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Cricket emission levels and smokescreens

A new study shows it is not just English cricketers who are manipulatin4data for their benefit - the ministry of environment, too, is playing a similar game.
- 14/03/1993
- WHO
Paying the price

High costs discourage the use of low sulphur fuels
- 30/07/2000
- Down To Earth
What it takes

Fuel economy isn"t just good economics VERY crudely, the less fuel the vehicle consumes, the less it emits. Regulators across the world look at this problem in two waysÀ one, they directly
- 14/02/2007
- - Naga
Learning to live with noise pollution

Nerve-jarring noise is an inextricable part of urban lives. Most of us seem to accept the high decibels of vehicular traffic, deafening car horns, and the bedlam wrought by loudspeakers without
- 14/05/2007
Dangers of letting cars dictate city design

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Freewheel

Who wants to buy a scooter that"s priced as high as a limousine? The auto industry can choose to make costly changes to the conventional technology to make it clean. And tinkering with engines has a price. A cheaper option may lie in leapfrogging to alt
- 30/01/2002
- - CNG
  - Vehicles
Clear concepts, unclear courses

THE National Front (NF)the opposition alliance (between the JanataDal (it)) and some regional parties)led by V P Singhcame to power atthe Centre in 1989. The JD'S environmental concernsone of themost
- 14/05/1996
The price of power

As political parties, environmentalist banner-holders and indigenous industries cry themselves hoarse over the entry of the Cogentrix facility, moot ecological issues seem to take a backseat
- 29/11/1995
- Down To Earth