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Fears For Isolated Bolivian Tribe Met By Chinese Oil Firm In Amazon

Teams from a Chinese oil and gas company exploring in the remote Bolivian Amazon have reportedly had near encounters with a group of indigenous people living in what the Un...

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Environment

Documentary Film-Makers Face Decades In Prison For Taping Oil Pipeline Protests

Two documentary film-makers are facing decades in prison for recording US oil pipeline protests, with serious felony charges that first amendment advocates say are part of ...

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Environment

Delay To Curbs On Toxic Shipping Emissions 'Would Cause 200,000 Extra Premature Deaths

A push by the shipping and oil industries for a five-year delay to curbs on toxic sulphur emissions would cause an extra 200,000 premature deaths from lung cancer and heart...

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Environment

How Big Oil Taught Big Tobacco To Bend Science

Over the past year, revelations about what the giants of the US petroleum industry knew decades ago about climate change have had a familiar ring to them.
Several obse...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Rule Of King

Stephen King who is known for his horror novels and thrillers, wrote a detective novel called Mr Mercedes, and then wrote two more with the same characters turning...

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The Inspiring Story of How Sikkim Became India’s Cleanest State

This record was reiterated in the recently conducted Swachhta (cleanliness) survey undertaken by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) on the condition of sanitation in ...

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Sustainable Development

District Collectors Software Solution Helps Farmers Control Urea Use

The district administration of Visakhapatnam is working on a software-based solution to regulate the excessive amount of urea used by farmers. Earlier this year, District C...

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Human Rights

Country's First Accessibility Audit Fails To Find A Single Disabled Friendly Building

India's first accessibility audit of buildings and public places has not found a single completely disabled-friendly building, exposing terrible plight of people with disab...

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Environment

California's Key Climate Change Program Aims For New Life

In advance of a political showdown in the state Legislature, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration made its first formal effort Tuesday to extend the life of the program ...

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Sustainable Development

Maharashtra Approves Rs 40.50 Crore Programme Of Distribution Of Soil Health Card

Summary: For the year 2016-17, the Centre and the state to spend over Rs 40.50 crore to distribute the soil health cards. "The Soil Health Card will empower the farmers wit...

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