Caught in the wet
Wetland management is drawing increasing flak for advocating misdirected conservation strategies and disregarding local needs
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Catch a falling star...
What on Earth are comets? And why do they behave whimsically like they do?
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When the water begins to stink...
...Yet another rainforest disappears and a way of life dies as "development" catches up with the Guaranis of Paraguay
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Imminent deluge
Asian countries risk becoming the dumping ground for the world"s burgeoning waste trade
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Business nonsense
The Globe is getting warmer. But the only contribution of US businesses is an advertising blitz and political arm twisting to discredit climate science
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The Root Of All Evil
Laws meant to protect the forests are doing exactly the opposite. Funds for afforestation programmes are pocketed by the corrupt and land remains denuded in the process
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The same stale nostrums
EVER SINCE the Earth Summit last year in Rio de Janeiro, there has been a spate of literature on sustainable development. Suddenly there is money aplenty for seminars, conferences and publications on
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Battle zone: Humans vs elephants
Afterwards, an eerie silence envelops the field. There is only the crop
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Back to the pollution board
Industrialists in Agra and Firozabad are in a tizzy about the Supreme Court's order to close down more than 200 polluting industrial units near the Taj Mahal.
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The small big polluter
Small-scale industries: Where regulations are meaningless and pollution control an unaffordable luxury. Can they leapfrog to cost-effective technologies and find shelter in policies that provide reservation in pollution-free sectors?<p> <font face=arial
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A little common sense
Recycling water and chemicals has resulted in drastic reduction of effluents from Surat's textile units.
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Did ecological impropriety lead to the end?
Historians generally agree that the death of the Indus Valley civilisation did not occur because of a single dramatic event, but came about due to several factors. One probability is that the people of that age mismanaged natural resources
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CETPs: in fashion
Pollution from small-scale industries has grown by leaps and bounds. So, building common effluent treatment plants (cetps) has become a fashion. The Union ministry of environment and forests (mef)
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Grabbing land for green cover
"Green cover" -- a near-generic, near-pacifist environmental term today -- was coined at a time of bitter war, by Allied troops hiding from Japanese bombing runs in Malaya's forests in World War II.
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No lead in Lanka
Sri Lanka is set to curb atmospheric lead pollution by introducing lead free petrol for its cars
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A conversion problem
Catalytic converters, devices meant to clean car exhausts, are backfiring on the environment
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Pollution Pvt. Ltd.
A polluting industrial unit in Gujarat continues to operate, despite the state Pollution Control Board issuing notices to shut it down
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Dumping right
At last, Russia signs an agreement to tackle the massive radiation pollution in its sea and land
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Noisy tussle
Fresh notification for DG set makers soon
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More dirt on GAP
The much-hyped sewage treatment plants installed in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, under the Ganga Action Plan are proving to be ineffective. A report released in October states that the irrigation water supplied from these steps to villages located in the area i