China to ban water-polluting paper mills, oil refineries

BEIJING: China will ban water-polluting paper mills, oil refineries, pesticide producers and other industrial plants by the end of 2016, as it moves to tackle severe pollution of the country's water supply.The long-awaited plan comes as the central government...

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Apple invests in China solar project, US forest conservation

PALO ALTO: Apple is expanding its environmental efforts by investing in a new Chinese solar power project and preserving 36,000 acres of "sustainable'' timberland in Maine and North Carolina.The initiatives come as the tech giant this year met a self-imposed...

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Centre appoints task-force to help build consensus on river inter-linking

NEW DELHI: The Centre has set up a task force to look into various contentious issues relating to inter-linking of rivers. Role of this panel of experts will be to forge a consensus among states that are not on the same page over the plan to link rivers...

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Scientists find a 'deeply' safe way to dispose n-waste

LONDON: Scientists have suggested a new way of safely disposing high-emission nuclear waste -- burying it deep down into the earth. The concept, called deep borehole disposal, has been developed primarily in England but is likely to see its first field...

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Ban on old diesel vehicles may not be enough to clean up Delhi air

NEW DELHI: Banning old diesel vehicles may not be enough to address severe air pollution in Delhi. Other countries have been imposing higher taxes, excise duties and registration costs to discourage people from buying diesel vehicles. They have also...

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Music: Will climate change give us the blues?

VIENNA: Climate change is predicted to intrude into almost every area of life -- from where we live, to what we eat and whom we war with.Now music can be added to the list. That's the unusual idea put forward by British researchers Tuesday, who say the...

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Rajasthan's efforts for greenery commendable: Javadekar

UDAIPUR: Rajasthan would soon be turned into a "green state" with the development of more biological parks such as Sajjangarh, said the Union environment and forest minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday during inauguration of the first biological park...

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China to surpass US as top cause of modern global warming

OSLO: China is poised to overtake the United States as the main cause of man-made global warming since 1990, the benchmark year for U.N.-led action, in a historic shift that may raise pressure on Beijing to act.China's cumulative greenhouse gas emissions...

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GTA introduces eco-friendly cars for tourists in hills

DARJEELING: Aimed at providing better infrastruture to the tourists to the hills, the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) today introduced three battery powered cars.The eco-friendly cars, plying along the most frequented 2-km route from Darjeeling...

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10 air pollution monitoring stations in city exceed national average

BENGALURU: That long wait at the Silk Board junction for the signal is not only delaying you but also slowly killing you, adding pollutants to your lungs. For, the air pollution at the junction on Hosur Road is 146% higher than the national permissible...

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