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Coral Bleaching: Reasons and Impacts

Coral bleaching is the loss of intracellular endosymbionts through either expulsion or loss of algal pigmentation. When corals...

📅 February 11, 2016

Problem of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in India

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) or Urban Solid Waste is a waste that includes predominantly household waste (domestic waste)...

📅 February 11, 2016

Various Issues around GM Mustard DMH-11

In February 2016, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GMEC) deferred the decision to allow the commercial production of...

📅 February 11, 2016

What happened to Bt Brinjal in India?

Bt Brinjal is a GM crop created by inserting Cry 1Ac gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis...

📅 February 11, 2016

Various Issues around Bt Cotton in India

Bt cotton, a transgenic plant which produces an insect controlling protein Cry1A(c), the gene for which has been...

📅 February 11, 2016

Legal Framework Around GM Crops

Globally, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), particularly its Cartagena Protocol is related to GM crops. The basic...

📅 February 11, 2016

Various Issues with GM Crops

The debate on safety and need for GM crops, particularly GM food has been lingering since 1990s. The...

📅 February 11, 2016

Genetic Engineering

Genes, as we know are unique set of instructions which decide how all the living things (including the...

📅 February 11, 2016

Selective Breeding Versus Genetic Engineering

It is thought that agriculture involving domestication of plants and animals was developed around 12,000 years ago. Human...

📅 February 11, 2016

Critical Assessment of EIA Process in India

There are several drawbacks with the EIA process in India from screening to environment clearance stages. During the...

📅 February 11, 2016

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