At a cost, Siberia pipeline to send oil to Pacific
Stretching from Lake Baikal to the Japan Sea, the first trans-Siberian oil pipeline is to run 4,150 kilometers - more than three times as long as the trans-Alaska pipeline. At a cost of $15.5
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Russian green safety body rejects pipeline plan
Russia's environmental safety body rejected a plan for a controversial crude oil pipeline that ecologists have said could threaten the world's biggest freshwater lake. The proposals for the pipeline
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Cold climates no bar to biogas production
Extremophile microbes in mud from a frozen Alaskan lake can be harnessed to make biogas.
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Ladies of the lake
ON NOVEMBER 7, residents of Vivekanandapally in Calcutta staved off yet another attempt by a group of real estate developers, which has been trying to fill up a shallow 0.134 hectare lake in the area
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A fine balance
The business of ecotourism is set to boom worldwide. Who will gain and who will lose?
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Willingness to pay for pleasure
If tourism revenues are generated by the quality of natural goods like a healthy tiger habitat or an excellent coral reef, then should tourists not be asked to pay an ecotax to conserve them? This
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Polluted lake
the Yediyur lake in Bangalore is very polluted, says a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (iisc), Bangalore. The ministry of environment and forests funded the one-year study
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Dwindling biodiversity
ireland's first ever biodiversity report has raised concerns among environmentalists. The report by the country's Environmental Protection Agency has identified modern agricultural practices,
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Ecological havoc in Aravali hills
Barely a few kilometers from Delhi are valleys with lakes. But they are not a sight of nature's bounty as one would imagine. Instead, they serve as a warning that the Aravalis, Delhi's only hope
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Threat to Chilka's dolphins
Increasing use of mechanised tourist boats in the Chilka lake is posing a major threat to the lagoon's tiny endangered dolphin population, according to the Wildlife Society of Orissa (WSO). As many
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Chilika prawn culture claims one more life
Chilika has erupted yet again with violence over prawn culture claiming one more life in the lake where bomb and gun culture continues to rule the roost. Hired goons from Puri attacked prawn
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Sea water farming
The entire food requirements of human race depend on plants irrigated by fresh water from rivers, lakes etc. One of the crying needs is to find an effective alternative for fresh water irrigation to
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Chilika birds fall prey to poaching
Chilika, the tuquoise-blue lagoon which straddles three districts of Orissa, is currently playing host to a huge congregation of migratory birds who have turned Asia's biggest brackish water lake
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High-tech coffee growers put Bahia on the map
Using extensive irrigation systems fed by deep wells and artificial lakes, farmers in Bahia (Brazil) have converted a once barren plateau into the world's most productive coffee growing region. Aided
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Bellandur villagers stage protest
"Our fields have been destroyed. Our water sources are contaminated. And yet we have not got justice from the Pollution Control Board(PCB)," said members of the Bellandur Lake Protection Committee
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EPA press release on Great Lakes chemical discharges
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) November 2 banned discharges of up to 700,000 pounds of toxic chemicals into the Great Lakes, a freshwater system on the U.S.-Canadian border. The EPA
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30,000 birds arrive at Harike wetland
Approximately 30,000 migratory birds have arrived at the Harike wetland lake that has been cleared of 1.25 lakh tonnes of water hyacinth by the Army. The bird count is almost thrice the estimated
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When the trout arrive, the amphibian exodus begins
The crystal mountain lakes of the Sierra Nevada, set among verdant meadows and snowy granite peaks, have become known throughout the world as a paradise for trout fishing.But this anglers' heaven is
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Army move to clean up lake
The Army initiative to clean up the Harike Lake in Ferozepur district of Punjab of water hyacinth, a major problem threatening its very existence, with the locals help, is a fine example of what
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Toxic plume endangers rural homes
An underground lake of toxic groundwater is spreading from a Australian Government-owned bomb factory into a housing estate near the Murray River town of Mulwala.The plume of water, about two