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Legends and ecological history
• Geological studies in Kashmir have shown that the rise of the Pir Panjal range around four million years ago resulted in the formation of a vast lake, impounding drain- age in the
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Lake poisoned, thousands of fish perish
Batalagundu FISH worth Rs 12 lakh were found floating in a tank near Batalagundu in Dindigul district as the water was poisoned.Siruvankulam tank is situated near Thumbaipatti. Seven months ago, a group of 10 persons had taken the tank on lease and began rearing fish. On Thursday morning, the lessees had gone to the tank to fish and found the fish floating dead. The people of the area were told not to consume the fish. All the dead fish were buried near the tank. On a complaint by Murugan, one of the lessees, Batalagundu police have registered a case and are investigating.
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Safari park fails to breed sweet-water crocodiles
The safari park in Cox's Bazar has failed in breeding of the sweet-water crocodiles gifted by the Indian authorities more than two years back. The Indian government gave 40 sweeter-water crocodiles as a gift to Bangladesh from its reptile bank in Chennai at the end of 2005, official sources said. Twenty-nine of them were released in the lake of the country's lone safari park near the Cox's Bazar tourist resort for their breeding while five were sent to Dhaka Zoo and the remaining released in Khan Zahan Ali mazar pond in Bagerhat.
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Alaska off the hook
In a reversal of its earlier plan, the Bush administration now wants to keep Alaska's potentially oil-rich wetlands off-limits to oil and gas drilling. The Bureau of Land Management has
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Humans creating a jumbo problem
Brutality, man-made disasters cause regular elephant deaths With their habitat shrinking fast, elephants are regularly falling prey to human brutality and man-made disasters. The last few days have been especially tragic for these gentle beasts. After the shooting down of a tusker in Ranipur Jhal area of Hardwar district last Thursday, an elephant and her one-year-old calf were electrocuted near Dimna lake near Jamshedpur on Monday while the decomposed body of another pachyderm was discovered at the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand.
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Snow and glaciers of the himalayas: inventory and monitoring - discussion paper
<p>The Himalayan glaciers are a valuable national and global resource – they possess the largest concentration of ice outside of the Polar Regions; regulate global climate; feed most of northern India’s perennial rivers; and are an important indicator of climate change. However, this source of water is not permanent, as glacial dimensions change with the climate.
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Funds for revamp of Rabindra Sarobar
West Bengal ministry of environment and forest will fund Rabindra Sarobar's development. The artificial lake over 73 acres was built in the 1940s. KIT had submitted to the Centre a project to develop
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HC directive in PIL to govt. departments for preserving lakes
A division bench of the J&K high court on Saturday directed all the departments linked directly or indirectly with the lakes and water ways to effectively preserve them. It has also issued a set of
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Hydro-climatic and ecological behaviour of the drought of Amazonia in 2005
In 2005, southwestern Amazonia experienced the effects of an intense drought that affected life and biodiversity. Several major tributaries as well as parts of the main river itself contained only a fraction of their normal volumes of water, and lakes were drying up. Analyses of climatic and hydrological records in Amazonia suggest a broad consensus that the 2005 drought was linked not to El Nin
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Watered down?
Final judgement delivered in Ahmedabad lakes case. But apprehensions remain...
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SC directive to eco panel
The Supreme Court has asked the Environment Protection Authority headed by Mr. Bhurelal to submit a report on the water table in the eco-sensitive Badkal lake and Surajkund area in Haryana, on a
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Silt eating up Renuka lake
The picturesque Renuka lake in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh continues to shrink despite serious efforts by the State Wild Life Department to check the flow of silt into the national wetland.
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Thousands throng to clean Upper Lake
Bhoj Wetland Project officials actively participated in Upper Lake 'shramdan' on Saturday near Karbala Pump House Madhya Pradesh. A large number of intellectual community members besides BMC staff
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Growth of weeds mars beauty of Kodaikanal lake
The Kodaikanal lake, one of the prime attractions of this tourist resort in Tamil Nadu, is a picture of utter neglect with weeds, moss and brush covering the surface. There is a tussle as to who owns
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With no rain, water crisis continues
The Bhopal city is facing severe water crisis with Upper Lake drying up and the ground water level falling with every passing day. There is no sign of monsoon even as it is mid July, which is causing
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Life feels the effects of a changing climate
Climate change is already altering our planet's biology, with only life in Antarctica so far spared its influence. That's the conclusion from an analysis of tens of thousands of individual local studies covering shrinking glaciers, changing river flows, melting permafrost, increased coastal erosion, and warming lakes and rivers. The study, published in Nature (DOI: 10.1038/nature06937) this week, is based on more comprehensive data than any previous investigation of the biological effects of climate change.
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Water cut from tomorrow
In the city of lakes,Bhopal which is facing extreme water crisis. Water will be supplied on alternate days from July 12. This water cut was supposed to be exercised from July 11 earlier.
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CRE finds new use for polluted lake sediments
For the first time, organisations concerned with the environment have come up with a proposal of using chemically contaminated soil, lake silt and solid wastes as road strengthening materials. The
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Upper Lake water level alarms Bhopalites
Mayor Ms Vibha Patel said on Tuesday that the level of water level in the Upper Lake had reached a now low of 1650 feet, which was the lowest in 50 years. It was therefore essential to supply water