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Climate Change

 Chilka is shrinking

Continuous siltation will choke Asia s biggest brakish lagoon to death

Publication Date: 
14/10/2001
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Climate Change, Floods, Orissa (Odisha)
Climate Change

 Endgame

Calamities, environmental degradation and bad governance invest to make Orissa India's poorest state

Publication Date: 
14/10/2001
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Climate Change

 Let them eat kernel...

In Kashipur, starvation continues to stalk its residents. Nearly 50 people died after consum-ing ungus-ridden mango kernel till August. But the state government defended this say-ing that mango

Publication Date: 
14/10/2001
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Climate Change, Floods, Orissa (Odisha)
India

 Losing signals

the Olive Ridley satellite telemetry experiment of the Wildlife Institute of India (wii) has failed, with signals

Publication Date: 
14/10/2001
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Animal Breeding, Marine Life, Turtles, India, Orissa (Odisha)
India

 The truth of grains

The recent starvation deaths in Orissa have thrown up a more fundamental question that of local food security.

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
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Food Supply, Starvation, Food Storage, Water Conservation, India, Orissa (Odisha), Food Security
India

 People's initiatives

Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today s obdurate governments

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
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Environment, Dams, Irrigation, Canal Irrigation, Rural Habitat, Construction Workers, Planning, Finance, India, Orissa (Odisha), Sambalpur (D), Uttar Pradesh
India

 Holy mess

The Supreme Court pulls up the Orissa government for pollution in Puri

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
Satyasundar Barik
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Pollution, Sanitation, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Legislation, Supreme Court, India, Orissa (Odisha), Puri (D)
India

 Spent force?

the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (cag) has condemned the Orissa government and the state pollution control board (pcb) for their failure on various fronts, including lapses in

Publication Date: 
14/09/2001
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Pollution Control, River Pollution, Chilka, Water Quality, Health Effects, Governance, India, Orissa (Odisha)
Air Pollution

 Unkindest cuts

An amendment to the Orissa forest act gives sweeping powers to forest officials

Publication Date: 
30/08/2001
Ranjan Panda
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Forest Management, Forest Act, Deforestation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Orissa (Odisha)
Industry

 Draconian changes

• Punishers the community for 'crimes' like for fuelwood. • Doubles penalty for forest 'crimes' - in reserve forests imprisonment can be till sven years. • No accountability for

Publication Date: 
30/08/2001
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Forest Education, Orissa (Odisha)

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