Orissa government remains unconcerned
The Chilika Development Authority formed in January this year is yet to formulate management plans for the wetland.
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Watery solution
Israel will run out of drinking water in three years unless the government moves fast to eliminate massive mismanagement of the resource. Israel uses almost 80 per cent of the resources in the area.
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Pox Americana
Is the West a victim of its own past?
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Budding brains
Children from all over India recently came together bursting with ideas on how to build a cleaner country
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On the rocks
hard rock mining has resulted in metal contamination and sedimentation of waterways, posing serious health and environmental risks. It has been precipitated by relaxation of laws and regulations
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Tata's secret project
The Tatas' attempts to enter the prawn market raises a lot of speculation regarding the extent of their interest in the environmentally touchy lake.
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Controversial Geothermal project gets go ahead
The Bush administration has approved development of a controversial geothermal power project in California's Modoc National Forest near a lake considered sacred by several Native American tribes. The
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City scientists achieve major breakthrough
In a breakthrough, scientists at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Salt Lake, made their machine a super-efficient shooter of atomic particles.
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Pollution turns into power
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a small Salt Lake City company announced on November 26 that they developed technology that can efficiently and inexpensively transform
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NCTPS discharging untreated effluents
panel: An expert committee that went into the environmental impact on Kattupalli Island, Pulicat Lake and the Buckingham Canal due to the construction of the North Chennai Thermal Power
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Govt admits leak from Rajasthan nuclear plant
The Government yesterday admitted for the first time that heavy water with radioactive tritium above limits set by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board was released into the Rana Pratap Sagar Lake from
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US Senate bans Great Lakes energy drilling for 2 yrs
The US Senate voted on Tuesday to ban oil and natural gas drilling in the Great Lakes, underscoring the wave of political sentiment to protect environmentally sensitive areas from energy exploration.
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Vegetable oil for running diesel engine
Vegetable oil is not only required for cooking it could now also be used to run diesel engine. Scientists at the Salt Lake based institute of Engineering and Management have invented an alternative
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Rwandan lake bubbling with potential energy
The bottom waters of Lake Kivu in North West Rwanda contain carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and methane gases from bacterial and volcanic activity. Engineers are now planning to pipe the methane to
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Old garbage for new power at Salt Lake
The Salt Lake Municipality and the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Authority will soon launch a project for power generation from garbage. This joint venture project is one of the
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Regulating living environment for public safety
it is unusual for the powerful real estate lobbies to be brought to their knees in India. But such a thing happened in Gujarat in 2002. The high court was hearing a petition on saving the lakes of
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The enterprise
Keeping both the environment and economy afloat
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Lifeline
Without water, cities in California have fared disastrously
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Dangerously beautiful
Lake Nyos in western Cameroon is waiting to spill carbon dioxide that would choke entire communities along its shores. A similar disaster asphyxiated hundreds of cattle and killed over 1,700 people
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Contaminated water claims three lives
Three people lost their lives and several others were hospitalised when they reportedly consumed contaminated lake water at Madhapuram in Tamil