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Or weed it out
Using water hyacinth
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From butterfly to caterpillar
Stung by unplanned growth, Naini Tal once a queen among hill resorts is being divested of her riches.
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Bytes
lake on mars: Claims that life exists on Mars were boosted when scientists recently declared they saw the remains of a frozen sea on the planet's surface and speculated the ice may hold preserved
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Architect M N Sharma on why Chandigarh's beauty is becoming history
Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris, plans to put Chandigarh in UNESCO's modern heritage list. m n sharma, the first architect to work with Le Corbusier, tells savvy soumya misra about an urbanization
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INDIA
The Delhi government has decided to ban plying of all 12-year-old light and medium commercial vehicles, includ ing tempos and matadors and 15-year-old two wheelers in the city from January 1, 2001.
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Drained India's inland wetlands
During the last ten years, India has lost about 38 per cent of its inland wetlands; in some districts, as much as 88 per cent of the wetlands have disappeared. Almost all wetlands are heavily contaminated with pesticides and heavy metals. Rich in biodiver
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Not amusing
Rs 25 crore water park in Kerala s Kannur district
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DANGEROUS EXPLORATION
The Sunder ban area of Bangladesh will be explored for its oil and gas reserves by Shell, Anglo-Dutch oil company. The Sunder bans are the home to some of the world's most endangered wildlife.
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Poison in Indian food
Reports of high mercury content in us waters have alarmed American Indians in Minnesota, among the biggest fish consumers. According to a recent report based on us Environmental Protection Agency
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Caught in the wet
Wetland management is drawing increasing flak for advocating misdirected conservation strategies and disregarding local needs
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Sultanpur national park as eco-sensitive: draft notification
Sultanpur national park has been declared as an eco-sensitive zone as per this draft notification issued by Ministry of Environment and Forests.
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In Parliament
The winter session of parliament may have been truncated. It also got underway against the backdrop of the recent assembly elections as well as scandals involving former Union minister of state for
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KENYA
Environmenta lists are concerned about reports that flamingoes living in Lake Bogoria in the Great Rift Valley are facing grave threats because of irresponsible dumping of untreated industrial
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Flowing study
Meandering water channels always follow a gently winding path. Why this happens has been explained with the help of a model developed by physicists Taniemola Liverpool and Sam Edwards,
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Choking Kolkata
taxis are the most polluting vehicles in Kolkata, reveals a survey carried out by the Calcutta Metropolitan Develop ment Authority. At least 50 per cent of the city's taxis were found to be
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INDIA
In a novel scheme to keep Delhi roads free of litter, the municipal corporation has decided to levy a penalty of Rs 50 on those found spitting, dumping vegetable, groundnut skins and cigarette buds
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Net loss
Fishing practices in Chilika are threatening the Irrawaddy dolphin, which is not only rare but also little known
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Glacial Lake Outburst Flood
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Glacial lake outburst flood</strong></span></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/nepal/floods_hl.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid;" /></p> <p>The acronym GLOF is used for glacier floods caused by the drainage of naturally dammed lakes in the glacier, on or at the margin of glaciers. Glacial lakes form when a glacier retreats, leaving the debris mass at the end of the glacier – the end moraine – exposed.</p>
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Supreme Court judgment on mining in the Aravalli hill range of Haryana as on 18 March, 2004
The main question to be examined in these matters is whether the
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Diminishing returns
Traditional fisherfolk of Chilika marginalized