Bush offers alternative to Kyoto pact
US President George W Bush unveiled an alternative to the Kyoto climate change treaty he spurned last year, to the dismay of environmentalists who saw the plan as a gift to corporate America.
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Bush plan on climate displeases Tokyo
The Japanese environment minister expressed dissatisfaction with President George W. Bush's plan to combat global warming, adding that Japan would go ahead and ratify the Kyoto treaty rejected by
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Bush's plan won't do a thing to halt global warming
The pledge by the Bush administration to reduce greenhouse gas intensity by 18 percent may have sounded like a pledge to reduce greenhouse gases, the emissions that cause global warming. But the
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Poisonous gas
One person died after inhaling poisoning gas emanating from an underground sewerage system at the Indian Oil Corporation refinery in Haldia, West Bengal
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Bush gives his own answer to Kyoto
President George W. Bush was preparing to announce a plan calling for voluntary measures to slow but not halt the growth in emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming, White House
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Asia keen on Bush-backed emissions credits trade
Power companies in Asia are hoping a new anti-global warming plan due from U.S. President George Bush will include support for emissions credit trading that could help fund cleaner energy across the
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Bush targets greenhouse gases
President George W Bush intends to offer a plan formally lining the environment and the economy in his first step toward developing a U.S alternative to the contentious Kyoto Protocol combating
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Predicting cancer
A simple blood test might be used successfully to predict the chances of a person contracting lung cancer. Researchers at Columbia University, New York, USA, used blood samples that had been
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Ban and beyond
Rather than prohibiting the use of polybags, India must prepare a wider plastic waste management policy
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Market without a window
The domestic market of biopesticides is the best showcase of their plight. It is virtually bereft of buyers and sellers. Moreover, the niche that biopesticides have carved for themselves seem to be overshadowed by Bt-based products. However, the export
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Rich bias
IS THE world's environment really in crisisor is thecrisis simply in the imagination of environmental groupsresearchers andthe media? In The Skeptical EnvironmentalistBj
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Catch that rain to meet the demand
How much deeper can the earth be dug for that precious wealth we call water? The answer is little. Only rainwater harvesting has the potential to settle the urban water crisis. Building bylaws have
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KBJN readies Rs 350-crore infrastructure bond issue
The Karnataka government promoted Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigam, which is implementing the Upper Krishna project to irrigate 6.22 lakh hectares, plans to approach the market with a bond issue of Rs 350
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Bush to declare Kyoto alternative
President George W. Bush will announce a new global warming proposal on Thursday, the White House said, in an attempt to answer critics of his decision to shelve the UN-backed Kyoto treaty. "The
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New minister holds out hope of U.S. return to Kyoto Protocol
It is important for Japan to push ahead with ratification of the Kyoto climate pact during the current Diet session and hope that any alternative proposal from the United States will be compatible
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Bush offers plan for voluntary measures to limit gas emissions
President Bush announced his long- awaited plans for slowing the buildup of gases linked to climate change and for cutting power plant pollution. His speech, made this afternoon at a government
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Amid other woes, global warming to make day longer
Global warming will not only flood the most beautiful tropical beaches, help spread disease and in general mess up the weather - it is going to make the days longer, too, Belgian researchers
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Bush to set out global climate proposals today
Almost a year after provoking widespread international criticism by rejecting the Kyoto protocol on climate change, president George W Bush will set out his own proposals for addressing global
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Raining good results
The situation in Chennai has reached such a stage that it had to support itself year round with water tankers. To make matters worse, the last three years have also seen poor rainfall. To help people
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Climate change poachers turn gamekeepers
A White House announcement later this week on measures to counter global climate change will be closely watched by two of the oldest and most influential senators on Capitol Hill. An unlikely Senate