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  • IN COURT

    Intervention of the highest court in the land has finally ensured that the beautiful hill resort of Nainital -- marred by various polluting agents -- still retained its pristine splendour. A petition

  • Tree for all

    MODERN tissue Culture technology has come to the aid of the environment. Scientists in Australia's culture laboratories have developed a wonder tree - nicknamed Paulownia - which can help ease

  • EQUADOR

    The residents of Galapagos Islands in we engaged in an angry war of words with conservationists.Furious that modocian president, Doran Ballen, has a new law that would have allowed them to

  • FOR THE FORESTS

    The Sri Lankan forestry industry is in for a massive improvement with tIle Asian Development Bank approving a $60 million loan and $400,000 technical assistance granrecently. The grants will help

  • HARDY SURVIVOR

    Twin problems of war and drought has eaten into the Sri Lankan economy. However, the resilience of the economy to fight back during previous shocks has seen it past most major crises. This time

  • GREEN GRANTS

    With a US $30 million grant from the European Commission (EC) announced recently, the Punjab and North West Frontier provinces in Pakistan are being targeted for environmental

  • SUBCONTINENTAL WOES

    The US-based International Food Policy Research Institute has warned that while the food requirements of south Asian countries could double in the next 25 years, its natural resource base is likely

  • FOREST WEALTH

    A detailed survey of Bhutan's ecological diversity will soon be undertaken to facilitate a better understanding of the country's wealth. Presenting a framework for assessing the biodiversity, Deki

  • UNITED NATIONS

    Supply of clean fresh water, already threatened by soaring pollution levels, is depleting at such a rate in some regions that within 30 years two-thirds of humanity will suffer "moderate to severe

  • ACCORDS SIGNED

    Recently, Bangladesh signed four agreements with Vietnam. The accords were on the formation of a joint commission for economic, cultural, scientific and technical cooperation between the two nations.

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