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>> Following recent deaths at mines in South Africa, the region's biggest mining union the National Union of Mineworkers has warned it will go on strike unless companies focus on workers' safety. The
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Play by the rules
Is the sponge iron industry listening?
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Strange but true
Existing clean up technology or treatment plants have failed to check pollution by our errant industries, especially the chlorine based units
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Sikkim s crusader
Sikkim s Pawan Kumar Chamling is felicitated for being the greenest chief minister of India
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Fuel cell buses for Delhi Going nowhere?
Grants have been approved to facilitate the use of fuel cell buses in the developing countries
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Lethal cocktails
Used as coolants and for insulation, polychlorinated biphenyls are highly toxic
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Power peril
In a complete reversal of its stand, the union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) has cleared the 73.5 mw Pooyamkutty hydroelectric project in Idukki district in Kerala, endangering about
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Curtain falls over aurora borealis
The aurora borealis is caused not by solar flares but by gigantic portions of the corona flowing out of the Sun
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Pollution: The crusade continues
US based environmental pollution crusader Erin Brockovich and her partner Ed Masry are at it again. The target of their attention this time is three oil firms who, they accuse, are emitting cancer causing poisons into the streets of Beverly Hills
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NORTH KOREA
Famine and mass starvation are looming large over the nation's 22 million inhabitants. Nearly 2.1 million children and half a million pregnant women across the country are at risk of
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Endangered!
THE endangered lion-tailed macaque has become the mascot of the environmental agitation against the Sharavathy Tail Race Hydroelectric Project in Karnataka. Concerned about its negative impact on
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General Electric sued
new york's attorney general filed a lawsuit against General Electric Company (ge) to put pressure on the industrial giant to dredge parts of the Hudson River that has been contaminated with
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Slum again
Trade unionist Datta Samant has helped 2,500 families of quarry workers in Bombay to get their settlement recognised as a slum. The 35-acre plot amid sand quarries at Powai lake was notified as a
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HONG KONG
A proposed power station on Lamma Island has met with opposition from environmentalists. Hong Kong Electric is planning to build two 600- mw generating units next to its existing 2,955- mw
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VENEZUELA
Pernon Indians and environmentalists are battling against mining companies and government officials who want to exploit the gold-rich deposits in Venezuela's Imataca rain forest reserve. The latter
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Jump in culling
despite protests from animal rights groups, Australia's annual cull of kangaroos shot up by more than a quarter this year. Citing substantial population increase, environment minister David Kemp
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NGO in dock over missing rehab funds
<font class="UCASE">an ngo </font> working with people affected by an urban transport project has been accused of irregularities.
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Dad s baby isn t fishy
Unique method to conserve endangered fish stocks
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Fuels for the future
Despite being clean, alternative fuels fail to become the first choice
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New material
Polymer or a semiconductor