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Rising air pollution levels in South Asia will have worldwide environmental consequences.

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Sarath Chelluri / Mumbai October 13, 2008, 0:39 IST
The rising demand for CNG and PNG as cleaner and cost efficient fuels, and the Commonwealth Games are positive triggers for Indraprastha Gas.

EDF yesterday announced separate agreements with Renault and PSA Peugeot Citro

European carmakers yesterday became the latest industry grouping to ask for support when they said they would approach the European Commission about a

Renault sees demand for as many as 50,000 electric vehicles in 2011, the year the carmaker will begin selling such zero emission cars in Denmark, Israel and Portugal, engineering and quality head Jean-Louis Ricaud said on Thursday in an interview with Reuters.

Ricaud confirmed the electric car will be based on the Megane platform and called the 'Fluence'.

GLOBAL AUTO MAKERS are nishing to challenge the dominance of Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius hybrid with a slew of eco-friendly vehicles. But Honda Motor Co. is likely to pose the most formidable threat to Toyota when it unveils its new Insight hybrid car Thursday at the Paris Auto Show.

Bulk percipitation displays the combined effects of all water soluble components of precipitation. Dust from the earth's surface is commonly assumed to be alkaline; it is commonly reported in the literature as a constituent of the atmosphere and of precipitation.

Global climate change has resulted primarily from the accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases
(GHGs) in the atmosphere over the last 150 years. However, recent studies indicate that, on average, 40 per cent of the potential warming by GHGs is being masked by certain aerosols (and aerosol-cloud interactions) that increase the reflection of sunlight.

Delegates to a recent IMO working group meeting were unable to make progress toward an agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from international shipping.

Hyderabad, Sept. 30: More and more traffic police personnel in the city are suffering from asthma, bronchitis and other respiratory disorders because of severe air pollution. The level of suspended particulate matter in the city air is higher than the national average and traffic cops, who are in the thick of it, face much of its detrimental effects.

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