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Butterflies first climate indicators |
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The Times of India , Sunday, June 05, 2016 |
Bhopal: On World Environment Day, citizens and experts mostly talk about saving electricity, planting saplings and raise concern about depleting water levels. But there are tiny and beautiful creature ...More
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World Environment Day: SAFE to hold eco programmes |
Nandini Sen Gupta |
The Times of India , Saturday, June 04, 2016 |
CHENNAI: The Society for Automotive Fitness & Environment (SAFE), an initiative by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), is scheduled to mark the World Environment Day across 5,500 au ...More
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Global heat, sea level hit record highs in 2015 |
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The Times of India , Friday, June 03, 2016 |
Global heat, greenhouse gases and sea levels all climbed to record highs last year, making 2015 the worst in modern times across a range of key environmental indicators, international scientists said ...More
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Rs.5 crore for Pampa conservation |
RADHAKRISHNAN KUTTOOR |
The Hindu , Friday, June 03, 2016 |
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFs) released Rs.5 crore to Kerala in March for implementing pollution-abatement schemes in the Pampa as part of the National River Con ...More
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Awareness generated on environment protection |
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The Assam Tribune , Thursday, June 02, 2016 |
BISWANATH CHARIALI, June 1 - The National Environment Awareness Programme was observed recently with a daylong programme at Cherelia ME School at Behali in Biswanath district under the aegis of Nature ...More
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Washington state aims to limit carbon pollution |
Associated Press |
The Financial Express , Thursday, June 02, 2016 |
Washington state’s largest industrial polluters would be required to reduce carbon emissions gradually over time under a proposed rule.
The measure released Wednesday is a key piece in Gov. Jay Insle ...More
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Environment ministry lifts embargo on 43 CEPI areas |
SadaguruPandit |
The Asian Age , Thursday, June 02, 2016 |
As the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC), lifts the six-year-old moratorium imposed under the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI), Maharashtra Pollution Board ...More
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Bright spot: Antarctica's ozone hole is starting to heal |
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The New Indian Express , Thursday, June 02, 2016 |
WASHINGTON: Antarctica's ozone hole finally is starting to heal, a new study finds.
In a triumph of international cooperation over a man-made environmental problem, research from the United States an ...More
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Bee population up after last Ice Age: Study |
IANS |
The Times of India , Thursday, June 02, 2016 |
SYDNEY: Contrary to previous belief, the population size of a bee specie has increased dramatically during the global warming following the last Ice Age, finds a study.
The Australian small carpent ...More
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Environment ministry switches to swift gear |
N Sundaresha Subramanian |
Business Standard , Thursday, June 02, 2016 |
A lot of water has flown down the Ganga since the days of 'Jayanti Tax'.
Once the favourite punching bag for corporate India for inordinate delays in clearances and its opaque nature of functioning ...More
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Bee population thrived after last Ice Age: study |
PTI |
India Today , Thursday, June 02, 2016 |
Melbourne, Jun 1 (PTI) The population of a bee species appears to have dramatically flourished in the period of global warming following the last Ice Age some 18,000 years ago, a new study has found.
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25 years of reforms: The environment vs growth debate |
VaradPande |
Live Mint , Wednesday, June 01, 2016 |
In his 1991 budget speech, finance minister Manmohan Singh made an emphatic declaration: “We cannot deforest our way to prosperity and we cannot pollute our way to prosperity”. These were prescient wo ...More
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A boon for soil, and for the environment |
Beth Gardiner |
Deccan Herald , Tuesday, May 31, 2016 |
When Gabe Brown and his wife bought their farm near Bismarck, North Dakota, from her parents in 1991, testing found the soil badly depleted, its carbon down to just a quarter of levels once considered ...More
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