Crispin Tickell
Chairperson of the Climate Institute, Washington, DC " This is a need for tough measures to check artifically induced climate change" • The biggest emitters must make the biggest
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Permanent Job
Sometimes, even the poor get a chance to cheat
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Solution: good science
There are no political boundaries for animals, but officials concerned fail to see the point
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The third wind
The new challenges before Japan require leadership from not just the government and the corporate sector but also the civil society
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JFM in jeopardy
A proposal to regularise encroachments in forests creates a flutter
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AIDS crisis
AIDS has reached crisis point in Thailand, prompting the government to increase its HIV-prevention budget by L5 million. An NGO study predicts that by 2000, 2.4 million Thais -- out of 53 million --
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Bio treaty ratification blocked
The Clinton government is impatient as the Senate continues blocking the ratification of the Biodiversity Treaty. The treaty, a product of the 1992 Earth Summit, aims at protecting all plant and
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'Final solution' for kangaroos
Australia's burgeoning kangaroo population seems in for a hard time. Already unpopular with farmers (Down To Earth, September 15, 1995), the country's national symbol may end up soon as a major
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MALAYSIA
A scrapyard in the southern Johor state of Malaysia was recently burnt by angry villagers. The villagers alleged that government officials had failed to take any action against Sun Enterprise, the
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Damning disclosure
a proposal to dam the Tigris river in Turkey could pose a serious threat to the environment and for human health. This warning was given in an environmental impact assessment commissioned by
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Peru
Going Green Pays The us has agreed to cancel a portion of Peruvian debt following the government's commitment to conserve and maintain its biodiversity and forest areas. The visiting
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Increasing forest cover
That s what a new government project aims to do <br>
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Stir over project site
Steel plant plan opposed by villagers facing ouster
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Rock rap: companies, HP face the music
SC comes down heavily on corporates and HP government, slapping a Rs 5 crore fine for defacing rocks in Rohtang Pass
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US launches global initiative to fight illegal wildlife trade
the us has officially launched a global initiative to fight illegal wildlife trade. The Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking (cawt) comes despite the fact that there are two international
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Update
Nandigram in West Bengal continues to witness sporadic outbreaks of violence between anti- and pro-land acquisition forces. On April 29, one person was killed and two others injured in clashes
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A problem with pollen
Global warming could worsen allergies, says a new study
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Tata Energy Research Institute In service of polluters
The Swedish experts have identified traces of over 40 substances in diesel exhaust that are listed by the <font class='UCASE'>epa</font> as hazardous air pollutants and by the California Air Resources Board as toxic air contaminants.
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Setting standards
A SMALL group of Pueblo Indians, living just south of Albuquerque, the largest city in New Mexico, may force city officials to spend a whopping US $250 million to clean up the Rio Grande, so they
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MONTSERRAT
A sleeping giant is about to come to life at the British colony of Montserrat in Eastern Caribbean. Eruptions and emissions of ash from a volcano dormant for centuries have sent almost 1,000 people