The Bulldozer in the Countryside
A book by Adam Rome
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The challenge of the balance: environmental economics in India - proceedings of the national environment and economic meeting
The number of institutions trying to integrate environmental concerns with economics is still small in India, especially given the size of the country and the diversity of its environmental problems and challenges, but a small beginning has already been made. This volume presents the proceedings of the national environment and economics meeting held in January 1994, in New Delhi.
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Denmark's Vestas To Sign Deal With Kenyan Wind Firm
Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP), a firm planning to build a 300 MW windfarm in Kenya, said on Tuesday it had signed an exclusivity deal with Denmark's Vestas and would be signing a final agreement in October. LTWP intends to erect at least 353 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 850 KW, which will be procured from the world's biggest maker of wind turbines, Vestas Wind Systems A/S.
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Phase out at fever pitch
Trade a new thermometer for an old one. This is the message that a bill approved by the US senate seeks to give. While it bans mercury thermometers, it has provided US $20 million for the exchange
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Resource exploitation, pollution on in ECAs
Wildlife, marine life, birds and other species in the areas declared ecologically critical remain threatened because of indiscriminate exploitation and pollution of natural resources. People are still unaware of restriction on movement and other prohibitions in the eight critical areas such as Cox's Bazar-Teknaf beach, Sonadia Island, St Martins Island, Hakaluki Haor, Tanguar Haor, Marjaat Baor, Gulshan-Baridhara Lake and a large portion of Sundarban.
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EPD plan to monitor sources of water
In view of the deteriorating water situation in the province, the Environment Protection Department (EPD) announced a scheme to monitor various types of surface water sources in Punjab including rivers, lakes, canals and wetlands here on Monday. The scheme will include a profiling of the water bodies, an estimation of various loads of pollution (organic and inorganic) being discharged in surface water bodies, a public information and awareness drive for the conservation of water and reduction of pollution, as well as greater collaboration between the various government bodies involved.
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The global water situation
Water is not distributed evenly over the globe. Fewer than 10 countries possess 60% of the world's available fresh water supply: Brazil, Russia, China, Canada, Indonesia, U.S., India, Columbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, local variations within countries can be highly significant. Less than 3% of the world's water is fresh - the rest is seawater and undrinkable.
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China fights pollution with 20m fish that eat up algae
Shanghai: Authorities in eastern China have said they will release 20 million algae-eating fish into one of the nation
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Pune Municipal Corporation team cleans up Mula river
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has intensified its drive to clean the Mula river of the rapidly proliferating water hyacinth. On Monday, malaria surveillance inspector Govind Satpute and his team were spotted cleaning the Mula river, which is covered hyacinth, after successfully cleaning Pashan lake. Satpute, who has been undertaking this activity for the last eight years, said removin
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World's first green party takes root
THE ISLAND state of Tasmania, with its relative abundance of natural resources and wild countryside, is the home of the world's first Green party, the United Tasmania Group (UTG), which elbowed its
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Taiwan earthquake
A massive earthquake rocks Taiwan
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Heartache tonight
nearly 50 per cent of Calcutta's population may risk developing cardio-vascular diseases due to high carbonate content in drinking water, says a study. A B Dasgupta, member of the West Bengal
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Floating islands of the world
Floating islands have fascinated us since ancient times
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Climate change drives Wildfires
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South Asia Country profiles
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Plastic in our Oceans
Every minute, one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into our oceans. About 8 million metric tons of plastic are thrown into the ocean annually. Of those, 236,000 tons are microplastics. Tiny pieces
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A robot for the deep
Scientists in the US have developed a device that would help search toxic wastes at seabed
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Scrutinising disasters
Flood Studies in India brings to fore several aspects of this natural disaster that are not yet conventional wisdom in policy circles. The book looks at floods from a variety of expertise areas, such
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Fishing cooperative 'dies' of too much prosperity
So successful was the Siandi experiment in cooperative fishing and prawn culture, vested interests just would not allow it to continue
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Kamal Nath buys time on Chilika
Environment minister Kamal Nath has been caught in the firing line on the Chilika Aquatic Farms project. His order for an environmental impact assessment to be prepared is merely a move to delay taking a decision.