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The real killers
The biggest cause of lead pollution may be incinerated waste, not vehicles
The biggest cause of lead pollution may be incinerated waste, not vehicles
Kashmir's scenic beauty is going up in smoke, courtesy exhaust fumes from vehicles
Aerosols could be wrecking havoc with the Earth s water cycle
Biodiversity in the UK threatened due to climate changes
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
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
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
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
The Municipal Corporation of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has been awarded the green city award by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO), a public sector company. The award was given to
researchers say that sand from the beaches of the northeastern us and Canada have been making its way to Bermuda. They believe that this has been due to the curious appetites of migratory
Reduced to filthy, foul smelling cesspools, with mosquito larvae arawing their lazy, intricate patterns on the green surfaces, the same takes and tanks in urban areas draw a passerby's game is when purple hyacinths bloom and disguise their filth. O
After a journey of 10 months and about 700 million km, the US spacecraft Mars Global Surveyor successfully eased into a wide orbit of Mars about 300 km over the north pole of the planet in the early
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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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
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