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 VIETNAM

Drinking water in some parts of northern Vietnam is contaminated with arsenic levels 50 times higher than the set standards, according to a recent study. Due to this, more than 11 million people are

Publication Date: 
30/08/2001
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Arsenic, Drinking Water, Health Effects, Vietnam
Climate Change

 Disastrous plan

an environmental nightmare is how the environmentalists describe a recent proposal of British Nuclear Fuels ( bnfl ). The company plans to build an aboveground nuclear waste dump in the heart

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30/08/2001
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Nuclear Power, Nuclear Wastes, United Kingdom (UK)
Climate Change

 Water cooled

Water minimises the climatic effects of a cooler or warmer sun suggests Hsien-Wang Ou, researcher at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, USA. The Sun has got about 30 per cent hotter

Publication Date: 
30/08/2001
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Climate Change, Global Warming, Environmental Science, Research
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 Searing heat

Global temperature to rise by alarming 2 4 C

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30/08/2001
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Climate Change, Global Warming, Environmental Science, Europe, United States Of America (US)
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 No cap on mechanisms

On the issue of quantitative restrictions on the use of flexibility mechanisms by industrialised countries to meet their emission reduction commitments, once again the EU compromised on its

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30/08/2001
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 PERU

Ancient civilisations of Peru collapsed partially because of the El Ni

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30/08/2001
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El Nino, Climate Change, Peru, Climate
India

 The Kyoto Compromise

The Kyoto compromise will cost the world and us a whole lot more than a new set of clothes for the emperor

Publication Date: 
30/08/2001
Anil Agarwal
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Environment, Kyoto Protocol, Emissions Trading, Developing Countries, Climate Change
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 Rescued or doomed

Nations adopt a diluted agreement at Bonn on implementing the Kyoto Protocol. 180 countries finally reached an agreement on the rules to implement the international treaty to combat global warming giving away too many concessions to polluting countries

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Climate Change

 A water journey

Monsoon means celebrations for the people of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat who script success stories of rainwater harvesting. But in Rajasthan they are questioned: who own the raindrop?

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
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Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Check Dam, Watershed Development, Drought, Public Participation, NGO, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jhabua (D), Rajasthan
Climate Change

 Plant like bacteria

An unusual, plant-like bacteria capable of a type of photosynthesis is available in far more numbers in the ocean than previously y assumed. The discovery adds a new component to the ocean's carbon

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
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Oceans and Seas, Micro Organisms, Environmental Science

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