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Security environment more difficult: Narayanan (Central Chronicle)

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Agencies Kolkata, Mar.

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Security environment more difficult: Narayanan (Central Chronicle)

China environment worsening, may miss energy goals (AFP via Yahoo! News)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:26:40 +0000

China’s environment is “still deteriorating”, a senior official said Wednesday, as the booming nation burnt record amounts of coal and lagged behind in meeting its energy-saving goals.

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China environment worsening, may miss energy goals (AFP via Yahoo! News)

China environment worsening, could miss energy goals (AFP via Yahoo! News)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:56:58 +0000

China’s environment is “still deteriorating”, a senior official said Wednesday, as the booming nation burnt record amounts of coal and lagged behind in meeting its energy-saving goals.

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Indonesian companies urged to balance power demand, environment sustainability (People’s Daily)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:36:57 +0000

Indonesian energy companies need to balance people’s demand of energy and environment sustainability to create a better life, a top commissioner said on Wednesday. Hilmi Panigoro, the President Commissioner of PT Medco Energi International Tbk, the country’s largest private energy company, said that demand of energy in the last 10 years has been resulting in massive deforestation and damaging …

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Indonesian companies urged to balance power demand, environment sustainability (People’s Daily)

Duck deaths reported annually on Alberta tailings pond, environment officer says (Canada.com)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:18:18 +0000

The Syncrude tailings pond in northern Alberta — where hundreds of ducks died after landing on the bitumen-covered body of water — violates a federal law designed to protect migratory birds, an Environment Canada officer told an Alberta court Tuesday.

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Duck deaths reported annually on Alberta tailings pond, environment officer says (Canada.com)

Security environment more difficult: Narayanan (The Hindu)

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:45:04 +0000

KOLKATA: The security environment in West Bengal has become more difficult than the past year and meeting the challenge would require, among other things, filling vacancies in the police force, improving the police-population ratio, acquiring more sophisticated weapons, imparting better training and providing more incentives for working in difficult areas, Governor M.K. Narayanan told the …

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Environment Ministry seeks to stem disappearance of farmland under new development (Radio Prague)

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:51:07 +0000

Agricultural land is fast disappearing under concrete in the Czech Republic and the pace is getting faster rather than slowing down.

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Environment Ministry seeks to stem disappearance of farmland under new development (Radio Prague)

Monitor -ing the Environment (Columbia Journalism Review)

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:48:00 +0000

In recent years, blogs have become a popular way for newspapers (in print and online) to handle specialized topics like science and the environment. At least one outlet has tried that and decided to go back to a newsroom-wide approach, however.

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BCA Academy to offer postgrad programme in facility & environment management (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News)

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:18:37 +0000

SINGAPORE: The BCA Academy will offer a new postgraduate programme in facility and environment management.

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BCA Academy to offer postgrad programme in facility & environment management (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News)

Four Environment Groups Sue European Commission Over Biofuels (Bloomberg)

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:23:58 +0000

March 9 (Bloomberg) — Four environment groups sued the European Commission over its alleged refusal to release about 140 documents on the climate impact of widespread use of biofuels in the region.

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Four Environment Groups Sue European Commission Over Biofuels (Bloomberg)