Drugged drink
The water we drink may be contaminated with the drugs we excrete through our urine
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Light from an area of darkness
Strange but true. Health workers in Africa are successfully using antibiotics to slow down the spread of AIDS
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More on Chilka
AND NOW, it's the turn of the Orissa Maritime and Chilka Area Development Authority (OMCAD). OMCAD has stepped into the Chilka leasing controversy with an advertisement for leasing three plots around
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The real killers
The biggest cause of lead pollution may be incinerated waste, not vehicles
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Picturesque no more?
Kashmir's scenic beauty is going up in smoke, courtesy exhaust fumes from vehicles
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Living on the edge
They say the eye of the storm is calm. This is what I found when I visited the epicentre of war tensions in India, the city of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. This was a week when foreigners were
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Watered down
Aerosols could be wrecking havoc with the Earth s water cycle
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Row over a dump site
CONSTRUCTION unions in Australia have vowed to go on a strike if a proposed waste dump for the obsolete Niddrie Quarry in Melbourne goes ahead. About a thousand locals attended a protest meeting in a
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Melting to extinction
Biodiversity in the UK threatened due to climate changes
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Brazil
Porto Privamera Dam, which is under construction for the last 20 years, may soon be commissioned. The dam will have serious environmental and social implications as it is being commissioned
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Tracking the birds
For the first time documentation of trans-Himalayan migration was undertaken through satellite telemetry by Aligarh Muslim University, Wildlife Institute of India, US Geological survey and Bombay
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Calif. biomass plants see own crisis
In the midst of the state's worsening electricity crunch, Northern California's Honey Lake biomass power plant closed Tuesday due to a lack of wood waste to burn for fuel.The loss of the 30-megawatt
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U.S. House passes Great Lakes drilling ban
The House of Representatives passed a measure Thursday to stop oil and gas drilling under the Great Lakes, but Michigan Gov. John Engler's office said it will have no impact on his plans to allow
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Oil search in Great Lakes hit trouble
While US environmentalists are daily lobbying salvos against proposals to drill in Alaska's wildlife refuge, another controversy is looming over oil oil and gas drilling in the Great Lakes. In
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U.S. Lawmakers oppose natural gas pipeline project
- U.S. lawmakers urged federal regulators not to issue a permit for a controversial 664-mile natural gas pipeline that would stretch from the Great Lakes to New Jersey. n addition to citing
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Pataki objects to U.S. plan for drilling in finger lakes
Gov. George E. Pataki's administration came out today against a Bush administration proposal for oil and gas drilling in the Finger Lakes National Forest, after the governor came under fire for
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Power from wasted heat
Although only a few crude samples have been built, Yan Kucherov, director of R&D at the Salt Lake City company, Eneco Inc., and Peter L. Hagelstein, professor of electrical engineering at MIT and a
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Pipeline being laid thru wildlife sanctuary
A Pakistan government-owned oil and gas company, Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), is laying a gas pipeline through Drigh Lake Wildlife Sanctuary, which is not allowed under the Sindh Wildlife
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Big power crisis stares at capital
Delhi may face a severe power crisis in case of a burst in the artificial lake in Tibet and triggering of flash floods in Himachal Pradesh as the state is the sole power supplier to the Northern
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The Bush administration pushes dirty coal plants
Why was the Lake Michigan coastal city of Manistee, population 6,600, targeted for a $700 million, 425-megawatt, coal-powered electric power plant, the largest proposed in Michigan in two decades?