Reservoir row
a controversy is a raging over the efficacy of Alqueva dam in southern Portugal. While ecologists and villagers say Europe's biggest man-made reservoir would displace many people, the planners
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In bad taste
EPA s animal farm air quality improvement plan
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CHILE
Aquaculture has spelt success for the tiny island of Chilo6, off the coast of southern Chile. Such has been the boom that Chile ig now the world's second-largest salmon producer after Norway.
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SNIPPETS
• Pollution has killed several hundred fish in Tickenham Rhine river between Nailsea and Tickenham in Somerset in the UK, according to the country's Environment Agency. "The river is covered in
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Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Nepal, December 2013
<p><strong>Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Nepal, December 2013</strong></p> <p>Until a few months ago, Kathmandu Valley denizens would walk past the Bagmati River covering their noses. These days, the river has undergone a makeover of sorts and the credit goes to the ‘Bagmati Cleaning Campaign’, which completed its 30 weeks in December. Read more in this December 2013 edition of the<strong> Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Nepal, December 2013 </strong>published by the South Asia Environment Portal.</p>
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Chronology of research
Key developments in the quest to find the origin of AIDS
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Fortifying ecofront
Can existing constitutional safeguards adequately address the environmental concerns?
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Drug wars
EUROPEAN pharmaceutical companies, specially those based in Germany and are bell bent on blocking the of the low priced Spanish and wipme drugs in the European Union When Spain and
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Don t blame it on Jhum
A Bangladesh scientist sets the country s jhum record straight
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Illegal buildings trigger erosion, threaten Puri beach
people living in Sipasarubali near the coast in Puri, Orissa, are under threat. Waves have swept away parts of a beach in this popular tourist spot. While local residents are perturbed and visitors
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CHINA
The Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric project in China, once promoted as a major money-spinner for multinationals, is now turning out to be a liability for Beijing. The international financial
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Pakistan State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, October, 2013
The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) have begun working on a feasibility study for the construction of waste water treatment plants on the Ravi river at two sites at an amount of Rs 486 million. Read more in this October 2013 edition of the Monthly Pakistan State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
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Acid attack
Concerns about tackling the menace of acid rain grows in Japan
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Parched future
Panama is reeling under a water shortage crisis that can attain monumental proportions in future, if the largescale environmental degradation resulting from indiscriminate commercial logging is not
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Water distribution of Rajsamand Lake in Rajasthan cause of rift
there are conflicting claims over the distribution of water of the Rajsamand Lake by residents of Rajnagar township in Rajasthan and the farmers there. The conflict began after the Water
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Building against odds
Despite a host of reasons against its constuction, Pakistan decides to go ahead with building the Diamer dam
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Poisons of war
The deadly environmental effects of World War ii may stage a reappearance. At a late January conference on marine pollution in Brussels, Russian experts expressed apprehension that around 120,000
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Common nightmares
In India, out of a land area of 330 million ha, only cultivated. The remaining areas of forests, woodlands, grasslands, marshes, rivers, lakes and shorelines are common property resources (CPRs).
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Continental drift
Earthquakes occur due to inter-continental collision, and also due to intra-continental rupture of rock plates. About a dozen continental plates float on the Earth's semi liquid crust, just like the
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Environment unfriendly project dangled as poll sop in Gujarat
although Gujarat continues to be engulfed by the Sardar Sarovar dam controversy, yet the state government has embarked on an even more ambitious mega venture that throws up several environmental concerns