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  • Rainmakers learn how to grow clouds

    A team of scientists has discovered a technique for growing clouds and controlling rainfall. They have made rain fall in areas stricken by drought -- and found ways of preventing cloudbursts over

  • And in Europe pollution adds to the misery

    High temperatures again hit swaths of Europe, with a pollution alert in France, fires in Germany and a dozen people dead in Turkey. In France, where summer vacationers crammed roads during what is

  • Polluter's award 'a worry'

    An environmental certificate awarded to the mainland's biggest construction contractor in Hong Kong could be revoked after it emerged the company has 33 convictions for breaking noise pollution laws.

  • Let rivers run deep

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his partner, John Cronin are a band of activists who are fighting to protect the waterways from being polluted and exploited in US. With the help of students from the

  • A mission for madame

    Christine Jean the winner of Goldman Environmental Price in 1992 has dedicated the prize money to Loire Vivante, the umbrella group she has headed since 1987. Its mission: blocking a gargantuan

  • Holy war "My Mother"

    Veer Bhadra Mishra, the mahant of the second largest temple in Varanasi is also the head of the civil-engineering department of the local university. Ever since he learned about the level of

  • Conserve energy to curb use of gensets

    CPCB : The Central Pollution Control Board is now focusing on ways to curb indiscriminate use of diesel generators - which contribute to the rising air pollution-- in the Capital. In a recent report,

  • Eco-Tourism can do wonders for glaciers

    A recent study by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), Lucknow, which highlights the recession of the Gangotri Glacier up from 10 metres a year -between 1935 and 1956 to over 27 metres in recent

  • Deluge toll hits 725 but it could have been worse'

    The official death toll from this summer's flooding in China was put at 725 yesterday, nearly double earlier reports. But state media said it would have been worse without repair work begun after

  • Thermax ties up with US company Ozone Processes

    The waste management division of Thermax has entered into a technical tie-up with Ozone Processes Inc of the US for providing electronic precipitators as solutions for industries to meet the

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