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Emissions policy may aid Sakhalin-Japan gas line

Plans to build a natural-gas pipeline between Russia's Sakhalin Island and Japan's mainland could take giant strides forward amid continuing pressure on Japanese power generators to shift from coal

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24/04/1998
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Green Belt buckles under DVB's flyash

Delhi Vidyut Board has cynically vandalised some 70 acres of land that has been earmarked as a Green Belt around Apollo Hospital on Mathura Road near Sarita Vihar. With scant concern for the

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Forests totter on verge of extinction as Borneo prays for life-giving rains

The tropical forests' brilliant greens have given way to soft reds and pale yellows, making Bukit Suharto National Park look like autumn in New England. But this is not fall foliage on the quator.

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Pentagon cyber-hackers creep into Nasa system

An international group of computer hackers who successfully broke into the telecommunications backbone of the US military said on Wednesday that they had also stolen key software programmes from

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Rub vitamins on skin to slow, erase wrinkles

Applying anti-oxidant vitamins directly to the skin can slow the formation of new wrinkles and erase, to some extent, existing wrinkles and lines, according to a study made public on Thursday. The

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- U.S. N-weapons cost $35 billion

Even after the cold war, the US nuclear weapons programme costs $ 35.1 billion annually- to maintain the nuclear weapons and to clean up its human and environmental after effects, a liberal-think

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24/04/1998
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Govt told to implement Sen Gupta panel report

A Kerala State Assembly Committee on Environment has expressed concern over the extent to which the immediate environs of Grasim Industries, Mavoor, near Kozhikode, have come to be polluted by it and

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Its their climate, too

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24/04/1998

Secretary of state Madeleine Albright announced a diplomatic full court press to encourage developing nations to help avert the danger of climate change. A first, charitable reaction might be to ask

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NASA's commercial remote sensing program aids in highway planning

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24/04/1998

The Commericial Remote Sensing Program at NASA's Stennis Space Center, MS, recently applied its comprehensive remote sensing capabilities to highway routing plans for the Mississippi Department of

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Govt losing battle against kala-azar

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24/04/1998

A large population from Terai have come under the threat of kala-azar, a disease spread by sand fly. About 5.5 million people, most of them from the Terai districts sharing border with Bihar state of

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