Toxic bloom hits Gippsland lakes
A toxic blue-green algal bloom is spreading across the Gippsland lakes (Australia), with signs being erected from Metung to Lakes Entrance warning against swimming and fishing. The bloom, so far
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Huge population of turtles in Mansar lake
Mansar lake, 56 km east of Jammu, is probably the only sweet water lake in the entire world which has a huge population of turtles, according to Sadiq Ali, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly
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Vadodara council to file plea in HC over lake pollution
Despite a recent Gujarat High Court order asking Gujarat government to maintain all water bodies-like lakes, ponds, rivers and canals in the state-Masiya lake at Manjalpur is currently in the process
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Blue algae strangle lake in Yunnan
Blue algae are plaguing Dianchi, Yunnan Province's once-beautiful "Mother Lake." The smothering organisms have formed a sticky green layer on the surface, suffocating life in the lake and sending out
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Stink beetles herald a miracle in the desert
About once a decade, a large lake-Lake Eyre appears in the middle of Australia. Heavy rains turn large tracts of the central desert green. This year's flooding is already on a par with 1989-90.
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A first for Bhuj as 1,500 rosy pelicans swamp Hamirsar lake
The century-old Hamirsar lake, in the heart of Bhuj, are host to about 1,500 rosy pelicans who have made the lake their winter abode. This is the first time the birds have come to the
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Poachers give the slip to Chilka guards
A cat-and-mouse game has started around Chilka lake. Forest and police officials find it difficult to patrol the lake and nab poachers who develop ingenuous techniques of catching migratory birds.
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Votes only if Dal Lake is cleaned, say boatmen
Boatmen of the famed Dal Lake in Srinagar have set a condition to political parties if they want them to vote in the coming elections: clean the picturesque lake which is in danger of being
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Govt. to evolve new policy on Chilka lake
The Orissa Government has decided to formulate a new policy on Chilka lake to protect the interests of the traditional fishermen and preserver the lake's ecology.The decision has been taken in the
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Huaihe river pollution control efforts yield results
Some 1.3 million people living in the lake area of Huaihe, China's fourth largest freshwater lake, have witnessed a resurgence of the local fishing industry resulting from the success of the ongoing
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Dianchi Lake gets big clean up
China has speeded up pollution control in the Dianchi Lake, the sixth largest of China's fresh water lakes in southwestern Yunnan Province, to welcome the World Horticulture Exposition, which takes
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Chilka birds now safe
Nearly 10000 poachers in the peripheral villages of Chilka lake(Orissa) have decided against killing birds. Around 2 million migratory birds visit Chilka lake every year and of them nearly 8 to 10
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Looming disaster for city
The apprehension that the Gulshan Lake in Bangladesh would once turn into a killing field for most of the species living in water has come true. So contaminated is the lake's water that fish are
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Prawn-fish tiff destroys Chilka
The Orissa government's plan to have a comprehensive legislation to control fishing activities inside Chilka lake, Asia's biggest brackish water lake, has already run into a rough weather following
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Hotel asked to close down for polluting Dal Lake
Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ordered the closure of centaur Lake View hotel forth-with for causing widespread pollution in the world-famous Dal Lake in Srinagar. The court, in its verdict, also
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Court orders closure of polluting hotels
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ordered the closure of Centaur Lake View Hotel for causing widespread pollution in the Dal Lake in Srinagar. The court also directed the Pollution Control Board
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Porur lake turns into a fish cemetery again
The old ghosts of Porur lake have returned to haunt it. Nearly nine months ago, there were reports about massive fish mortality in the lake. Now, the situation has gone from bad to worse, residents
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healthy milk: Consuming non-fat (skimmed) milk products can halve the risk of hypertension, claims a study by scientists at the University of Navarra, Spain, and Alvaro Alonso, a researcher in the
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Divine intervention
The Sikkim government has decided to scrap the Chu hydel project
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Tiny tots
Scientists from the Laboratory of Marine Hydrology, Montpellier University in France have discovered the smallest algal species in the Than Lake, near the Mediterranean Sea (Technical News, No