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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Meltdown
Latest NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) satellite maps reveal that most of the world's glaciers are shrinking. Rick Wessels of the US Geographical Survey, based in Arizona,
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Tatas canvass public support for prawn project
As the Tatas try to counter public opposition to their prawn farm, the environment ministry looks on passively.
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Only look for answers
I happened to attend, recently, a jan sunwai peoples court on water, convened by the National Federation of Indian Women. Women came from over 15 states to report on the state of their water.
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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>
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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
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Divine intervention
The Sikkim government has decided to scrap the Chu hydel project
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Spill over
Untreated domestic and industrial effluents is polluting Bangalore s Ballandur lake
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food Light too affects drinks Conventional methods to test the shelf life of products, say on retail displays, focus on heat and ignore the effect of light. Scientists exposed a soft drink containing saffron to different levels of light at rising temperatures. They found that the beverage grew lighter in colour as the intensity of the light increased, confirming that light can cause a
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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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A smog project
Researchers are studying a weather phenomenon that can trap pollutants in urban mountain valleys in the hope of creating better forecasting methods and lessening the impact of the pollution on
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bacco off the shelf: Thailand has taken a strong step against tobacco sales in the country. They ordered vendors in September to remove all cigarettes from display or risk a US $50,000 fine.