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A Brazilian judge has asked the Monsanto Com pany to shelve plans to launch sales of genetically modified (gm) soybeans this year. He further ruled that the biotechnology giant's local unit must
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• Two men from Minnesota, USA will attempt the first summertime crossing of the Arctic Ocean, a trek sponsored by the environmental group Greenpeace to show how global warming is melting the
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Deputy Unit Head–Global Climate & Energy Team, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam
Deputy Unit Head – Global Climate & Energy Team, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam Closing Date: Thursday, 23 April 2012 Deputy Unit Head – Global Climate & Energy Team Organisation: Greenpeace
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Russian body confirms N dumping
The Soviet Union and now Russia has dumped large quantities of radioactive waste into the sea, according to the report of a commission set up by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
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Blind targets
UP To half of the world's biological wealth is threatened with extinction if the current protective measures are not extended to cover more land area. This is the conclusion of a report,
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Siberian tiger in the cold
Conservationists draw up strategies to arrest the rapid decimation of the great Siberian tiger
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Covering up with a plastic smile
The plastics industry in USA maintains its green image by deviously exporting used containers to developing countries for disposal, finds Greenpeace, an international environment group.
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Hearing impaired
People s voices crushed in public hearing on drug factories
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To ban or not to ban
A recent interim court order on toxic trade throws open a Pandora's box: environment, industry, employment, international commitments... the lot
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In Focus
The world may finally bid good bye to all nuclear test explosions. But there are a few stumbling blocks to be crossed before leaders from 93 countries give their final approval to the
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Trial or error?
The Indian government grants permission for trials of transgenic cotton
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Hanged to life
IN a world primarily by the dynamics of the global Market,where rules are made and broken at the whims of Corporate gaint, a parallel force is slowly but steadily gaining Ground. It is the force
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In Focus
France, which had raised the ire of many nations by going ahead with its underground nuclear testing programme from September last, may have to face some more music. Reportedly, the atomic
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IN FOCUS
More blood is likely to flow in Nigeria. Come 1996, and 19 more comrades of the executed Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa will go through the same mockery of justice, and probably end up in the gallows.
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IN FOCUS
France is in a frenzy to be friends again with the rest of the world. Especially with the countries in the South Pacific, which have been smouldering with indignation ever since the
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Alimentary cases
A battle royal rages in the courts of UK as two nondescript environmentalists take on a giant
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Dealing with waste
On the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention, member states reiterate the need to minimise the generation of hazardous waste
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The great nuke snobbery
France obstinately plans to ahead with nuclear testings in the South Pacific just after the NPT conference held by the Big 5
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Disaster down the pipe
A major pipeline explosion exposes the danger posed by Russia's 140,000 km long high pressure gaslines
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Nukes iced
Russia's nuclear recklessness could haunt the Northern regions for centuries to come