India
• The Gujarat government is considering a proposal to carry out environmental audit in industries which manufacture or process hazardous chemicals and pose a threat to sur-rounding areas. The
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Industries get long rope to rein pollution
There is a green tinge to Manmohan Singh's proposals, but he has failed to counter fallouts from liberalisation, such as waste from the food processing industry.
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Forced To Act
Fearing a ban, Indian industry has announced that it can accept emission warranty system for two stroke two wheeler vehicles with catalytic converters. But is it yet another eyewash
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Moneymakers
cleaner alternative: A biofertiliser plant has been established in Bharatpur, Raja s than, and it will start production by the end of September, 2000. The plant has been established by the
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Clean and pure
water in the us will now flow with a guarantee. President Bill Clinton recently signed a bill designed to upgrade municipal water systems in view of the deteriorating water standards. The new law
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Thirsting for more
The soft drink industry s water consumption levels are high and rising
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Japan acts on Kyoto pledge
Gets clean air credits by undertaking energy projects in Kazakhstan
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Soft targets
Malaria is back with a bang in East Africa. Its latest victim is Kenya, where the epidemic has killed at least 294 people since June 2002. According to estimates, more than 158,000 cases of the
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Electric bacteria
Use tiny hair as wires to mop up pollutants
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The father of the clean car
In 1970, the us Congress passed the Clean Air Act. Besides other provisions, the act called for a motor engine that could eliminate 90 per cent of the pollutants emitted by conventional car engines.
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Mother, take care
What if the nurturer herself turns into a polluter? Smoking and / or drinking mothers poison the foetus. Alcohol consumers expose the foetus to alcohol syndrome, which engenders congenital
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Show the way out
The Voluntary Health Association of India (vhai) has launched a campaign to ban and withdraw the manufacture, sale and distribution of endosulfan, a deadly chemical pesticide. vhai's call for
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A natural antidote
A new technique shall help do away with unwanted, polluting byproducts of certain manufacturing processes
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MONEYMAKERS
NATIVE REMEDY: Pune-based Bio Ved Pharma (BVP) is all set to make its mark in the Indian pharmaceuticals market, with the launch of its first Ayurvedic drug artrex in February next year. BVP is a 100
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Asthma and allergy
There s more to diesel than cancer. And at the receiving end is poor people
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Poisoned land
Pollutants released by world's industrialised nations end up in Inuit's food
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Ganga officials turn to turtle
A plan is on to restore the falling population of turtles in the Ganga to keep the waters clean.
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Killer on the prowl
Hepatitis B is a communicable disease with a high strike rate the germ: "The Hepatitis B virus kills 20 out of every 100 infected people each day. This works out to 400 times the people who die
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Drenched by doubts
Officials dismiss green rain in Bengal village as bee droppings, but experts find flaws in the theory
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From the realms of past...
...researchers discover oldest hard shelled marine animal