COVID-19 Air Quality Report
<p>Coinciding with the 50th anniversary ofEarth Day, this report investigates the impact COVID-19 lockdowns have had on global particulate pollution levels.As lockdowns were implemented in response to
New York
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Wildlife exhibition in NY steals show
Violent clash between human and nature
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Saving Dow?
<font class="UCASE"><b>July 10, 2006:</b></font> Industrialist Ratan Tata writes to Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram recommending setting up of a site remediation fund. "Tatas would be willing to spearhead and contribute to such an exercise
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What after Kyoto
One hundred and fifty world leaders participated in the UN meet on climate change in New York. Excerpts from some key speakers' addresses: <br>
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News snippets
>> South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against the country service provider Telkom's "Do Broadband' television and Internet-based advertising campaign in which the agency
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We don't smell the air
I smelled the air of Bangalore last week. It was foul. I remembered how in the late 1990s, when Delhi s air was dark and dirty, we had run an advertisement in the newspapers Roll down the window of
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New York gets US $350 million to check congestion
new York mayor Michael R Bloomberg announced recently that the federal department of transport had awarded more than us $350 million to New York to implement the mayor's alternative plan to reduce
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In court
cell phone Ban
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New York mayor announces plans to make city green
new York City is set to go green. Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced his ambitious "planyc-2030' for a "greener and greater' New York. The following are the highpoints of the plan
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Nine US states sue EPA over mercury emissions
nine states in the us, along with several environmental groups, have sued the United States Environmental Protection Agency (epa) for adopting a rule that refuses to regulate mercury and other
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Reported residential pesticide use and breast cancer risk on Long Island, New York
Pesticides, common environmental exposures, have been examined in relation to breast cancer primarily in occupational studies or exposure biomarker studies. No known studies have focused on self-reported