US acts to protect its coral reefs
The Department of Commerce has announced new actions the US will take to protect its coral reefs, following a recent report that almost one-third of the world's reefs have
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A cancer 'smart bomb'
A new drug called STI571 (brand name : Glivec) shows hope of conquering a form of leukemia by targeting the misbehaving cells, according to study conducted by US
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A website on environment
The Sustainable Development Networking Programmes (SDNP) being implemented by the Union Ministry of Forests is emerging as a potent medium among students in environmental quality monitoring and
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Closure will happen, promises Jagmohan
Union Urban Development Minister today ruled out any possibility that the directions given by him on December 11 for closure of polluting industries in non-confoming areas by January 3 will be
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Rains claim 94 lives in Andhra
Coninuous rain since Tuesday night devasted Andhra Pradesh, claiming 94 lives and requiring the evacuation of 16,000 people in 292 villages of 13
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JNPT flouts environment norms
The Maharashtra environment department has taken strong exception to the handling of volatile chemicals like naphtha at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust(JNPT) without proper environmental clearance
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Is BMW building a hydrogen bombshell?
BMW's 15-strong fleet of hydrogen powered 750hL sedans, emits water vapor and nothing else. BMW believes its system, developed over more than two decades at a cost of nearly $1 billion, is the answer
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New law form leftovers turns retailers green
Food retailers are rushing to find ways to deal with unsold food beside tossing it into the trash. This sudden urge to recycle has been prompted by a new food recycling law expected to be enforced
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Turning waste into fortune
FIRMAPLUS, a Malaysia-based waste mangement and processing firm, is seeking to turn waste, including that is discharged by the country's palm oil industry, into a fortune, its Chief Executive Officer
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Experts claw at dying vultures riddle
What's preying on vultures? Is it a pandemci which started from South-East Asia a decade ago that has felled birds in India and is set to hit Nepal and Pakistan? Or is it something else? As an
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Monarch habitat is being slashed away
Over the past 20 years, biologists have voiced increasing concern about the monarch butterfly's most threatened and critical habitat, a single stretch of Mexican forest to which hundreds of millions
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Why the World Bank walked out of Coal India project
World Bank officials took a Hippocratic oath when they agreed in 1997 to led India more than a half-billion dollars to mine coal. PSU became 'productive and profitable' with loan but left most
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50 lakh tubewells need arsenic testing
About 8,500 arsenic patients have so far been identified across Bangladesh, the National Steering Committee on arsenic was informed in
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Govt. to seek legal opinion on forest land use
The Karnataka Chief Minister, Mr. S.M. Krishna, said on Monday that the Government would seek legal opinion on the problem pertaining to utilisation of the forest land for non-forest purposes,
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Locals demand removal of polluting bone mills
Locals of Ikhachhen in Lalitpur district of Nepal strongly demanded that two bone mills, located just above a stone spout should be shited elsewhere. "Fifty one persons have suffered from diarrhoea
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U.S. push against whaling angers Japan
An American decision to punish Japan for expanding its whale-hunting by denying the country certain fishing rights in U.S. waters is unjust, Japanese leaders said. The chief cabinet secretary,
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SC misled on industries' relocation
Khurana: The former Delhi Chief Minister and Sadar MP, Mr. Madan Lal Khurana, today accused the Delhi Government of adopting a "callous approach" on relocation of industrial units but refused to
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Fish exposed to oil spill reach market
The oil has started spilling out once again from "River Princess", the grounded ship off Sinquerim coast in North Goa, as the vertical wall of river booms erected around the wrecked ship is suddenly
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2 horses die of West Nile Virus in Connecticut
Three horses in Danbury, Hebron and Milford have been infected with the West Nile virus, the first cases in mammals in the state this year.Two of the horses died as a result of the virus, officials
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Smell of success leaves Hong Kong gasping
While China has nine of the world's 10 worst-polluted cities, Hong Kong is not usually counted among them.Even so, jokes about the "fragrant harbor" have been doing the rounds for years. With an