State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Climate Change
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SPREADING SMOKE
Strict US legislations are forcing cigarette companies to shift business to developing countries, where they are helped by lax laws and political reluctance to deal with the menace
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NET WORK
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UGANDA
Meteorologists have warned that the current drought in Uganda is likely to worsen in the coming months and called on the government to formulate a strategy to cushion the country against its
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Waiting for rain
from Virginia to Massachusetts, extending even as far west as Ohio, exceptionally dry weather conditions threaten eastern United States with drought. The National Weather Service has blamed the
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Mobile disruption
There is evidence that people using cellular telephones may develop strange diseases linked to memory loss
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Dams: under scrutiny
Dams in the <font class='UCASE'>us </font> are being dismantled to restore riverine ecosystems
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FLOOD HIT
Floods have inundated more than 10 villages and marooned thousands of people in eastern Bangladesh. The army has been called in to help out in the relief operations. Government officials fear that
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Deep in trouble
The ecology of Scotland may undergo a major transformation due to climatic changes, says a report
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Free from fluorides
A Jaipur based doctor claims to have developed a technique to clean fluoride contaminated water <br>
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DEPLETING GAS RESERVES
Pakistan natural gas reserves will be depleted by year 2010-2015 before new discoveries are made, petroleum minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan informed the National Assembly. "If consumption of