Conserving snow leapord
Nepal's snow leopard population has been estimated at between 300 to 500. Their potential habitat ranges covers an areas of as much as 30,000 sq km and have been recorded between the altitude of
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11 hours of havoc and destruction
Typhoon York wreaked havoc at sea and on land yesterday day as hurricane-force winds and floods lashed the territory. A Hong Kong Government Flying Service helicopter was sent out at 11.30am to
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Fast-spreading dysentery alerts health authorities as Chusok nears
South Korean Health authorities yesterday put themselves on special alert for dysentery cases, with Chusok, one of the nation's most important holidays, threatening to speed up its already rapid
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Australia to set ballast water rules for ships
Australia will unilaterally implement strict new rules to require foreign vessels to manage ballast water so as not to introduce exotic pests into its waters, Federal Agriculture Minister Warren
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Global gene-food talks kickstart in Vienna
Global negotiations have kicked off in Vienna to try to regulate the multi-billion-dollar trade in genetically altered foods and crops that can resist disease or produce higher
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Dioxin unlikely to harm Belgian health - scientists
Belgian scientists have played down the long-term health effects of cancer-causing dioxins that were found in May to have entered the food chain through contaminated animal feed. "It is very unlikely
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Breast cancer fight gets a new weapon
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug that promises to improve breast-cancer patients' chances of survival. The drug, Ellence, is for treatment of
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Salinity intrusion on the rise in city
The salinity intrusion in Chennai is on the rise. While the sea water has moved towards inland in North Chennai to the extent of 13 km, its shift in the sourthern coastal aquifer is in the range of
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Human waste may be used for space travel
Future spacecraft could find in an alternative energy supply in the crew's human waste, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. US space agency Nasa is sponsoring a joint project to turn human
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Tight budgets limit access to breakthrough surgery
Surgeons yesterday warned that rationing at the Royal Melbourne Hospital would mean patients eligible for a new type of vascular surgery would have to undergo an older, cheaper process associated
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Greatest threats to state environmental health
With polluted waterways, hazy skies and an impressive patchwork of Superfund sites from which to choose, it would seem a daunting task to rank the environmental threats facing Trenton, U.S. But that
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PVWC tests reveal lead in drinking water
After tests revealed the presence of lead in drinking water, the Passaic Valley Water Commission is preparing to perform a second round of sampling, officials said. Water taken from homes in Clifton,
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DEP probes dredging of stream at resort
Workers at the Mountain Creek resort in Vernon, U.S. allegedly dredged and dumped stone into a stream last week without obtaining approval from state officials, who are probing the matter.
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Foodborne diseases on the rise
Foodborne disease may be responsible for 5,000 deaths, 325,000 hospitalisations and 76 million cases of gastrointenstinal illness each year in the US, according to a report released by officials from
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Arnold bags anti-smoking ad account
Arnold Communications, a Boston-based advertising agency, has been awarded the American Legacy Foundation's national anti-smoking advertising account, estimated at $150 millions to $225 millions,
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Manhattan Park battles mosquitoes
Manhattan's Central Park was sprayed with insecticide on Monday in New York City's battle to kill mosquitoes after a rare outbreak of St. Louis Encephalitis that claimed three
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Floyd drops 19 inches of rain, but damage is less than feared
The heart of Hurricane Floyd raked across the mainland at Cape Fear Thursday morning, uprooting beach houses and leaving widespread floods as it set a rapid but steadily weakening
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Kisan Sangh draws plan to help farmers save their cattle
The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) has chalked out a major programme to help the cattle-breeders of drought-affected Saurashtra and KUtch by adopting more than 100,000 milch animals. The highly
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Soviety-era laboratory bugs threaten American farming
The threat of an attack on US soil from biological warfare has increased in recent years as the intelligence community has discovered organisms grown in foreign laboratoreies aimed at disrupting
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Meghalaya furore over timber ban
Meghalaya Speaker E K Mawlong and two Cabinet ministers of the B B Lyngdoh government were heckled by an irate crowd at an election rally in Nongstoin in West Khasi Hills district when they failed