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C.R.'s salt is safe : Despite recent test results from the National Standards Office (ONNUM) showing alarming levels of lead and cadmium in most salt brands sold in Costa Rica. Health Minister
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LIFE Nature
94 new projects selected for 1999 : The European Commission has selected 94 nature conservation projects to receive a total of euro 64,8 million funding under the LIFE-Nature programme in 1999. This
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Change your lifestyle to prevent heartburn
Study : Most heartburn sufferers prefer to pop-over the country pills rather than figure out why they get that familiar burning sensation and make the lifestyle changes needed to prevent it,
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WB, IDA lending to India declines
Under pressure from the US and its allies ovoer the Pokhran nuclear tests, World Bank lending to India registered a massive decline from $1.068 million in 1998 to $400million for the fiscal 1999,
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Successful liver transplant at Apollo
In a bath-breaking operation, a liver was specially flown in from Chennai and transplanted successfullly by a team of doctors at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in the Capital
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Pakistan contributing to ecological disorder
experts : While predicting a major ecological disaster in Pakistan within the next decade, environmentalists and forests experts have said that a beginning has already been made with merciless
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Belgium is hit by new food scare
Belgium farmers were on Fridya facing a new crisis following reports that toxins up to 50 times the permitted level had been found at pig farms across the country. High levels of polychlorinated
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Minister warns of action against SIV Industries
The Tamil Nadu Minsiter for Forests and Environment,Mr. Pongalur N. Palanisamy, at a meeting organised by the Coimbatore Chapter of the CII on Friday, said that aquatic life in the Bhavani River
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Smokers' class action begins
In the first stage of a landmark class action against Australia's major tobacco companies, Philip Morris, W.D. & H.O. Wills and Rothmans yesterday asked Justice Murray Wilcox to strike out the
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Death toll rises as floods, drought ravage Yunnan
Floods killed 31 people in the southwest of China and disrupted power supplies and phone services, state media reported. Loss of life in Yunnan province took the official death toll from this year's
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India, Netherlands pact in reducing greenhouse gases
India and Netherlands have signed a letter of intent for undertaking a project to reduce greenhouse gases
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U.P. directed to check pan masala units
The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council today directed the State Government to order checking of pan masala units to ensure that synthetic "kaththa", an ingredient harmful for health, was not used in
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Alaska wildfires sear a million acres
Forest fires have seared more than 1million acres (400,000 hectares) across Alaska so far this summer, although cool rains have slowed the blazes in parts of the state's vast interior, officials
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Panel proposes revisions to permissible noise levels
Following the enforcement of new environmental standards aimed at curbing noise pollution in April, Japan's Environment Agency panel unveiled a proposal Monday that would revise permissible levels.
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Study links gays, eating disorders
Gay men are at a higher risk of developing eating disorders than heterosexual men, a Deakin University study has found. But for lesbians, sexual orientation may protect them from
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Nine killed in landslide
Rains continued to lash parts of Gujarat, Assam and Bihar as the death toll in house collapses, lanslides and flooding of rivers across the country rose to 273 today. In Guwahati, at least nine
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Bad Breath returns with smoking ban
Bad breath in the local trains? Nothing new, the upstarts would mutter.Hold it just there, This bad breath is thanks to the railway ministry stubbing out cigarettes in railway stations (effective
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Oil spills threaten marine sanctuary
Ominous, black layers of oil can be seen everywhere on the fringes of the island below the top layer of the sand. The feet turn black after a walk on the beach. And the strong smell akin to kerosene
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Ajmer land project selected for Indira Prize
In recognition of an exceptional achievement made in land conservation the Dumada-Ajaisar barren land development project in Ajmer district has been selected for the prestigious Indira Priyadarshini
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A pollution-free Ganga is his dream
It is perhaps for the first time that an international media organisation has prepared a list of top environmental activists on a global basis. "In honouring me, they reminded the world community