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Gentle on critical pollution

Submitted by rummykhan on Thu, 2011-06-30 22:17

Jul 15, 2011

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15/07/2011

Over a year ago, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) undertook an exercise to assess pollution levels in some of the highly polluted industrial areas of India. It then released a list of 43 most polluted areas, terming them critically polluted, and imposed a moratorium on their expansion. The aim of the whole effort was to identify areas that required urgent intervention and pollution abatement measures. The exercise proved futile as these areas remain highly polluted and have brought no change in the lives of people living near them.

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Down to Earth

Author:

Ankur Paliwal

Sumana Narayanan

Cuddalore flouts rules

Submitted by rummykhan on Thu, 2011-06-30 22:17

Jul 15, 2011

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15/07/2011

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Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)

State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)

Tamil Nadu

Hazardous Waste

Industrial Pollution

Effluent Disposal Standards

Pollution

Industrial Waste Treatment

Water Pollution

River Pollution

Package POSCO

Submitted by rummykhan on Thu, 2011-06-30 22:06

Jul 15, 2011

Publication Date:

15/07/2011

On the morning of June 13, 2011, Sukhdev Sahoo of Nuagaon in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district woke up in horror. The state administration had demolished his betel farm. The betel vines were in the way of India’s largest foreign direct investment: the US $12 billion POSCO project. Sahoo was threatened: “If you don’t take the compensation money you will lose everything.”

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Down to Earth

Author:

Sayantan Bera

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Compensation

Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)

Forest Rights Act 2006

Climate forcing and desert malaria: the effect of irrigation

Submitted by susan on Thu, 2013-08-01 12:49

Rainfall variability and associated remote sensing indices for vegetation are central to the development of early warning systems for epidemic malaria in arid regions. The considerable change in land-use practices resulting from increasing irrigation in recent decades raises important questions on concomitant change in malaria dynamics and its coupling to climate forcing.

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Malaria Journal

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Teesta deal likely

Submitted by rummykhan on Thu, 2011-07-14 16:53

Jul 14, 2011

Publication Date:

14/07/2011

A protracted negotiation between Dhaka and Delhi on sharing the Teesta river is likely to end soon. The governments are set to sign an interim treaty on sharing the trans-boundary river water for 15 years, until they can strike a long-term agreement.

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A spot of trouble

Submitted by susan on Fri, 2011-07-29 17:18

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By raising hell about newborn blood-spot screening, Twila Brase could jeopardize public-health programmes and derail research. The problem is, she has a point.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110713/full/475156a.html

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No fallout legacy for Japan's farms

Submitted by susan on Fri, 2011-07-29 17:13

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After the Fukushima nuclear disaster spewed radiation across northern Japan in March, some feared that farming there would be shut down for years. But early studies of how the radiation has accumulated in plants and the soil now suggest that farmers in much of the region can go back to work.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110713/full/475154a.html

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Data gaps threaten chemical safety law

Submitted by susan on Fri, 2011-07-29 17:09

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European companies are not providing robust information to regulators or alternatives to animal experiments.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110713/full/475150a.html

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13/07/2011

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Pesticides And Toxins

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There will be blood

Submitted by susan on Fri, 2011-07-29 16:58

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Screening of newborns for genetic disorders is important, but so is educating parents to ensure that they give the proper consent. (Editorial)

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7355/full/475139a.html

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Genetic Disorders

Diagnostic Methods

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Increased soil emissions of potent greenhouse gases under increased atmospheric CO2

Submitted by susan on Fri, 2011-07-29 17:30

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Increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) can affect biotic and abiotic conditions in soil, such as microbial activity and water content. In turn, these changes might be expected to alter the production and consumption of the important greenhouse gases nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4). However, studies on fluxes of N2O and CH4 from soil under increased atmospheric CO2 have not been quantitatively synthesized.

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13/07/2011

Main Topic:

Climate Change

Name of the Journal:

Nature

Author:

Kees Jan van Groenigen

Craig W. Osenberg

Bruce A. Hungate