Measuring up
Parameters common to the 8-parameter and 10-parameter models arabian sea sst*: Based on average sea surface temperature of northwest Arabian Sea during January and February. Positively
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Shrub oil Roadworthy
early tests show that jojoba-fuelled engines spew fewer pollutants, run more quietly and for longer, and perform just as well as those that run on diesel. Jojoba is a desert shrub that can
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Sex change
according to the environmental group, Friends of Earth ( f o e ) an ici factory in Middlesborough is the uk 's largest polluter of a group of chemicals, alkylphenols, that
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CASE FILE: Peeragarhi
The way to shut a polluting industry and how it usually does not happen
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No respite for Taj
despite the closure of polluting units in its vicinity from December 31, 2001, the Taj continues to reel under the onslaught of suspended particulate matter (spm) and sulphur dioxide (so2).
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Will this work?
Polluters assigned the task of disaster management in Gujarat
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Pollution export
The Ontario government recently filed a complaint with the us Environmental Protection Agency. It has criticised proposals it believes will lead to more pollution on the Canadian side of the border
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The green goblins
Only those industrial processes, which are almost non polluting should be reserved for the small scale sector
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Fumes and effluents increase over the years
IS INDIAN industry becoming more pollution-intensive? Consider the production levels of some of the most polluting industries: Gross output of the paper and paper products industry and related
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Ecology becomes integral part of state policy
With pollution threatening to smother Egypt, environmental planning is becoming central to the country's economic policies
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Damned, eitherway
The closure of 25 polluting units in Gujarat on the orders of the High Court in early May and its subsequent fallout has caught the state government on the wrong foot. The 50-page order castigated
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For a better future
<font class="UCASE">the </font> Union government has shut down 125 highly polluting industries across the country while forcing 1,261 such units to install the pollution control facilities, according to a report. The ministry of environment and forests has identified about 1,551 large and medium industries in the 17 categories of highly polluting industries. Nearly 165 of them are still in process of installing the requisite facilities to control pollution, said the ministry's annual report.<br>
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Change maker
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'1,000 Shades Of Grey': A Tale Of 'Capital' Pollution
<p>Like Diwali, air pollution has also become a part of north India's ritual, one that no one looks forward to but is a byproduct of everything that is wrong with urban India - mis-governance, political
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For a few drops
in the recent months, water has become a major bone of contention between Israel and Jordan. Recently, a ceremony to inaugurate a peace park on the border between the two countries was
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Wobbly stand
With elections round the corner, the Delhi government has gone back on its decision to phase out 15 year old commercial vehicles
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India, China join hands
INDIA AND China signed an ecology pact on September 7, during Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's visit to Beijing. "The two countries have several common environmental problems, which can be solved
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Cheaper remedy
Sri Lanka has derived a sure-fire formula for reducing drug prices and curbing the nation's medicine import bill. At a recent seminar, health experts recommended that the island nation import only
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Cadmium and cancer
New study offers strong support for a link
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Chlorine toxicity
The use of bleaching powder in drinking water may cause cance