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Project disaster

A natural gas pipeline which is expected to wind its way through a forest area in western Thailand could jeopardise 14 protected areas and the world s smallest known mammal

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Role reversal

stroke victims will now have better chances of survival. In a pathbreaking experiment, doctors from ucla Medical Centre, California, have developed a technique that reverses the plumbing of

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Woodstock worries

A recent ban on all forest activities in the north east should provide alternatives to workers in this sector

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Whale of a mouth

John Heyning and James Mead from the American National Museum of Natural History in Washington, US, have analysed the eating habits of whales. They found that the female beaked whales or Ziphiidae

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Drained dry...

...are the local wetlands in Assam on account of short sighted flood control measures and unsavoury fishing practices

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Development woes

large dams have resulted in grave environmental and social repercussions worldwide. Representatives from orga

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The nuke bazaar calls

An open nuclear industry would hardly indicate that India has achieved desired safety levels

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Mercurial exhalations

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ornl) researchers in the US have theorised that mercury in soil gas is absorbed by plants when the plants ' mercury level is low. But when their mercury level rises

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Beguiling beels

Beels are shallow waterbodies with rich macrophytic vegetation. The recent satellite survey undertaken by the Assam Remote Sensing Application Centre, shows that there are as many as 3,536 wetlands

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Rescue call

the world wide Fund for Nature (wwf) made a strong plea for the conservation and restoration of wetlands throughout the world on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day on February 1. Despite

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