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A clean ideal
An ambitious UN project to achieve a zero emissions industrial utopia takes off
An ambitious UN project to achieve a zero emissions industrial utopia takes off
Remains of asbestos mining industry are still polluting the rivers and air in South Africa
The east Himalayan tahr or shapi
http://www.unep.net This recently developed website from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) promotes the UNEP's programme of partnership and cooperation in preserving the
Boeing s new aircraft threatens to aggravate pollution
Farmers in Sri Lanka are up in arms against low-priced agricultural imports from India that have flooded the country's markets. After prolonged protest campaigns against the duty-free potato
A study sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Bank has sent out clear signals that human beings will
The proposal of a German organisation to plant trees in Argentina is facing large-scale opposition from the country's environmentalist.Prima Klima, a non-governmental organisation, is planning
The global divide in income, health and wealth has only widened further in this era of unregulated capitalism. And there are no signs of it being bridged
A NEW finding by the scientists of the New Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) brings good tidings for Indian farmers. High levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the
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ExxonMobil has emitted five per cent of CO<sub>2</sub> pollutant since 1882
Gene responsible in barley found
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,
BRITONS are the worst offenders when it comes to energy waste, says a recent survey carried out by the Energy Saving Trust (a UK-based NGO that addresses damaging effects of climate change) in five
• Ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, Japan and South Korea, who met recently in Cambodia for their annual talks, failed to fix any concrete energy
In 20 years, the world has come full circle: in the mid 1980s the process of globalisation intensified with the rich countries taking the lead in interconnecting countries because it was in their
poised for a big shift ? : The World may be on the brink of a change in climate patterns that could last 20 or 30 years, some scientists believe. If current temperature, conditions in the Pacific
<p>It was the biannual gathering of over 100,000 Protestants in Bremen, a small town in Germany. As the articulate minister for environment, Sigmar Gabriel, came to participate in a discussion on energy security for a climate-secure world, many stood up. Soon the hall was full of blue placards, held high, all saying: “No to coal.” The minister, I could see, was riled.
- The Indian wind power industry has witnessed rapid growth and comprises nearly 8 per cent of the country’s total installed generation capacity. The year 2010-11 was a remarkable one for the industry,