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Carbon-Intensive Investors Risk $6 Trillion
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India aims to double its renewable energy capacity to 55000 megawatts by 2017, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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Vandana Shiva: Maharashtra's water is going to sugar and grape barons
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LOS ANGELES: The Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower and the Kremlin -- along with a slew of other landmarks around the world -- went dark Saturday to draw attention to climate change.
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NEW DELHI: Violations of green norms and clearances can be appealed against by any citizen and not just someone directly or indirectly affected by a project, the National Green Tribunal has held, widening the scope of green litigation in the country.
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MEXICO CITY: Global investment in clean energy climbed to a record $250 billion last year despite adverse worldwide economic conditions, the president of the International Solar Energy Society said in an interview in Mexico.
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WASHINGTON: A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike.
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Millions of people in western India are suffering their worst drought in more than four decades, with critics blaming official ineptitude and corruption for exacerbating the natural water shortage.
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CARTERTON, New Zealand: Dairy farmer John Rose has sent more than 100 of his cows to the slaughterhouse over recent weeks as a severe drought browned pastures in New Zealand's normally verdant North Island.
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Obama seeks $2 billion in research on cleaner fuels
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Vandana Shiva: Maharashtra's water is going to sugar and grape barons
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The quality of water supply in southern Beijing has been improving in recent years, an official said.
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The responsibility of cleaning and maintenance of 12 ghats located along the Ganga will be given to seven NGOs, a senior official said.
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The Gujarat government on Tuesday tabled an irrigation Bill in the Assembly which seeks to make it compulsory for farmers to get a licence to draw water from canal or ground well beyond a certain limit and prescribes penal action, including imprisonment, against the errant farmers.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — An amount of freshwater almost the size of the Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle East due to poor management, increased demands for groundwater and the effects of a 2007 drought, according to a NASA study. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/NASA-Alarming-water-loss-in-Middle-East-4272320.php#ixzz2M40QJACC
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CHANDIGARH: The SAD-BJP government's claims about attracting over a lakh crore rupees of investment in Punjab have been proven hollow, evidently by their own admission. Not just are the bigger industries moving out, but Punjab is among the worst performing states in the country when it comes to checking water pollution. The state is among the worst defaulters in the country with at least seven grossly polluting industrial units dumping their toxic waste directly in the rivers and lakes.
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WASHINGTON: Scientists are wiring oceans to track the movements of deep sea creatures that could help protect marine ecosystems by revolutionizing how we understand their function, population structure, fisheries management and species' physiological and evolutionary constraints.
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WASHINGTON: Analysis of data from a pair of gravity-measuring Nasa satellites has revealed that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.
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Despite repeated circulars and review meetings by sugar commissioner, air and water pollution by the sugar factories continue to remain unchecked in Pune division. In fact, as compared to 2011, the number of factories penalised by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) doubled in 2012.
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CHANDIGARH: The SAD-BJP government's claims about attracting over a lakh crore rupees of investment in Punjab have been proven hollow, evidently by their own admission. Not just are the bigger industries moving out, but Punjab is among the worst performing states in the country when it comes to checking water pollution. The state is among the worst defaulters in the country with at least seven grossly polluting industrial units dumping their toxic waste directly in the rivers and lakes.
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