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Plague creates panic in India

... died on February 4 after he had gone hunting in a forest last month and had been possibly infected by a wild rat. The highly contagious disease later killed three of his relatives. Twelve more infected people from the same village were being treated at nearby hospitals. Thakur said about 8000 people in t...

Air Pollution Can Cause Heart Attack

...combustion of fuel//, including coal and also from forest fires, reports science portal EurekAlert. Evidence shows that both short- and long-term exposure to these particulates is associated with death from cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, and more specifically from myocardial infarction, it says....

Bhitarkanika Sanctuary In Orissa Takes Precaution To Monitor Bird Flu

...ary measures. According to A.K. Jena, divisional forest officer of Bhitarkanika, a team of ornithologists ...sell the meat to roadside hotels and eateries. The forest department has warned people not to partake of bird meat. Mr. Hemanth Sharma, District Collector, S...

Bird flu threat ruled out: Karnataka Forest Department

...uestion of any birds coming in from outside. "The forest department is, however, totally geared up to meet the threat of bird flu from migratory birds like the bar-headed geese from China which are likely to arrive in the state in a fortnight," he said. The issue will be discussed in detail during a speci...

Bird Flu Alert Sounded In Tamil Nadu

...of Tamil Nadu has raised reasons for concern among forest health officials regarding the possibility // of a...the health of young children in particular. The forest officials have requested the local farmers to restrict any form of contact that may occur between do...

Health Problems Due To Ecosystem's Degradation

... through pigs in Malaysia is reported to be due to forest clearance activities in Indonesia, driving the car...atterns due to climate-induced habitat changes and forest clearance. Disasters like landslides and floods are linked to deforestation. Some of the regions t...

Nine National Birds found dead in Tamil Nadu-Kerala Border

...nd dead near a farm at K G Chavadi//, according to forest department sources. A special team from the department was deputed to hold first level investigations into the death of the birds. Post mortem was conducted on the dead birds, but the tests have ruled out any bird flu infection. Tests were parallely...

Global Seagrass Decline Affects Shallow-water Ecosystems

...issue,” he says. Short likens seagrass beds to a forest on the ocean floor. Among the most productive plant communities on the planet, seagrass beds serve as protective nurseries for juvenile fish and shellfish, a habitat for many marine species, and a feeding ground for predatory fish, waterfowl and larg...

Will The Tropical Forests Survive The Deforestation Scenario?

...n. This has resulted in complete extinction of the forest species. Humans in rural settings contribute most ...tion and result in mass extinction of the tropical forest species says S.J. Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and H.C. Muller-Landau, University...

Ticks like Sunny Weather

... examine the skin and clothing after a walk in the forest or backyard....

Diclofenac Drug Banned By MP Government Over Vulture Deaths

... the drug. The central government has selected a forest sanctuary at Bhopal under its vulture augmentation scheme, which would be executed by the Van Vihar (forest department), Bhopal. "Besides, the Ratapani, Singhori and Narsingharh sanctuaries, where 170 vultures have been found, would also be made b...

Origin of HIV Traced To Wild Chimps

... sample collected// from the chimpanzee found from forest floors in Africa. They collected 599 fecal samples from 10 forest sites. They found that the simian immunodeficiency virus which affects the chimpanzees had a close r...

Growth Of Maple Trees Affected By Acid Rain

...y human activity, said Timothy Fahey, professor of forest ecology at Cornell and co-author of the study, which is published in the May issue of Ecology. Juice wrote the main part of the paper as part of her senior thesis. ‘The research addresses how a long-term, human-caused change in the environment is a...

Satellite Imagery to monitor the Social Impact Of Geographical Changes

...se for the landscape changes. He said the Atlantic forest is more of a biodiversity hot spot than the more famous Amazon forest. He said the forest is rapidly disappearing because people need the land. According to Goodin, remote sensing technolog...

Ecological Changes affects human health, food security

...se for the landscape changes. He said the Atlantic forest is more of a biodiversity hot spot than the more famous Amazon forest. He said the forest is rapidly disappearing because people need the land. According to Goodin, remote sensing technolo...

Malaria a 'Near-Epidemic' in Dooars, says RSP Legislator

...ct administration". It was mostly tea gardens and forest areas in the Dooars, that were affected by a virulent form of malaria and the affected got "very little" medical attention, he alleged. Claiming that the incidence of malarial attacks was much higher than last year, he said there was a dearth of med...

Higher Health Cost Due to Forest Fires

...conomic impact of air quality changes arising from forest fires, human health risks were found to be second only to timber losses in terms// of dollars and cents. In the study published in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, researchers from University of Alberta in Edmonton found the increases in hu...

Burning fires in Northern Ontario Cause Hundreds to leave their Homes

Raging forest fires have forced over 1,300 people to leave their...firefighters continued to battle// the hundreds of forest fires on Friday. According to Ontario fire officials the situation is the worst that they have ever ...

Breast Feeding - The Key in Fighting Child Mortality in Africa

...period of 12 months in 2003-04 in Brong Ahafo, the forest savannah region of central Ghana. Of these nearly 8,000 were breast-fed from the first day, and all but 70 lived through their first month. Those breast fed within the first hour were found to have a less than one in 150 risk of dying. But of the oth...

Forest Fire Affects Singapore's Air Quality

...ange as a thick smoky haze from Indonesia's raging forest fires blanketed the city-state.// 'People should stay indoors,' said a spokesperson answering the National Environment Agency's (NEA's) hotline, with the Pollutants Standard Index (PSI) reading 130 at mid-morning and 115 Saturday The all-time high ...

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