Bangkok
A problem of mammoth proportions has besotted the Thai capital as well as Phuket, Pattaya and Chiangmai. Nearly 100 elephants from the northeastern part of the country have recently been brought to
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Semantic folly
Sri Lankan environmental agency defines who s an environmentalist
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Some funds creating green portfolios, but investment routes won't change soon
Asset managers are trying to take environmental and social issues into consideration when selecting companies to invest in. Mutual fund managers were originally bound by law in the us and in Europe
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United nations
The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has planned to launch 49 projects to phase out 5,000 metric tonne of ozone depleting substances (ODS) in 27 developing countries,
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Chemical vanilla
Coal tar, paper mill effluent, what else What we know as vanilla, the queen of spice, is not vanilla. It smells like it (somewhat). It can even look like it. But it is not the real thing, which
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• Argentina recently filed a case in the International Court of Justice against Uruguay to stop constructing pulp mills along the shared Uruguay river. Argentina fears these mills will cause
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mad cow victim: Florida-based Charlene Singh, 25, suffering the only known instance of the human form of mad cow disease in the US, died recently. She was ill since 2001. She suffered from the
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Don t fish : a global call
Britain's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has issued an alarm, saying the marine ecosystem around the world is on the verge of collapse. In its recent report Turning the Tide , it has
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Basin watering recipe
The Amazon basin countries recently launched a new initiative to help the region's inhabitants manage water, forests and wildlife more efficiently. Water will be the focus area of the project,
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Bust the mills
The governor of Argentina's Entre Rios province, bordering Uruguay, recently announced his decision to file a complaint with us -based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, opposing the
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Laissez Faire
Government sits back, carmakers make hay No one knows where to place the ultra-low-cost cars in the overall paradigm shift in technology in India. Small cars and downsizing have begun to find
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danger spilling out: Mexico's oil monopoly Pemex recently confirmed the fifth fuel spill in the past four months, even as authorities quoted a requirement of US $9 billion to repair the country's
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• 17 Chinese fisherfolk, who were arrested and convicted for poaching in Philippine waters off Palawan, have been pardoned by President Arroyo as they were "first-time offenders'. • Hong
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• Australian scientists digging in an Indonesian cave uncovered a jawbone that adds evidence to the existence of a tiny 18,000-year-old Hobbit-like species called Homo floresiensis, three
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• The EU announced on April 25, 2005 that it has approved a method for testing the Bt10 variety of genetically modified corn. The move might end an EU ban on the import of US corn gluten and
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Finally, some action
The Chinese government recently announced that it will close down around 4,000 small coal mines annually, over the next three years. Zhao Tiechui, head of the state administration of Coal Mine Safety
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Unbearable!
Polar bears in Arctic are suffering due to industrial chemicals
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Lead to a fall
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