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High lead content in Salt Lake water
Water in some blocks of Salt Lake, Calcutta has been found to contain lead, in tests conducted by an
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New sewage plant part of BDA's beauty treatment for Lalbagh
The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) is planning to install a new sewage treatment plant in Lalbagh lake to reuse precious water. The initiative is part of the beautification plan for the
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Pollution in the name of God
Many rivers and lakes in India are polluted not only by the release of industrial pollutants but also owing to release of offerings in the name of Gods that will decay and pollute. Only unpainted
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POWER GAMES
The Kerala High court has admitted a writ petition challenging the proposed 500-MW naphtha power project in the private sector. The project is to be set up at district Kannur with an estimated
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Soft Target
Children are bearing the brunt of environmental degradation. Across the class divide, they are eating, drinking and breathing poison. And their special bodies make them most vulnerable to a host of diseases
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Popular campaign
THE Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NFEJ) is celebrating transmission of 250 episodes of Aankhijhyal, a programme on environmental, social and sustainable development concerns.
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INDIA
• The Thar desert is fast witnessing a steady decline in its groundwater level. In a recent symposium on "Recent Advances in the Management of Arid Eco-systems" held in Jodhpur, Rajasthan,
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Surprising statistic
In the guise of making washing easy, detergents are directing a chemical fusillade at the environment in the absence of regulation, discovers <font class='UCASE'>suresh babu s v</font>
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The toll rises
Plants, birds, animals and humans, acid rain will spare no living organism
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Brakes put on car use
with smog levels soaring, authorities in Italy's northern Lombardy region recently urged drivers to do away with their cars for three days. This was done to reduce the dense smoky fog made worse
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Pochard resurrected
THE MADAGASCAR pochard, a duck species thought extinct 22 years ago, has been resurrected with the recent finding of a lone male in the island nation in the Indian Ocean. The duck was nabbed by a
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Panchayat reigns supreme
The Vaddis are the dominating community in Kolleru's fishing villages. They have a tightly controlled form of self governance that ensures equitable distribution of income
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The salt of the earth
Moves are afoot to convert the brackish Pulicat lake into a freshwater one to supply water to Madras city and authorities seem to have little regard for the ecological and environmental consequences.
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'Pesticides have more alarming effects than mere cancer'
The chief of staff of the International Joint Commission IJC of the United States and Canada, DAVID LaROCHE has 25 years of national and international diplomatic and non governmental campaign experience behind him. He has served 4 United States admini
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Bapu s homecoming
He shares his name with the father of the nation. But that's not where the similarity ends. If an incident in South Africa was to change Mahatma Gandhi's life forever, Gujarat's second Bapu's
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Deep Impact
In spite of ample evidence highlighting the adverse effects of pesticides on wildlife, it continues to be used indiscriminately in India. Worse, the government has not yet incorporated any of the findings in its policies, nor has it conducted serious rese
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The rich tradition
That turned bane
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Extreme rainfall events and associated natural hazards in Alaknanda Valley，Indian Himalayan region
Entire Himalayan region is vulnerable to rain-induced (torrential rainfall) hazards in the form of flash flood, cloudburst or glacial lake outburst flood. Flash floods and cloudburst are generally caused
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Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan, December 2013
<p>Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan, Dec 2013 Erratic climate change events have hit the rice production in Pakistan this year and to take account of damages, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its end-of-the-season report has downgraded its production forecast for the country by 600,000 tonnes to 8.7 million tonnes (5.8m tonnes, milled basis). Read more in this December 2013 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan</p>