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Chilean Lake Disappears, Thanks to Global Warming

...t was a crater and a few strands of floating ice.A river running from it had also reduced to a trickle, according to the park rangers of the southernmost region of Magallanes. The lake had simply disappeared,' said Juan Jose Romero, regional director of Chiles National Forest Service. No one knows wha...

Ships to the Rescue of Medically Deprived Assamese

... medical care by ship to the remote islands of the river Brahmaputra. The Centre for North East Studies a...naz, C-NES is conducting camps free of cost in the river islands in Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Dhemaji districts of the state. "We started with Dibrugarh in 2...

Spicy Cuisine Originated in Mexico 1,500 Years Ago

... areas for farmers from Mitla, a major town on the river of the same name, whose cultivated fields evidently extended to the slopes of the piedmont below Guila Naquitz and Silvia's Cave. "In the cave deposits, we can see excellent documentation for the sophistication of the agriculture and the cuisine a...

MEN as Partners to MEND Maternal Health A World Population Day Initiative

...man allegedly threw his six year old daughter in a river with a motive to kill; the little girl was battling a kidney ailment for 3 years. The father of six children was burdened with medical expenses and many mouths to feed. He thought it best to end his problem by drowning the expensive child. The situat...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...ll revere the river, understands perfectly why the river is dirty. "Once you could look 20 feet (six metr...he eighties the population started growing and the river became dirty." More people means more waste, and all of Delhi's three and a half billion litres (9...

500 Pound Man Rescued After 12 Hour Ordeal From Wisconsin River

...ike developed symptoms of heart attack when in the river and he was rescued by dozens of rescue workers wh...afting down the river. They were floating down the river on the Minnesota border in inner tubes Monday afternoon when Rike's hit a rock and deflated. While h...

Desalination of Sea is Not a Solution to Tackle Global Water Scarcity: WWF

...gy would increase emissions and damage coastal and river habitats, greater emphasis on managing existing supplies should be given before the go-ahead is given to major water projects. New desalination plants, which are primarily located in coastal areas, should also be subject to tighter impact assessmen...

River Blindness Becoming Drug Resistant

...years of independence this year, the fight against river blindness there also marks its half century. The ...e still infected with onchocerciasis (the cause of river blindness) in 30 countries in Africa. Eleven countries are located in the Onchocerciasis Control Pro...

China's Three Gorges Dam Changing Local Weather: Scientists

...ost 4,000 miles, the Yangtze is the fourth longest river in the world, discharging into the sea about twice the water of the Mississippi. For as long as people have kept records, the Yangtze has been in the habit of periodically overflowing its banks and flooding vast areas. Controlling that ancient threat...

Desert Droughts Shorten Mountain Snow Cover, Reveals Study

...ming climate and the dust it generates will affect river run-off and soil moisture in the mountains, not only in the Western United States but across many of the worlds mountains, Painter added. The findings appear online in the June 23 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters....

Kidney Donor Alleges Fraud by Doctors

...ospitals in the state. Located on the banks of the river Musi, the hospital was built in 1925 by Mir Osman Ali Khan, the then ruler of Hyderabad State....

ISRO Chief Concerned About River Pollution

... India's space programme says the pollution of the river Yamuna is a major problem. "Nobody feels like going to the river these days. It was possible some years ago," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. ...

Water Quality At Western Yamuna Canal Meets The Desired Water Quality Standards

...s on a regular basis. To abate pollution in the river Yamuna, Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) Phase-I has been implemented at an estimated cost of Rs. 715 crores. 15 towns have been covered under YAP-I. A total of 269 Schemes of pollution abatement were completed including 38 sewage treatment plants having tre...

Sewage Flows into Hudson River in a Torrent

The Hudson river is in the news again, for all the wrong reasons. ...7.5 million gallons of raw sewage that reached the river after a main broke Friday afternoon. The biggest immediate health concern would be for anyone comi...

Green Campaigners Concerned About Yamuna's Shrinking Floodplains

...ndia are worried, as the floodplains of the Yamuna river are being converted into shopping malls, residenti...mes. This will further choke the highly polluted river and spell danger for the city's water security, they warn. To build awareness, a programme is bein...

Ganges River Dolphins Continue to Die in India

They are known as sons of the river but the endangered dolphins in the Ganges continue...uary. The sanctuary is spread over a 50-km area of river Ganges and was set up nearly a decade ago. Wildlife experts say that most dolphins die after getti...

Ice Age in Europe Dried Up West African Monsoons

...ea. Barium is found in freshwater run-off from the river Niger, and is a gauge of past run-off levels and monsoon intensities. The researchers found that when the northern latitudes were frozen over, monsoon rains were much weaker, only gaining strength again when the temperatures in the north increased...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...experience in 1992 at Haridwar on the banks of the river Ganges. While attending a funeral in the northern ...se was finally flung into the Ganges. "This is the river whose water we bring home for praying," said Agarwal, referring to the belief that the river confers...

Australia Battles Oil Slick on Yarra River

...rra. The slick stretches along a section of the river that flows through Yarra Bend Park, a popular recr.... An absorption boom has been placed across the river upstream of Dights Falls to soak up the slick, and no wildlife have been injured so far. He said ...

Enticing Doctors to Rural Community an Uphill Task

...ept that it isn't. Prospects of cruising along the river Murray, sipping at wineries and feasting //at local gourmet restaurants are being used to lure doctors to the country towns of Albury and Wodonga, in Victoria, Australia. These treats are welcome to doctors and their families for free- just to chec...

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