counterpart. The decision by a committee of experts at the European Medicines Agency came soon after Novartis sa...

Nutritious Diet Help Improve Childrens Academic Performance

...leaving the house. Encourage children to choose green vegetables and fruits with the entre. Pizza and chicken fingers are okay occasionally as long as they are balanced....

Green Box Converts Car Fumes into Biofuel

...wanted gases. These unwanted gases are also called green house gas such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide and they add to the global warming. The box then emits water vapor. The captured gases can be developed to create a biofuel using genetically modified algae. This box has been developed by organi...

101 Websites That can Change Your Life Enlisted

...also includes several sites on the environment and green issues, such as Recyclenow, to changing career with online advice such as Homeworking.com....

Pregnant Women's Contest to Curb Infant Mortality

...for check-ups every three months and ate plenty of green vegetables. "I went to the hospital to deliver my baby and the baby boy is quite healthy. He falls sick less frequently than my elder daughter who took birth at home," she said adding that she received a lunch container and utensils as prizes for c...

Indian Weather Station Near Glacier to Study Global Warming

...aily energy requirement. "It would be a complete green endeavour. A three-member team, including one glaciologist and me, will leave for Chhota Shigri for field inspection. We hope the station will come up by the year end," he said adding that the initial investment would be Rs.2 million. Rautela, who ...

Flower-power on a Plate in Paris

...s have to offer for gourmets. From begonia soup to green terrines using chrysanthemums and hemerocallis quiche, Nardo grows her own flowers and says the new cuisine "is easy for anyone." Flower-power food is "part and parcel of the general return to what is natural and vegetal," she said. As for Rambourg, ...

Toxic Algae Pose New Health Scare in China

...5 square miles) of its surface were covered by the green slime, the newspaper said. Local government officials were monitoring water quality "by the hour" in the lake, Zhang Bangguo, Anhui province Environmental Protection Agency chief engineer was quoted as saying, describing the situation as "grave." L...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

... one from extracts of black tea and the other from green tea to cater to different palates," Hazarika told IANS. "The drink is made from pure natural tea extracts having a lot of medicinal properties in them." The Tocklai Station, located in the tea-growing town of Jorhat in eastern Assam, was set up i...

Sunita Returns June 21 After 194-day Record Space Odyssey

...ey by a woman with the mission managers giving the green signal. Sunita and six other astronauts who came June 10 to fetch her bid farewell to her replacement Clayton Anderson and two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) before the hatches between their spaceship and the station cl...

Bone Health Protection by Dietary Calcium

...urces such as calcium-fortified orange juice. Dark green leafy vegetables also contain calcium, but it is not as readily absorbed as calcium from dairy sources....

Kashmir University Stops Construction to Save Chinar Trees

... changing colours during the autumn season. From green to crimson, red and finally yellow, the leaves of the chinar present an autumnal spectacle of colour, which fascinates tourists so much that they time their next Kashmir vacation with the changing colours of the chinar leaves. Besides its grandeur ...

'Hi, can You Hear Me? I'm at 30,000 Feet'

...maker Airbus and airline IT group Sita, received a green light from the European Aviation Safety Agency on Monday to begin fitting equipment to commercial jets. The technology is to be operated by an Air France plane for the first time in September this year and will then roll out across the world, with ...

EU Move Against Mercury Should Be Adopted in India: NGO

...overnment to do likewise. Toxics Link and other green groups hailed the EU resolution on Wednesday. The group had called upon governments across the world to ban import of mercury at the 24th United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in February. In one of its studies carried out in a few hospita...

Civic Authorities in US Seek to Stem Urban Decay

...o demolish vacant houses and buildings and open up green space in Youngstown in northeast Ohio . The hope is the tough, blue-collar environment of the gritty city could be redefined that way parks may grow, crime may drop and property values may rise. If Youngstown becomes more livable, job and popula...

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