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Scratched Cat Fever Tigers in dangerous decline in India		25 May 2005	Daily Grist
Scratched Cat Fever Tigers in dangerous decline in India The accelerating disappearance of endangered Bengal tigers from India's 28 tiger reserves has Indian officials and charismatic-megafauna enthusiasts the world over in a tizzy. Poaching of the country's national animal has increased in recent years, as body parts ranging from pelts to, um, members have become valuable commodities in the Chinese medicinal trade. Though India's re ...
Topics: India, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Emission Creep Critics question World Bank's role as carbon trader, fossil-fuel funder	Daphne Wysham	25 Mar 2005	Soapbox
For as long as it's been around, the World Bank has been prone to mission creep. Established 60 years ago to rebuild war-torn Europe, it morphed into an institution whose raison d'etre was to help developing countries advance, then refined its focus on poverty alleviation and sustainable development in the 1980s and '90s. During that time, it took on the role of effectively creatin ...
Topics: Brazil, business, climate, India, pollution and waste, South Africa (all these topics)

Up the Leak Without a Paddle New documents point to Union Carbide culpability on Bhopal		06 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Up the Leak Without a Paddle New documents point to Union Carbide culpability on Bhopal Since the Bhopal disaster in 1984, Union Carbide Corp. (UCC), owner of the leaking chemical plant, has denied responsibility, saying that its Indian subsidiary (Union Carbide India Limited, or UCIL) was solely responsible for the plant's design and management. But newly uncovered documents cast doubt on that claim, indicating that UCC provided ...
Topics: business, India, toxics (all these topics)

Injustice for All On 20th anniversary of Bhopal disaster, justice still eludes victims		30 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Injustice for All On 20th anniversary of Bhopal disaster, justice still eludes victims Thanks to bureaucratic inertia, government corruption, and corporate evasion, the citizens of Bhopal, India -- site of a catastrophic 1984 gas leak that killed some 7,000 people immediately and 15,000 since -- have yet to see justice, says a new report from Amnesty International, released this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the tragedy. Only ...
Topics: health, India, toxics (all these topics)

I'd Like to Buy the Crops a Coke Indian farmers use Coca-Cola as a pesticide		02 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
I'd Like to Buy the Crops a Coke Indian farmers use Coca-Cola as a pesticide Urban legend has it that Coca-Cola works well to remove rust spots, clean corroded batteries, polish toilets, and -- we can confirm this one -- dissolve baby teeth that have fallen out of an innocent 5-year-old's mouth, thus yielding a lifelong terror of soft drinks. But Indian farmers have added another unexpected use to that list: The ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, India (all these topics)

Bhopal Lowball Bhopal disaster victims seek to quadruple compensation		29 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Bhopal Lowball Bhopal disaster victims seek to quadruple compensation Victims of the devastating 1984 industrial gas leak in Bhopal, India, have appealed to the country's Supreme Court to quadruple the amount of compensation they will receive. They have long charged that the Indian government has been slow to distribute funds from a $470 million settlement paid by U.S.-based Union Carbide, owner of the plant, to the Indian governm ...
Topics: India, politics, toxics (all these topics)

A Dam Shame A paddler travels one of India's great rivers before a dam changes it for good	Dan Oko	08 Jun 2004	Main Dish
Except for the occasional palm or banana tree, the Himalayan canyon walls look like those carved by the Salmon River in Idaho: The hillsides are brown and dotted with pine groves, and the boulder-strewn banks of the river give way to stretches of white sand. But this is the Bhagirathi River, half a world away from the Rocky Mountains, and I am on what is billed as the last expedition ...
Topics: dams, energy, India (all these topics)

She's the Bee's Knees Rashida Bee of Bhopal, India, fights against the company that devastated her community	Michelle Nijhuis	19 Apr 2004	Main Dish
Shukla (left) and Bee. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize On the night of December 2, 1984, in the central Indian city of Bhopal, a massive poisonous gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide factory killed 8,000 people. Over the course of 20 years, the infamous disaster has caused an estimated 20,000 deaths, countless birth defects, and a litany of other ser ...
Topics: grassroots activism, health, India, interview, toxics (all these topics)

Prize and Shine Prizes Go to Community Programs Doing Environmental Good		20 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Prize and Shine Prizes Go to Community Programs Doing Environmental Good Competition for the U.N.'s Equator Prize -- rewarded for community initiatives that reduce poverty and preserve environmental health -- was so intense this year that there were seven winners instead of the normal six. The prize, awarded by the Equator Initiative, amounts to $30,000 -- plus a dose of international recognition. An ...
Topics: Africa, green living, India, Tanzania, United Nations (all these topics)

I'd Like to Buy the World a ... Juice?		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
I'd Like to Buy the World a ... Juice? Soft drinks made in India by PepsiCo Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. contain levels of toxic pesticides -- including lindane, DDT, malathion, and chlorpyrifos -- high enough to cause cancer or immune-system failure over time. Such was the conclusion of an Indian parliamentary report released yesterday, confirming similar findings by the Delhi-based Center for Science and ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, health, India, toxics (all these topics)

Vultural Phenomenon Indian Vultures Near Extinction Due to Cattle Painkiller		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Vultural Phenomenon Indian Vultures Near Extinction Due to Cattle Painkiller Three vulture species in India are nearing extinction at an unprecedented rate due to a common painkiller used on cattle in the region. The drug, diclofenac, is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory in the same class as ibuprofen. It has been widely used on humans for decades; it was adopted for veterinary u ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, India, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics)

The Big Disease-y New Controls Needed on Wildlife Trade to Prevent Disease, Scientists Say		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Brazil, business, food and agriculture, globalization, health, India, wildlife (all these topics)

Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ...
Topics: Asia, China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Cold, Hard Kashmir Kashmir Gets an Amusement Park, but Enviros Are Not Amused		08 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Cold, Hard Kashmir Kashmir Gets an Amusement Park, but Enviros Are Not Amused The war-torn Indian province of Kashmir is hardly a place you'd go for amusement -- but now, you can go there for an amusement park. That's right: On Sunday, a private bank unveiled a brand-new amusement park in the town of Pahalgam in the Himalayan foothills, to the delight of many locals, who have been deprived of ordinary entertainment by the ongoing conflic ...
Topics: India, placemaking (all these topics)

Must Have Been Something in the Water India Says Coke, Pepsi Products Safe to Drink		21 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Must Have Been Something in the Water India Says Coke, Pepsi Products Safe to Drink Three weeks after an environmental organization created a furor in India by claiming that soft drinks made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi contained dangerously high levels of pesticides, the nation's government proclaimed the products safe. Health Minister Sushma Swaraj said today that the government had tested the soft drinks cited by the Indian NGO Center for Scienc ...
Topics: India, toxics (all these topics)

The Sperminator A new injection for men could shake up the world of contraceptives	Audrey Schulman	13 Aug 2003	Main Dish
If you plan to have sex anytime soon, let's hope it's not in Niger, Africa. According to the nonprofit organization Save the Children, just 4 percent of couples in Niger have access to birth control. Although the situation in this West African country is extreme, more than 125 million couples worldwide -- most of them in developing countries -- cannot get contraceptives. Some of ...
Topics: business, India, Niger, population (all these topics)

Choke-a-cola? Coke and Pepsi in India Reported to Contain High Pesticide Residues		05 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Choke-a-cola? Coke and Pepsi in India Reported to Contain High Pesticide Residues A dozen varieties of soft drinks sold by Coca-Cola and Pepsi in Delhi, India, contain "dangerously high" levels of pesticide residues, according to tests conducted by the Center for Science and Environment, a Delhi-based nonprofit. CSE accused the companies of drawing their so ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, health, India, toxics (all these topics)

Beauty and the Beasts		23 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Beauty and the Beasts India's tigers may be threatened by, of all things, rising demand for cosmetics. The growing market for talcum powder -- widely used in lipsticks, eye shadows, deodorants, and other such products -- is leading to the destruction of tiger habitat by illegal mining operations that sell talc to international cosmetics companies, including Revlon, Johnson & Joh ...
Topics: deforestation, India, logging, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Anti-Pepsi Generation		23 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Anti-Pepsi Generation Leaders of two rural communities in Kerala, a state in southwestern India, are going head-to-head with Coca-Cola and Pepsi, accusing the companies' local bottling plants of depleting groundwater and triggering shortages. One village government revoked the water-use permit of a Pepsi plant last week, and another village denied a license renewal to a Coke plant last month, though its ...
Topics: business, green living, India, renewable energy (all these topics)

We Don't Cotton to This Idea		05 May 2003	Daily Grist
We Don't Cotton to This Idea Farmers in India are harvesting the nation's first approved biotech cotton crop, a development that has environmentalists and some nationalists nervous. About 55,000 growers, an estimated 2 percent of India's cotton farmers, have planted Monsanto's Bollgard cotton seed, genetically engineered with the Bt bacterium to be resistant to the bollworm, a troublesome cotton pest. The crop should allo ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, India (all these topics)

Gone With the Flow		30 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gone With the Flow The Khasi Hills of northeastern India are one of the wettest places on Earth, typically experiencing torrential rains throughout the monsoon season and laying claim to the world record of 1,000 inches of rainfall in just one year. Now, though, the Khasi Hills are drying up due to environmental changes wrought by pollution, deforestation, the development of in ...
Topics: air pollution, deforestation, India, land degradation, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Well Done		28 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Well Done With many makeshift wells in New Delhi, India, running dry, and many more in danger of following suit, citizens are turning to an old-fashioned solution: rainwater harvesting. Five pilot projects in the city have successfully tested out an inexpensive system for collecting monsoon rainwater and directing it underground to replenish over-tapped aquifers. New Delhi officials have become enthusiastic ch ...
Topics: India, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Battle Dreary		14 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Battle Dreary Kashmir, once renowned for its lush landscape and abundant wildlife, has for decades served as a battle zone between India and Pakistan, and all the turmoil has taken a heavy toll on the region's environment as well as its people. "Cross-border bombardment is damaging the forests and wildlife beyond imagination," said Farooq A. Niazi, head of the Jammu Kashmir Human Rights Movement. And illegal logging is ...
Topics: India, Pakistan, wildlife (all these topics)

The Fire Down Below		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Fire Down Below Forget about car emissions for a moment; coal fires, hundreds of which are raging out of control around the world, pump so much carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere that researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science yesterday called them a "global catastrophe." Coal fires burn both ...
Topics: China, Colorado, energy, India, Indonesia, Pennsylvania, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Sub-way Continent		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Sub-way Continent If ever there were a city that needed a good subway system, it is New Delhi, India, one of the world's most populous (14 million) and most crowded metropolises. Now the city's got just that, and everyone, from residents to foreigners, is amazed and thrilled by its success. Although the entire 62-mile, 90-station subway system won't be complete until the end of the decade, the first part opene ...
Topics: business, India, placemaking, population (all these topics)

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