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Environment

The Ice Is Breaking: The Famed Winter Chadar Trek In Ladakh

The famed winter Chadar trek in Ladakh is drawing increasing hordes of adventurers every year. At what cost? Tundup Wangail still remembers the first time he set foot on th...

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Hollywood

Robert Patrick Brings Cheer To Hillsides Children With Toy Run

Actor Robert Patrick of the CBS show “Scorpion” and some 125 fellow riders from the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club Chapter 101 and other local motorcycle clubs t...

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Hollywood

Bruce Willis, Demi Moore Donate Theater To Acting Company

Actor Bruce Willis and ex-wife Demi Moore have donated the Liberty Theatre in downtown Hailey, Idaho, to a local theater troupe. The gift from the stars gives the Company o...

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Environment

Villagers Say They Lost Their Lands As Yamuna Changed Course

It used to be an almost 2-kilometre-long walk to the water, said Nakshatra Nagar as he pointed to the Yamuna river flowing right next to his village, Kambakshpur. Over the ...

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Environment

Humans Have Been Causing Environmental Disasters For 7,000 Years

Humans have always had a tendency to view bodies of water as giant dumpsters. You put the gook and trash in and then it magically disappears—or floats someplace else ...

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Gender

How A 105-Year-Old Ended Open Defecation In Her Village

On Tuesday, Dhamtari became the first district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh to be declared free from open defecation. And the credit for that is being given ...

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Environment

We Can Save Elephants. But Can We Save Wild Elephants?

I have just returned from Kenya’s North Eastern Province where one night, camped out in a dry riverbed with just a mosquito net for cover, a herd of elephants emerged...

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Environment

Brazil’s Sweet River Still Runs Orange Seven Months After A Massive Mining Spill

The millions of liters of waste — a volume roughly equal to the capacity of the Hoover Dam — that gushed out of the Fundão mining dam on November 5 last ...

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Environment

A River Comes To The People

Nanduwali In East Rajasthan Started Flowing Again When The Villagers Decided To Work With Nature And Not Against It. The River Is Now Lifeline To Those Settled On Her Banks...

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Sustainable Development

7 Great Techniques By Which You Can Easily Harvest Rainwater At Your Home This Monsoon

Did you know that if Bangalore manages to recharge even 30% of the rainwater it gets, it will have more that what the Cauvery River is supplying currently to the city, whil...

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