Plan to rescue 5 major lakes in Mysore
Five major man-made lakes of Mysore City will soon be cleaned out and beautified and rescued by the Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation which is getting a Rs 9 crore loan
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Sewage in Mysore lake kills 40 migratory birds in 5 days
The death of 40 birds, including that of migratory birds Shoveller and Gargany, over the past five days at Lingambudi lake in Mysore, has become a cause of grave concern among bird lovers here.
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8,000 Lake Erie water birds dead of botulism, experts say
A puzzling outbreak of botulism along Lake Erie (US) has killed about 8,000 water birds, including perhaps a thousand common loons, state environmental officials said today.Crews from the State
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Toxic metals can cause serious harm
Scientists : Copper, chromium, ferric, nickel and lead contaminating the famous lake of Nainital in Uttaranchal can cause serious haelth hazards to local population and tourists, scientists have
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Seeping chemicals a nightmare for Lake Town residents
Chemicals seeping from a closed factory is contaminating a pond near Tank No.4 on Jessore Road. Panic grips Lake Town Residents as the Smelling chemicals seep into the waterbody. A cow and a crane
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Study identifies 24 potentially dangerous glacial lakes in Bhutan
While it was not possible to prevent the floods caused by glacial lake outbrust in 1994 , which caused massive damages to the Punaka Valley, Bhutan warning signals could have been sent, according to
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Canadian Government discovers widely-used road salts are toxic to the environment
The Canadian Government has released findings that five million tonnes of road salts used annually pose a risk to plants, animals, birds, fish, lake and stream ecosystems and groundwater.The results
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Greens protest Naidu's lake project
Environmental activists are up in arms against Mr N Chandrababu Naidu's pet tourism project around the Hussainsagar Lake in the heart of the city and have threatened to move the court to stop the
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Foreign experts to tame Cameroon's killer lakes
A team of 10 scientists and engineers from the United States, France and Japan is to put in place devices to siphon toxic gases from two Cameroon lakes which in the past have killed almost 1,800
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Greens fear Ring Road plan will choke Hebbaln Lake
Even as the newly restored Hebbal lake in Bangalore is awaiting the first monsoon rains to fill it up, the Bangalore Development Authority's proposal to build a grade separator around it and a
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Kenya's Flamingos may be a casualty of environmental neglect
About 1 million flamingos live on this otherwise nearly dead lake in the Great Rift Valley. They fringe its rocky shoreline like a necklace and congregate in its shallow bay,s forming vast carpets
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Mountains disappear, rivers turn into lakes
The most powerful earthquake in Taiwan's history has fundamentally reshaped the island's landscape, making whole mountains disappear and tranforming rivers into lakes. Chiufeng twin peaks, two
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Scientists to detoxify Cameroonian killer lakes
An international team of scientists, technicians and engineers has begun work to detoxify two Cameroonian lakes, one of which killed over 1,700 people in 1986.The team has arrived in the West African
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Chilka fishermen threaten to demolish illegal bheris
The Chilka Matsyajibi Mahasangh, a fishermen's organisation of the Chilka area, today served a 24-hour ultimatum on the Orissa government to impose a ban on prawn cultivation in and around the lake
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Orissa law to curb prawn farming soon
Orissa chief minister Giridhar Gamang today said his government would enact a stringent law to curb prawn farming in Chilka lake. Gamang, who was under fire from the Opposition for the May 29 police
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Scientists start work on Cameroon's killer lakes
Scientists from the United States, Japan, France and Cameroon have begun work on siphoning toxic gas, which killed nearly 1,800 people in 1986, from volcanic lakes in western Cameroon."This is only
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Polluted lake affects hospital services
The 60-acre Madavara lake, on the City's outskirts has stridently announced sits highly polluted state by drastically affecting and almost closing down the medical services offered to thousands of
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China spends big money saving Plateau Lake from pollution
The Chinese Government has spend 3.5 billion yuan and will invest some eight billion more in the next decade to clean up a seriously polluted lake in the southwestern province of Yunnan. A report
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Frequent fliers exit the Pong dam transit lounge
Dying rivulets are not the only signs of worsening conditions in this picturesque area. The birds are also fast disappearing. Water levels at the Pong Dam lake-north India's largest habitat for
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Kaziranga may remain closed this year
The Kaziranga National Park home to the one-horned rhino, may not be opened to all this year. The catastrophic flood, which turned the 433 sq km game park into the lake formation, destroying every