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Students' Wind- and Solar-Powered Bike Helmet Charges Gadgets While Protecting Riders
Pragnesh Dudhaiya and Aalok Bhatt study engineering at Nirma University in Ahmedabad, India, though a helmet they recently invented may make them the latest green entrepreneurs. When the two students heard about a 'green
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Oil Spill Causes Thousands of Turtle Eggs Not to Hatch... Not in the Gulf of Mexico
Though at the time a month ago it went largely unmentioned in the world press, there being other disasters occurring at the time, an oil spill off the coast of the Indian state of Orissa has had a pretty bad impact on
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Indian State of Sikkim's Farms to be Entirely Organic by 2015
Nestled in between Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan the small Indian state of Sikkim is probably best known for its mountainous beauty and as being home to the red panda, but by 2015 it's going to have another notable
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African Cheetahs to be Introduced Into India in Three Years
More on the ongoing efforts to re-establish the cheetah in India: The Hindu reports that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, just returned from a survey trip to a South African cheetah research center, has
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Largest Developing Nations Want 2011 Deadline for Legally Binding Climate Treaty
In what seems like a case of unintentionally perfect timing, the BASIC bloc of nations (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China), meeting in Cape Town, have issued a joint statement saying that a legally binding climate treaty
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Texts or Toilets? More People In India Have Access to Cell Phones than Bathrooms
We know that access to cell phones is skyrocketing in developing nations, with areas in India and Africa simply leapfrogging from no phones to cell phones and skipping land lines altogether. It's a shift from no
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GM Investigating Frost-Tolerant Jatropha For US Market - Partners With Indian Research Co. & DoE
We haven't heard much about jatropha biofuels lately, perhaps partly because in the sub-tropical and tropical plant doesn't survive even a nip of frost, making it less attractive in
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Asia's Biggest Plastics Scrap Market Set on Fire, Entire Facility Burned
In Mundaka, an area west of Delhi, India, the largest plastics scrap market in Asia was set on fire. The entire area, about 4 kilometers, burned and goods worth Rs 50 crore were lost to the flames. The fire appears to
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Excess Weight, Slow Charging Pulls Delhi's Solar-Powered Rickshaws Off The Road
It was a pretty short run for Delhi's solar power rickshaws. After debuting almost eighteen months ago, the electric-assist vehicles have been rejected by their drivers ('pullers'
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India's New Coal Tax to Raise $660 Million For Clean Energy in 2010
India may use a heck of a lot of coal today (and no doubt would use tons more of it if its per capita energy use was anything like that of Europe or the United States) but as Revolt points out a new tax to be levied on coal
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One Talented Chef Gives Up His Lucrative Career To Feed the Forgotten in India
If you're tired of turning on the news just to find another heart wrenching tale of despair, look no further. A recent story on CNN told the tale of Narayanan Krishnan, a former chef in a five
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India and Pakistan Duke It Out Over Water At Annual Meeting
Every year, India and Pakistan sit down to talk about and decide on water use from the shared Indus basin. But as we know, the water use in India is skyrocketing while the availability is quickly diminishing. In fact,
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Today's News on Planet 100: Disppearing Islands, Mountaintop Removal, and Earth Hour Recap
Disappearing Islands Island Disappears An ongoing dispute between India and Bangladesh over a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal has been solved by global warming. Jadavpur University in Calcutta has documented that New Moore
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Asian Monsoon Pumps Air Pollution Into Stratosphere, Helps Spread Throughout the Globe
We've known for some time that air pollution created in Asia--largely because of fast expanding economic activity fueled by coal--spreads far and wide, even reaching the shores of the United States. Well, new research
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Himalayan Glaciers Shrank 16% in Past 50 Years: Indian Space Research Org.
In the wake of this year's reassessment of the speed with which Himalayan glaciers are melting, and what year most of them might be gone, the Indian Space Research Organisation has released some new data showing that
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Climate Change 'Solves' Political Dispute As Bay of Bengal Island Vanishes Under Rising Seas
A nearly three-decade-old political dispute in the Bay of Bengal seems to have finally been resolved, though likely not in the way any of the parties
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India Backs Copenhagen Accord - Last Major Emitter To Do So
India, the world's last major emitter to formally back the Copenhagen Accord, has done so. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the decision reflected India's contributions in shaping the Accord. Ramesh went on to
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Rainforest Alliance Announces Certified Seal to Appear on Tetley Tea
It's hard for me to believe, but it was just less than a year ago when I went on my wonderful trip to Kericho, Kenya to see the Lipton tea estates there. The Rainforest Alliance was working with Lipton to have all of their tea production certified
