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there is growing evidence to believe that the incidence of acid rain is increasing in India. Many experts link the phenomenon with increasing industrialisation in the country. On August 23,

Monitoring of ambient air quality and noise pollution was conducted at 'Asselmetta junction' in Visakhapatnam city (Andhra Pradesh), which is heart of the city with an important traffic junction and a well known business center. In this area, monitoring was done for 10 days over RSPM, TSPM, NOx and SO2 levels in the air using 'noiseless repirable dust sampler' and for 4 days over noise pollution levels using 'sound level meter'.

Air quality deterioration, especially in urban areas of developing countries, is one of the most alerting problems of modern civilization. Present investigation shows the impact of atmospheric deposition on accumulation and translocation of heavy metals in different parts of wheat plants. Results depicted that metal accumulation was higher at sites with higher pollution load than sites having less pollution.

Of the Rs 700 crore allotted for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Orissa, Rs 500 crore has been siphoned off by officials, says a survey by the Centre for Environment and Food

The Australian government has given the green light to Australian $10-billion (about us $8-billion) plan to revive the Murray-Darling basin, which provides 40 per cent of the country's food. The

Smog that has engulfed Japan's cities and rural areas for the first time in 30 years has alarmed the government prompting it to issue warnings to 28 prefectures in the country. Experts blame

abestos negligence:Two Oklahoma state officials were found guilty of negligence by a federal court jury on August 20, 2007. In 2003, the guilty men, Guy R Hylton, Jr, city manager of the Elk City

the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (bmc) recently invited expressions of interest from agencies to conduct a survey of greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions across various sectors in the city.

UK's consumption-based emissions analysis challenges conventional wisdom Carbon emissions of a country have been calculated on the basis of production of goods and services, until now.

I smelled the air of Bangalore last week. It was foul. I remembered how in the late 1990s, when Delhi s air was dark and dirty, we had run an advertisement in the newspapers Roll down the window of

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