Why Alang?
Good tides and weak enforcement favour the shipbreaking industry
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Portents
Death, disease and indifference of the officials haunt Alang
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Green promises
Political parties pay lip service to environmental issues in their election manifestos
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False, misguided steps
whereby farmers are led into dangerous territories
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Fatal Flavour?
Artificial sweeteners: the new threat to your health
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A real cool dude!
A new climate friendly and non CFC technology proposed for refrigerators may broaden the prospect of North South cooperation regarding chlorofluorocarbon phase out
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Miseries galore
It is not just the land that has turned barren in Bichhri - the cattle have also been badly hit. Initially, when effluents flowed through the village, residents were alarmed to see the skin peel
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In which the count fell
A recent study establishes that sperm count has fallen drastically since the 1930s in the US and Europe
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When a river weeps...
Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying out for attention
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Will the Aral Sea ever come back?
"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of the world"s fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea, tell a graphic tale of the human toll caused by am of the w
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Rape of the rock
The heavenly idyll of a carefree people, happy to welcome tourists, gay in their carnival, peaceloving and gastronomic, is being devastated due to the avarice of miners
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The original Mus
Researchers zero in on the Indian subcontinent as the possible birthplace of that most evasive of pesky mammals the house mouse
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Freedom on the freeway
A people's movement in northern California has weeded out the use of pesticide on highways
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Central Pollution Control Board
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), statutory organisation, was constituted in September, 1974 under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. Further, CPCB was entrusted with the powers and functions under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981.
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Central Arid Zone Research Institute
The arid zone of India covers about 12% of the country's geographical area and occupies over 31.7 m ha of hot desert and about 7 m ha is under cold desert. The local inhabitants have evolved suitable landuse and management systems of farming, pastoralism and animal husbandry; of late, these local survival systems have become inadequate to fulfill the ever increasing needs.
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Site Guide
<h3>What's inside</h3> News, Feature articles, Opinions, Books, Reports & documents, Directories of government institutions, Audio-video files, Photos & much more... <h3>In-depth</h3> Make sense of the complex environment-development debate. Each week, a topic in focus... <h3>Topic tree</h3> Browse content using a comprehensive thesaurus of environmental keywords <h3>Search</h3>
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Site Guide
<h3>What's inside</h3><p>News, Feature articles, Opinions, Books, Reports & documents, Directories of government institutions, Audio-video files, Photos & much more...</p><h3>In-depth</h3><p>Make sense of the complex<br /> environment-development debate. Each week, a topic in focus...</p><h3>Topic tree</h3><p>Browse content using a comprehensive thesaurus of environmental keywords</p>
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Ecology and livelihoods closely linked
<p>I represent the Forum for Better Visakha (FBV) based at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. We have been active for quite sometime in highlighting the meaning of "development" as perceived by the local communities. I have tried to document the relevant concerns in my article on Sompeta in Economic and Political Weekly.
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Global development finance 2009: charting a global recovery
Over the past two years, the world has seen turmoil in a relatively small segment of the U.S. credit markets morph into a severe global economic and financial crisis.
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The World Bank sees money in emissions trading
<b><font class='UCASE'>Daphne Wysham</font></b> is the co author of a recent report, <i>The World Bank and the G 7: Changing the Earth s Climate for Business</i> . She is also the coordinator of the sustainable energy and economy network, a project of