DDA strikes again
Target: the Yamuna riverbedWeapon: Zonal Development Plan
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GUJARAT: Turning a blind eye
Industrial estates are proliferating in Gujarat and state pollution control officials admit that waste disposal has not been a priority consideration for any of them. The Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat
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Blinded By Greed
Corruption in the management of the environment culminated in the blinding of young men by the Bihar police
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Soft quarries
If soil quarrying is a threat in the <i>terai</i>, mining poses huge hazards in the hills of Kumaon. Soapstone or talc and magnesite quarries have been taking over commons for over two decades, depriving local people of large tracts of the forestland, pasture, watersheds and farming land.<br>
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Screening smoke
Unexpected photography from aboard a space shuttle reveals patches of sulphate aerosols which keep some industrial pockets cooler
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The unpleasant green
There is no answer to the water hyacinth menace in Lake Victoria
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The verdict
What the judiciary needs to do is to put the heat on the regulatory and executive agencies of the country and improve the country's environmental governance systems
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Homicide by nuclides
A top secret Soviet nuclear complex contaminated its environs for 40 years, exposing thousands of people in the vicinity to radiation
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Toxic city
Given the Indians' poor economic and nutritional conditions, it is very important that we try to optimally prevent cancer than create conditions that lead to an epidemic and then demand expensive curative facilities
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Genesis of a crisis
WHEN Meghnaad, brother of King Ravana of Lanka, grievously injured Lakshman, brother of Lord Rama, Hanuman was sent to Gandhamardan Parvat to fetch the Mritasanjeevani Sudha, a life-saving herb.
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Faucets of the problem
Once known as the land of magic, India amazed the west with the trick of the bottomless pitcher. The magician would fill countless containers with water from just one jar. While the west has already achieved the goal of giving safe water to its masses
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MONEYMAKERS
ANTI-POLUTION GIZMO: Diesel engines will be spewing less nitric oxide fumes, promise KMH, a Doncaster-based business house, and Leeds University in the UK. They have jointly developed a steam-based
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Polluting unit in Rajasthan gets clean chit
Activists are fighting the Rajasthan Board for Prevention and Control of Pollution's sudden decision to clear the Pesticides India Ltd factory at Udaipur hint the reason behind the reversal is political
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Craning at the treetops
Washington's Wind River Experimental Forest will soon have an unusual inhabitant: a 90-metre-high steel-and-concrete monster. In a $1-million project, a giant crane will help scientists study life
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Kudremukh closure
SC directs KIOCL to shut mining operations
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Of biome blues
Burgeoning populations notwithstanding, humankind seems in danger of being wiped out. This is the inference one draws from <i>Our Stolen Future</i> , which holds chemical pollutants in the environment responsible for declining sperm counts, increasing bi
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Should not go waste, this
The proposed hazardous waste management project again" brings to light the Indian government's tendency to prevent free flow of crucial data regarding any industrial project, especially those funded by external agencies
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Who killed the birds?
Avian habitats face numerous threats There has been a lot of change in the physical environment of our country in the past five decades, notes eminent ornithologist Zafar Futehally. "In the
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Touching up water treatment
THE SWEDISH city of Malmo has carefully landscaped an area of about 10,000 ha, which functions as a natural stormwater treatment plant. In Malmo, on the southern Swedish coast, several projects