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  • Kaka Nagar get sewage-laced water

    Some houses in Kaka Nagar, (Delhi) home to top bureaucrats of the country, got water supply mixed with sewage morning. The affected residents complained that the water had a stench and dirty colour.

  • Advisers tell Bush climate plan is useless

    George Bush's strategy on global warming suffered a setback yesterday when a panel of scientists convened at the request of the White House condemned it as lacking vision, and wasting time and money

  • Global warming driving pika losses

    The pika - a small mammal that makes its home on the talus slopes of western mountains in North America - may be one of the first animals to fall victim to global warming, new research suggests. A

  • Curbing carbon dioxide

    The pressure on President George W.Bush to abandon his irresponsibly passive approach to global warming was ratcheted up last week. The attorneys general of seven north-eastern states announced their

  • Impure water: violators go scott free

    Bottled water in the Andhra Pradesh state must be the 'purest' because not a single case has ended up in conviction though the authorities have launched prosecution against more than 90 percent of

    • 23/02/2003

  • Seven states sue Bush for global warming

    Seven states in the US have filed a joint lawsuit against the Bush administration for its alleged neglect in regulating carbon dioxide emissions, the states said in a statement. "While individual

  • Gippsland site tops toxic dump list

    The Australian State Government appears to have abandoned its search for a new hazardous waste site near Melbourne and is to embark on a series of detailed studies of the environmentally sensitive

    • 17/02/2003

  • Global warming endangers Amazon

    warming as levels of carbon dioxide increased in the atmosphere. "This is a simplified picture," Tom Wigley of the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research told the AAAS. "If we warm the world

  • Firms fail to count cost of global warming

    Most of the world's top 500 companies are failing to take action to deal with the risks of global warming, according to research on the corporate impact of climate change. Some companies in the heavy

  • Hot potato

    At the beginning of 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released, as the main result of its massive Third Assessment Review, a set of figures that have become the most-cities

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