Washington: The flow of water in the world

Rivers in some of the world's most populated regions are losing water, many because of climate change, researchers reported on Tuesday.

Affected rivers include the Yellow River in northern China, the Ganges in India, the Niger in West Africa, and the Colorado in the southwestern United States.

The U.S. Congress on Tuesday began work on a bill that would fundamentally change the way American factories and power plants use and supply energy as part of the Obama administration's drive to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

Larji/Banjar: Writ of mining mafia, not writ of law, continue to run large at the destroyed river beds of the bleeding Tirthan river being protected as an exclusive preserve of the fresh water trout angling, as the heads of fisheries, mining, forests and PWD departments continue to live in their official cocoons pleading that

The district of Pudong in the Chinese coastal city of Shanghai will launch a pilot emission trading scheme this year, the China Daily said, citing local officials.

Pudong's environmental bureau will allow more than 300 companies to trade "pollution discharge rights" on the Shenghai Environment and Energy Exchange, according to bureau director Zhang Peijun.

Speakers at a seminar yesterday stressed the need to consider the impacts of climate change while preparing the national budget.

The seminar titled 'Climate change: Its impact on health and environment' was organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa) at Dhaka Reporters Unity auditorium.

Softly flowing through the greenery in the backdrop of the seven hills of the Kataragama landscape, the Menik Ganga had been the guardian and devotee of the sacred shrines and Gods for many centuries. Not only had it quenched the thirst of many a traveller, cleansed the bodies of many a devotee but it had also nurtured and brought immense wealth into the lives of the villagers.

Larji/Gushaini: The mining mafia has spelled doom for state

Quiet flows the Tawi, ignored and much abused by city residents.

Untouched by the humdrum of the 15th Lok Sabha elections, the river, where folklore says goats and tigers drank water together from it, is one of the most polluted water bodies now.