Topic: India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Durga Mukherjee remembers the first time she climbed to the top of New Delhi's largest and oldest landfill, joining the dogs, cows and crows there to begin her life as a waste picker."I vomited so much," the 40-year-old ...
BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Slowing deforestation and greater awareness of the value of standing trees may come too late to save the world's biggest rainforests, according to a global assessment of tropical forests published Tuesday.Tropical forests are threatened by pressures to clear ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India must find ways to balance its environmental and developmental needs, President Pratibha Patil told parliament in a prepared address on Monday."My government has constituted a group of ministers to look into all issues relating to the reconciliation ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday decades of war and burgeoning consumerism had inflicted major environmental damage on his battered country.Karzai told a sustainability conference in New Delhi that the effects of war, pollution and climate change had taken their toll on ...
A letter to the editor is presented about the role of sponges in the marine environment. This finally has led to the introduction of compressed natural gas (CNG) and man- datory technological adoptions like Bharat II in automobiles. In contrast, SPCBs and ...
There are an estimated 12,000 rivers in the United States alone and certain industries are the largest polluters of these water-ways. The Missouri River, the second largest in the United States, runs 2,540 miles and drains one-sixth of the North American Continent. ...
India released the world's cheapest car, the Nano, on January 10, 2008, at a car show in New Delhi. In fact, motorbikes are definitely the vehicle of choice in India; eight million motorbikes were sold in India last year, compared with one ...
- There are 2 subspecies of Assamese macaque: (Macaca assamensis pelops); much more rare, with 1000 individuals only, living in few and small populations in India, Bhutan and in the bordering regions of China. In India, this macaque is frequently known as ...
We've poured our poisons into the worldas though it were a bottomless pit.. From our cell phones, to laptopsto Blue-Ray players and Nintendo DS - they are everywhere. USregulations are rather strict about e-waste, so we send our e-waste somewhereOrWhat happens to ...
Types of pollution The Pollution is of various types, and It needs different type of pollution control1 Air Pollution. Very large number of residents of Metro towns are living in the polluted air Which is killing the people, Many office goers as ...
