Greens raise alarm over Bangladeshi immigrants
Environmentalists and ecologists in Orissa have expressed concern over the influx of Bangladeshi immigrants into the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary, situated in coastal Orissa. Apprehensions are
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Green belt for Trans-Yamuna area
The trans-Yamuna area of Delhi, which has come to be identified with haphazard and unplanned growth, will soon have a green lung amid the slum clusters and congested markets. The Trans-Yamuna
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Common treatment facility for biomedical wastes in TN soon
A recent notice issued by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to private hospitals in the city, asking them to show cause why legal action should not be taken against them for not treating
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Simple aid to Gorillas pays off: babies in the bamboo
To the south and across the border in Congo, where the war is particularly intense, wildlife officials worry that the animals in Kahuzi-Biega National Park are being slaughtered in huge numbers:
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UP denies rise in poaching in reserves
Unnerved by the recent spurt in tiger deaths, the Uttar Pradesh government is going out of its way to deny wildlife poaching is big business here. The principal secretary (forests), Mr V.K. Dewan,
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Forest officials role suspected in U.P. poaching racket
The CBI appears all set to tighten the noose around forest officials in a bid to curb poaching in the reserve forests of Uttar Pradesh. A high-level CBI team arrived in Lucknow to begin a probe into
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Australia's Evans says environment won't cut surplus
Australian Treasury Secretary Ted Evans said on Monday future environmental protection measures would come at the expense of a taxpayer's levy, not from the budget surplus or direct government
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US Supreme Court lets stand EPA pollution rule
In a defeat for utilities and industry groups, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday let stand a federal rule requiring a number of states to reduce interstate drifting of air pollution, mainly from power
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Canberra shuts door to Californian grapes
Australia has put on hold a decision to open its market to Californian table grapes because of an increase in the incidence of Pierce's disease, a bacterial disease that kills vines, in the US
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Olive Ridleys return to nest
Olive Ridley sea turtles have turned up again for mass nesting this season, after staying away from the Rushikulya river mouth on the Orissa coast for two consecutive years.
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Disease spreads to Northern Ireland
The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease spread beyond mainland Britain, as sheep at a farm in Northern Ireland close to the border with the Republic of Ireland was confirmed as having developed the
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Bengal floods declared as national calamity
The Centre on Monday decalred floods in West Bengal as a national calamity and announced a special grant of Rs 75 crore to the State as an immediate step towards relief and restoration work in 11
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Army of ex-jawans battles to green Mussoorie
This is one war everybody agrees should have been fought years ago. A bunch of retired army jawans has been greening the Mussoorie hill-town on a war footing, and the results can be felt on the
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Wildlife Act remains a toothless tiger
The now-infamous Jodhpur incident involving 'star' poachers has, once again exposed the fact that while a Wildlife Act is in place, its implementation remains a distant dream. The Wildlife Protection
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Geoscientists' meet in Bengal
Noted Indian geoscientists will meet in Calcutta, to reassess the country's vast mineral resources and evolve strategies to locate economic and workable deposits. The scientists, will be meeting on
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600 Kruger Buffalo culled over TB
AT least 600 buffalo are being killed with poisoned darts in the Kruger National Park in South Africa in an attempt to control bovine tuberculosis, Afrikaans daily Beeld reports. Bovine TB is rife
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Waste not
Former President Suharto presented Agus Gunarto with Indonesia's most prestigious enviornmental award in June 1997 for developing the concept of a mini-sewage-treatment plant to serve small
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GE-Maize contaminates conventional crop
Greenpeace published new evidence which shows that engineered (GE) maize has cross pollinated an adjecent field of conventional maize in Germany. Farmers organisations and organic associations in
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Prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS less than 0.5 p.c.
The Union Health Ministry today denied newspapers reports that a recent survey had revealed that the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS among the general population has reached the level of one per cent in
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Private security firm to guard Nehru Zoo
The Andhra Pradesh Forest Department has handed over the security to a private firm from this month. The decision comes in the wake of killing of tigress Sakhi six months