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Kolkata, Mumbai to Face Maximum Brunt of Climate Change

...rst sufferer among Indian cities with flash rains, floods and fall in water tables as well as water conserva...r fewer days, which implies increased frequency of floods during the monsoon, will also result in loss of the rainwater. The direct runoff of water would redu...

Asian Business Executives Urged to Be Eco-friendly

...uels. "We are seeing rising waters, droughts and floods chasing each other and diseases," Steiner said. "It can never be too late" to tackle the environmental concerns. A regulatory framework is needed, Stiner said. Among the companies with an eco-friendly product is lighting maker Osram, a wholly ow...

Delivering the Green Message to Children

...he North Pole or the South Pole melt, there can be floods in Kolkata and Mumbai, where their relatives and favourite Bollywood actors will have a lot of trouble," Nariman stressed. Young students take keen interest in the environmental issues facing India, like the desertification, rising levels of pollut...

Hurricane Katrina Still Wrecking Lives - More So With Blacks

...on became a cause for public debate when Katrina's floods displaced countless black families.Many considered the federal and state governments' neglect of area levees and lack of evacuation plans a racial issue because blacks tended to live in areas at risk of flooding. As per the Kaiser survey, the dispa...

Nature Unleashes Terror Across America

... Jefferson City, was preparing for flooding. After floods in 1993 and 1995, the city raised the elevation of its riverside sewage treatment plant, and the federal government bought out scores of homes on the north shore of the river, but the airport and businesses are still vulnerable. On the West Coast,...

UN Report Warns of 'environmental Refugees'

...or within urban areas," says the report. "Severe floods in the Yangtze Basin in 1998 and 2002, caused by a combination of climate variability and human-induced land-cover changes, displaced millions of people, mainly subsistence farmers and villagers," it says. "Similar examples can be seen in India, Me...

Plastic Ban in Guwahati to Ease Flooding

...ouses on hills. "If we are to save Guwahati from floods and water logging we must enforce the draft master plan and take steps to prevent the hills being used for dwellings. Those who have been staying in the hills for the last 15 years would not be affected," the minister said....

Diarrhoea Claims Three Lives in Flood-hit Orissa

...om the disease in Orissa's Balasore district where floods have played havoc, officials said Saturday . The ...depression over the Bay of Bengal had led to flash floods in at least 11 of the state's 30 districts. At least 30 people were killed and over one and half mil...

Rats Back on the Menu in Southern China

...349 people in China. Officials in Hunan -- where floods have sparked a plague of two billion rats after water submerged their holes -- denied the newspaper's undercover report. One official quoted by the Beijing Times on Sunday dismissed the report, saying it was far too difficult to catch rats alive, w...

Ships to the Rescue of Medically Deprived Assamese

...zarika said. "Reaching these villages during the floods is another major challenge," he added. Despite all the hindrances, the project has been well received by the people. Now, C-NES is planning to launch another two ships to extend the services further. Akha alone has reached about 5,000 people includ...

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