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Oil lease sale blocked: In a preliminary ruling, a US federal court has recently blocked the US administration's plan to allow oil companies, access to the sensitive wetlands near the vast Teshekpuk
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Pitching eco messages and washing machines
A recent exhibition in Delhi drew crowds looking for discounts and new gadgets. But how many paid attention to a special section on the danger to the environment and the need for eco friendly development?
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Natural elements keep homes comfortable
A new architectural technique uses the sun and other natural elements to regulate temperature, thereby helping to conserve non renewable energy resources.
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US tastes cream paste
It is still unclear who the new US president is. Even if he is favourably inclined towards the protocol there is every chance of it getting rejected by the Senate
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Chattisgarh
Fighting the drought preoccupies the new government. Charting a mining policy to explore the rich mineral deposits is next on the agenda
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The unsilenced valley
The Bhils of Madhya Pradesh are armed with a simple, effective and practical system of irrigation to mend the ruin inflicted by the state's impractical and rudderless schemes
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Bangladesh State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, April 2014
<p>The Bangladesh government has launched Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project in a bid to reduce poverty in the vulnerable 12 coastal districts due to climate change. Read more in this April 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bangladesh.</p>
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Durban turning futile as EU buries head in sand
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">With the carbon market in doldrums, emerging economies like India will have to announce bolder schemes for a low carbon
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Garbage to gold
In Bombay, simple technologies are being used to convert garbage into fuel and biofertilisers.
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Pollution fears cloud future of cement plants
The announcement that more cement factories will be set up in the state has unleashed a controversy. Units already operational have not controlled emissions and it is feared more plants will further degrade the environment and adversely affect tourism.
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For a few units more
A high tech power station foreign companies are building in Maharashtra is being touted as the "perfect solution" to its anticipated electricity shortfall. The mystery is that the agreement and the environment impact assessment are under wraps
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Beyond oil
Energy security will not come with more drilling. The faster we realise this, the better
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Pickled power
Hill women, long deprived of any economic rights, have found their independent, confident voice in activities spurred by a welfare group
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Crores to gamble
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Go, No Go and All Go
<p>If you believe the financial press, one of the biggest environmental stories this past year has been the question of "go" and "no go" areas for coal mining.
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Death by starvation
About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.
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Nothing gained, but nothing lost either
The glitz at UNCED was very impressive over 100 heads of government gathered together to thrash out environment politics. But the results were disappointing
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Has India missed the boat?
Bhargava adds: "Unfortunately, neem is not the only case where we have lost out. We (at the CCMB) discovered a protein called seminal plasmin (published in Nature and widely publicised in the late