Sikkim s crusader
Sikkim s Pawan Kumar Chamling is felicitated for being the greenest chief minister of India
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Cost a DBCP? Sterility, cancer
Two prominent chemical companies and three Us fresh produce companies have been sued by Costa Rica's banana pickers for causing reproductive disorders through pesticide use. The lawsuit was filed in
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Srinagar officials, residents agree on three more dumpsites
on april 13, 2007, residents of Achen, a locality in Srinagar, and the municipal authorities agreed that three new dumpsites should be set up in three zones of the city, to supplement the
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The business of environment
IN NOT too distant a future, much of the pep and zing may disappear from environmental campaigns. Business may well reduce a concern for the environment into advertisement copy to burnish its own
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Needed: Answers
The questionnaire sent by CSE's Right To Clean Air Campaign to senior executives of transnational carmakers selling diesel cars in India: • We presume that you know that suspended
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Truth unearthed
It has come to light that the us government has given away an estimated 1.5 million hectares (ha) of its public lands, often for as little as us $2 per ha, for hardrock mining operations. These
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European bird pioneers new route
The European blackcap has dramatically changed its migration pattern, flying to a new site, more than 1,000 km north of the region where it traditionally spent the winter.
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What is the truth?
Private bus owners have a different story to tell The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) will never win a medal for transparency if one goes by what it takes to gain access to even the simplest
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Slippery biz
Voluntary standards never work in India
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Radioactive waste in Congolese river
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered residents of Likasi town to stay away from the local river Mura following reports that a large consignment of radioactive material has
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Poison package
Dioxins and fLirans. two deadly by- products of medical waste incineration, form directly from chlorine and chlorinated products which are present in much larger volumes in medical wastes than in
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Solidarlty
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries have decided to put up a joint front before the United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) meeting to be held in June this
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Scrap the factory
Doubts over eco friendly nature of export oriented plant
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Vehicles of radiation
Radioactivity should be added to the list of potential carcinogens in motor-vehicle exhausts, say scientists from the University of Bristol, UK. Denis Henshaw and colleagues have found raised
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The verdict
What the judiciary needs to do is to put the heat on the regulatory and executive agencies of the country and improve the country's environmental governance systems
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The investment dilemma
Technological improvement for greater efficiency faces many hurdles, especially poor immediate returns on investment
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Birds Of Burden
Chickens help to transport wood in the forests of Gujarat
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Double whammy
Adulteration of milk is not a new problem in the town of Bulandshahar in western Uttar Pradesh (UP). However, it is leading to another type of slow poisoning. Local people complain that dairies
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Rudderless
Ecotourism is the new buzzword in the Indian government
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Saying no to taxes
INFLICTING eco-taxes may not be the right way to curb pollution, the European Commission has declared. In its policy paper on trade and environment released in the last week of February, it says