Benzene in the air
Levels of carcinogenic pollutants are alarmingly high in Calcutta s air
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Drowning In Human Excreta
Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an environmental catastrophe. MANOJ NADKARNI analyses our flush and forget mindset
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Waiting for the mud
Mexican vulcanologists are trying to track the path that destructive mudslides, the fallout of an impending volcanic eruption, might take
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Diesel needs to be dearer still
Diesel will cost more now. But not for any compelling health or environmental reason
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Shifting from hell to hell
EVERY once in a few years, the authorities of the National Capital Territory of Delhi appear to notice with considerable shock that industries in the city may be polluting the city's atmosphere. When
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Another scourge
The prolonged intake of water containing excess fluoride causes the crippling disease called fluorosis. The first case of endemic fluorosis in India was reported from Andhra Pradesh in 1937. By 1999,
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Power plant turns gas chamber
Four Japanese electricity workers were killed and seven injured when turbine steam escaped at a nuclear plant in Mihama, on the Sea of Japan. The incident, involving the highest number of fatalities
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The battle of the Indian bulge - I
In Nagpur city, women gather outside a court. In broad daylight they lynch a local serial rapist. When four women are arrested, few hundred women own up to the crime. They say they killed Akku Yadav
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Mega mishap
Bangladesh wants remedy; can India and Nepal pitch in?
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Choking on cooking fuel
Ben Barber We are stripping the planet of the very minerals needed to regenerate fuel In Delhi, Dhaka, Dakar and Kathmandu, you can see villagers hauling sticks, twigs and charcoal to the market.
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The hidden reservoir
SATELLITE imagery suggests that there should be a large reservoir -- most probably an artificial one -- buried southwest of Dholavira. One of the best cultivated fields in the locality is contiguous
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Too much at stake
Four oil companies Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Reliance Industries have signed a memorandum with industry and scientific institutions
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When a river weeps...
Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying out for attention
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Deadly proposal
the proposal to create a brand new garden belt from Nariman Point to Mahim and beyond in Mumbai has come under a lot of criticism from environmentalists. According noted environmentalist
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Study on pollution
a study carried out in Faridabad, south of Delhi, has revealed that the level of air and noise pollution is far in excess to the permissible limits. The study was undertaken by the Environment
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Of shikaras and slums
The colony that has mushroomed upon the Dal Lake is the only slum on water in Srinagar. A byproduct of the proxy war between India and Pakistan, it threatens to kill the lake
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International dump yard
Where will nations take their nuclear wastes?
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An amendment to deny
In a historic move, Bushmen sued the Botswana government for forcing them off their ancestral land, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (ckgr). Lending a new twist to things, a Botswana government
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The great water rip off
URBAN India faces a water crisis Madras to Jodhpur, most cities are already facing the crippling effects of scarcity. There is hardly any city in India that canboast of a 24-hour water supply. But
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Evaporating resources
The picture that emerges in this water rich country is indeed frightening. And even more worrisome is that nobody is doing anything about it