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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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Conflict and "capital logic"
Mining companies, aided by a short sighted bureaucracy, have recklessly plundered Papua New Guinea's vast mineral wealth, transforming its socio economic profile and leaving behind a degraded environment.
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Partners in prosperity
Sukhomajr, a village in Haryana, has come to symbolise how community efforts at natural regeneration can improve both the forests and the people's standard of living.
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Upholding the right to hygiene
The citizens of Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh continue to put up with a filthy, malodorous town despite a landmark Supreme Court ruling 13 years ago, which held it mandatory for municipalities to provide sanitation facilities.
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Industrial blackmail!
Having done precious little to clean up its polluting act in the past 30 years, a Kerala factory is indirectly blackmailing the state government with a closure notice if it does not get raw material at dirt cheap rates
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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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Loopholes in food safety legislation
New food safety legislation does not fit the health bill
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Changing colours
The Goan government echoes environmental concerns in its state budget
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Not all green is healthy
RABINDRANATH Tagore's much loved tree, the scholar's tree or Alstonia scholaris, is today a bone of contention within the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology (11T) in Kanpur. Last
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Market rights
The 20 papers included in this book examine 3 issues -- market access commitments, plant breeders' rights and reduction of export subsidies on agro-exports. It has been argued that the
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Dying for a river
In Raigarh district of Madhya Pradesh, tribals are fighting to save their only source of water from an industrial house. A woman has already died while sitting on a hunger strike
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The case that closed the Walia mines
Litigation against unscientific and environmentally dangerous mining activity brought Himachal Pradesh lime quarries into national prominence.
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Floating park is drowning
Development threatens the world s largest floating park situated in Manipur
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Tree travails
The Union government asks the Supreme Court to lift the interim ban on tree felling amid growing pressure from the northeastern states
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Draft EIA notification favours industry over environment
the draft environmental impact assessment (eia) notification has been available for comment on the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) website for almost a year now. Consequently, moef
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Bird brained decisions
A ban on grazing follows a decision to allow harvesting of grass in Keoladeo
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Country s waste, Gujarat s wealth
Industrialists who have been shown the door elsewhere in the country find welcoming arms in Gujarat. The state seems to be allowing industries that have been rejected elsewhere due to environmental concerns to set up shop
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Waste worry
Kerala is finding it difficult to dispose its waste
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Himachal cement plants face flak
The Himachal government's plans to install cement plants in the state create a none too happy situation
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UK breathes easy after Ripa di Meana's exit
New EC environment commissioner Jacques Delors is expected to take a much softer stand on England's environmental transgressions