SOUTH AFRICA
Government plans to introduce a fleet of new taxis running on diesel has triggered off an outcry in South Africa. Environ mentalists view the country's new-generation taxi fleet with diesel fuel
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THE MONEY MAKERS
• Investors have been flocking to timber-based businesses in Malaysia, where timber related stocks are being traded at high prices. This is a result of a combination of strong timber prices and
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INDIA
Commercially viable low-on-emission hydrogen fuel cell buses may soon become a regular feature on the roads of metro cities beginning with Delhi. Funded by the Global Environmental Facility project
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IN FOCUS
Cosmonauts aboard the damaged space station Mir, are cleaning up the ship and are preparing to return home after the most troubled mission in the space station's 11-year history. They are waiting for
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The Ladakh Ecological Development Group
Genesis: The work of LEDeG was initiated by Helena Norberg-Hodge, a Swedish linguist who first came to Ladakh in 1975, just after the region had been opened up to tourism. In the 1970s, Ladakh emerged
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Shadowy presence
A haze of pollutants, the size of the US, covers a part of the Indian Ocean sky creating fears of acid rain, low rainfall and a change in environmental politics
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Fuels for the future
Despite being clean, alternative fuels fail to become the first choice
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Are Off-Grid Solutions Really More Expensive for the Rural Poor?
<p>A number you likely know: 400 million. That’s how many people live without electricity in India. And not coincidentally, most of these people are poorest of the poor and live in rural villages
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India should guide the world on fighting climate change
<p><strong><img alt="" src="http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/msanwal_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px;" />Moving sustainability from ideas to reality and regaining the
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Let the drylands bloom
By maintaining terrestrial forestation to improve the soils, drylands can be saved from being further degraded
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Third World energy in terms of US policy
AN INDICATOR of a society's level of development is the quantity and quality of the energy it consumes. This is made clear by the wide disparity in per capita energy consumption in industrialised and
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Delayed hazards of earth's fiery outbursts
Volcanic explosions don't only throw up a lot of dust and kill thousands of people. Even two years after a flare up, weather patterns in distant places can be affected.
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Panel to smooth North South squabbles on GEF
A special committee is being set up to solve clashes between the industrialised and developing countries over national and international gains in environmental projects.
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Stretching arguments to point of absurdity
CRITICISING or condemning lopsided developmental priorities and highlighting their consequences is one thing; outright rejection of the very concept of development, science and technology is quite
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Criminal waste
Reduced to filthy, foul smelling cesspools, with mosquito larvae arawing their lazy, intricate patterns on the green surfaces, the same takes and tanks in urban areas draw a passerby's game is when purple hyacinths bloom and disguise their filth. O
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Eyeing the coastlines
Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor fisherfolk for their settlements, is the administration surreptitiously letting in Indian companies and multinationa
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Energetic dialogues
American industry tries to power its way into the Indian renewable energy market
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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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Screening smoke
Unexpected photography from aboard a space shuttle reveals patches of sulphate aerosols which keep some industrial pockets cooler
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Space rope trick
An experiment to tap the power of outer cosmos fails as the link cable breaks