The united States Geological Survey in its report published in collaboration with 39 international scientists says that glacier throughout the Asia region – Russia, China, Nepal, India, Bhutan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan are retreating. However the report says the time period...
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Driven from its wild ranging West African habitats, the Rothschild giraffe is clearly in peril. Now, its plight has been officially recognized. The world’s largest environment network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has added it to its red list of endangered species. Named after the banker and zoologist...
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Thousands of tonnes of rubbish washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China’s massive Three Gorges dam and is in places so thick that people can stand on it. Chen Lei, a senior official at the China Three Gorges Corporation said that 3,000 tonnes of rubbish was being collected at the dam...
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Almost a quarter of China’s surface water remains so polluted that it is unfit even for industrial use, while less than half of total supplies are drinkable, data from the environment watchdog showed on July 26. Inspectors from China’s Ministry of environmental Protection tested water samples from the country’s major rivers...
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At least 15 percent of the sunderbeans – the world’s largest mangrove forests will be submerged by 2020 and neglecting the area further can have global implications as it is highly venerable to climate change, says a UNDP report. The District Human Development Report (DHDR) of North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and Utter...
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