Govt, NGOs oblivious of rising pollution
Increasing air pollution in the Peshawar city, Pakistan is adversely affecting the lifestyle of people as more and more people are complaining to have contracted respiratory and hearing problems.
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Protests against Indian leather
Animal rights activists in Germany are up in arms against what they call the inhuman treatment of animals in India that are slaughtered for the use of their skin in the lather industry.
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97,000 acres protected for new national park
The nation's newest national park drew closer to reality, as the Nature Conservancy signed an agreement to buy the Baca Ranch, an unbroken stretch of 97,000 acres in Colorado. The announcement
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Maharashtra to get Rs. 536-crore World Bank aid
Maharashtra will receive Rs. 536-crore World Bank funding in the next fiscal year for fiscal reforms programme, Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh, Chief Minister, has said. He said this was out of Rs. 1,398
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Karnataka to pay relief for crop loss
The Agriculture Minister, T.B. Jayachandra, today said the Government was thinking of paying Rs. 5 crore as compensation for crop lost owing to hailstorm during the recent off season rains in seven
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Timber mafia moves ahead with 'recycled vehicles'
As the High Court blinks, the timber mafia has a field day. Exploiting legal loopholes over release of confiscated vehicles for carrying illegal timber, forest mafia continue with their nefarious
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SOS: We must save the wilds
The Joint Forest Management has come a long way since its inception during the British era. The old style practice of colonial forestry degraded our forest resources. Following the adaptation of the
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European Court returns condemning judgment on UK and Italy waste management plans
The European Court of Justice has ordered the UK to pay costs as a penalty for failing to comply with three EU directives by providing incomplete waste management plans for the whole of it's
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Exxon Valdez oil continues to pollute, 13 years later
Researchers from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told a conference that oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill is continuing to damage Prince William Sound. The Auke Bay
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US Power company to spend over US$337 million to cut emissions
A US power company is to spend just over US$337 million on eliminating the vast majority of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from two New Jersey power plants, following an agreement
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Wales to cut nitrates
Welsh Minister for the Environment Sue Essex has announced the launch of a consultation on ways of reducing nitrate pollution in the principality's lakes and rivers. She is asking for views on
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Epa must review ballast water regulations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must respond to a three year old petition seeking controls on pollution discharges from ships, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
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Transco must test, cleanup 10,500 mile pipeline
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation (Transco) has agreed to test and clean up soil and groundwater contamination related to waste disposal at compressor stations along its natural gas
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Picket to protest illegal mining
Alarmed at the growing incidence of subsidence resulting from rampant illegal mining, Ministers, MPs and MLAs from the Burdwan district of West Bengal have planned to stage a dharna in front of Union
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Skin disease spreads to more villages
Thousands of people belonging to at least 40 villages of Johi Taluka (Pakistan) have been infected with a skin disease, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, but no teams of the health department have visited the
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EU entrants may miss out on farm subsidies
Eastern European diplomats Yesterday expressed dismay at draft European Union plans for holding back on agricultural subsidies to future EU
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Singhadurbar to be pollution free
The Nepal government is in the process of developing the Singadurbar premises as a model environment protected area. The meeting of government's secretaries took the decision to develop the
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Floods give free rein to looters
Constant overnight rain triggered more flooding in Indonesia's capital on Friday, exacerbating hardship for hundreds of thousands of residents already forced to flee their homes. More than 300,000
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Miramar beach project not eco friendly: scientists
The much talked about Miramar Beach Management Project will not lead to the preservation of environment but will infact reduce environmental value, was the general opinion at the multi-stakeholder
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Fish farming moratorium lifted in British Columbia
New environmental standards and practices will allow for lifting of the five year ban on new salmon aquaculture operations in British Columbia as of April 30, the British Columbia government