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Relocating beaches
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
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Criminal waste
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
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INDIA
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
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IN FOCUS
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
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Damned squabbles
Waves of criticism against the newly proposed Kalpsar project wash away the Gujarat government's ambitious claims
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CHILE
The National Environ mental Commission of Chile recently gave its final approval for the construction of a second 570-mw dam on the Bio Bio river despite stringent criticism from ecologists and
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New angle on recycling
Wastefrom animal farms can now be recycled into fish food
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CAMBODIA
Although wild crocodiles are considered endangered, the prospects for growth in the crocodile farming business really looks good in Siem Reap, Cambodia - up to 1,350 per cent, Nao Thuok, who is
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Storehouse of water
although the importance of Himalaya-Karakoram as the largest storehouse of fresh water in the lower latitudes, and the important role of their snow and ice in maintaining the flows of the Indus,
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Frozen details
Indian scientists gear up for a new round of experiments in Antarctica
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Tunnel vision
Indore banks solely on rainwater harvesting, lands in a hole
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Hg s a plague
Mercury hits Indian healthcare
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Saving steps
the Aral Sea, formerly the world's fourth-largest inland sea with an area of 65,000 sq km may not die after all ( Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 12). Kazakh fisherfolk believe that a 16-km-long
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Backs to the wall
Kerala's backwaters are one of its most prized possessions. But they are fighting for survival today, with reclamation for the purposes of development and commerce increasingly choking them off
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Kuttanad: a case in point
Kuttanad in Malayalam means 'small town'. But the ecological devastation which human hands have wrought here is in no way small or insignificant
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In crisis
The desert city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan is an excellent example of how Thoughtless processes of modernisation and urbanisation have destroyed an extraordinary water management system
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Inhumanly polluted
Away from human interference, the virgin Arctic islands are, ironically, more polluted than the distant industrialised settlements. And the reason is a filthy secret
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Concrete bungle
Civic body s conservation plan may imperil Kolkata s ponds
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God's own country
This is a true story of the beautiful state of Kerala, of its famed backwaters and wetlands, of its rain swept Western Ghats. It also speaks of the grime beneath the hype of a state which is home to "a generation on crutches", and of the environmental h