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Air Pollution

 Australian town says no to drinking recycled sewage

function table() { var popurl="image/20060930/34.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=375,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } Drought-stricken Toowoomba, the second largest

Publication Date: 
29/09/2006
Bharat Lal Seth
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Management, Water Policy, Water Treatment Technology, Water Quality, Drinking Water, Urban Water Supply, Australia, Statistics
Air Pollution

 Ferry ride on West Bengal's waterways project ends in mud

Waterways

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
Down to Earth
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Dredging, Inland Waterways, Media, West Bengal, Calcutta (D)
Air Pollution

 Lights out in Hong Kong to protest polluted air

Pollution

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
Down to Earth
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Air Pollution, Thermal Power Plants, Media
Air Pollution

 Australia divided over carbon trading

new South Wales (nsw) premier Morris Iemma, South Australian premier Mike Rann and Victorian environment minister John Thwaites have recently issued a paper that suggests a possible design for a

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
Ritu Gupta
Down to Earth
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Air Pollution, Economy, Kyoto Protocol, Emissions Trading, Energy, Electricity, Industry, Australia
Water Pollution

 IN COURT

Setback for Bhopal victims: In a major setback to the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the US court of appeals for the Second Circuit in New York has rejected their plea against Union

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
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Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Health Effects, Compensation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, United States Of America (US), New York
Environment

 Sponge iron industries are killing fields

The sponge iron industry is growing fast and polluting alarmingly. K Radhika in Chhattisgarh and Maureen Nandini Mitra in Jharkhand and Orissa examine the problem

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
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Environment, Air Pollution, Land Resources, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Health Effects, Economy, Tribals, Conflicts, Poverty, Gram Sabhas, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), Statistics, Pollution
Air Pollution

Air quality trends and action plan for control of air pollution from seventeen cities

Urbanisation in India is more rapid in and around National Capital as well as the State Capitals and, over the years, these cities have become major centers for commerce, industry and education. Enormous increase in number of vehicles has resulted in increased emission of air pollutants and, as a result, levels of air pollutants such as respirable suspended particulate matter are found to exceed the prescribed standards in these cities.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2006
CPCB
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Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Urban Air Quality, SPM, RSPM (PM 10), Air Act 1981, India
Air Pollution

 Good times, bad times

"Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in

Publication Date: 
30/08/2006
Down to Earth
Air Pollution

 Aerosols affect cloud cover, says study

tiny particles called aerosols found in smoke and most types of air pollution can increase or decrease the cloud cover, claims a study conducted in the us. Whether aerosols stop or assist cloud

Publication Date: 
30/08/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution, Climate Change, Aerosols, Research, Global, Climate
Environment

 Ecological disaster looms large over Lebanon

As Israel continues airstrikes on Lebanon, the country is now threatened by its worst ecological disaster. At least 35,000 tonnes of oil gushed into the Mediterranean, after Israeli warplanes hit

Publication Date: 
30/08/2006
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