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April
22 , 2009
More efforts nee=
ded
to save wetland systems
CHENNAI:
Scientists and research institutions need to collaborate more closely to ev=
olve
new strategies for sustainable utilisation of wetland ecosystems, Beth
Middleton, research ecologist with the National Wetlands Research Centre,
Lafayette, Louisiana, US, said on Tuesday.
http:=
//www.hindu.com/2009/04/22/stories/2009042260530700.htm
Contestants urge=
d to
solve pollution issue
KARUR:
Taking a dig at the politicians and elected representatives, speakers at a
meeting of people’s organizations and farmers held here recently call=
ed
upon contestants to the Lok Sabha elections from Karur district to offer
issue-based solutions and promise efforts to permanently solve the pollution
plaguing the townsmen.
http:=
//www.hindu.com/2009/04/22/stories/2009042257260200.htm
Adopt modern
scientific fish farming techniques
THANJAVUR:
A seminar on profitable fish farming was jointly organised by Americal Soya=
bean
Association Marketing (ASA-IM), Sustainable Research Foundation, Maanal Fish
Farm and Everest Aqua Tech at Orathanadu, 20 km from here on Monday.
http:=
//www.hindu.com/2009/04/22/stories/2009042257340300.htm
Pre-kharif campaign to be only interactive
ADILABAD:
Adilabad Collector Ahmad Nadeem on Tuesday cautioned the Agriculture Depart=
ment
officials to desist from election of beneficiaries or announce any benefits=
to
farmers during the pre-kharif campaign to be taken up between April 27 and =
May
10.
http:=
//www.hindu.com/2009/04/22/stories/2009042251630300.htm
NREGS biggest
achievement of UPA
Chitradurga:
Former MP and Congress leader P. Kodandaramaiah has claimed that the United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre had given better govern=
ance
than the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government.
http:=
//www.hindu.com/2009/04/22/stories/2009042253090300.htm
Uncertainty over
paddy procurement in Alappuzha
ALAPPUZHA:
The strong spells of rain that lashed the State over the last few days have
cast a cloud of uncertainty over the future of around 26,000 tonnes of
harvested paddy crop that is yet to be procured from the fields of Kuttanad=
.
http:=
//www.hindu.com/2009/04/22/stories/2009042252430300.htm
Eco-group against
tree felling
Kozhikode:
The city-based Conservation of Nature Society has urged the District Collec=
tor
to prevent the felling of four shade trees inside the Government
Teachers’ Training Institute compound at Nadakkavu in the city.
http:=
//www.hindu.com/2009/04/22/stories/2009042252320300.htm
Low-cost disaster
warning system from IIT-Delhi
NEW
DELHI: In an effort to display advisory information for coastal and
disaster-prone areas of the country, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi,=
has
designed a low-cost disaster warning system for tsunamis and cyclones.
http:=
//www.hindu.com/2009/04/22/stories/2009042257870400.htm
Water scarcity l=
ooms
large over State
BHUBANESWAR:
At a time when many parts of the State are increasingly turning into water =
scarcity
zones, at least five major river systems of the State are likely to be burd=
ened
by mining and industrial activities.
http:=
//www.hindu.com/2009/04/22/stories/2009042257220200.htm
Bangalore and the
spectre of climate change
The
only genuine untouched lung spaces are the famed Cubbon Park and Lal Bagh,
besides the large tracts that the army has inherited from the British in the
Cantonment area.
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Apr222009/panorama20090421131594=
.asp
ENN
G8 Agriculture
Ministers Conclude Summit on Food Stability
Agriculture
ministers from the major industrialized nations called on Monday for increa=
sed
agriculture production as a way to combat world hunger.
http://www.enn.com/agriculture/ar=
ticle/39740
Climate change
threatens Ganges, Niger and other mighty rivers
Some
of the mightiest rivers on the planet, including the Ganges, the Niger, and=
the
Yellow river in China, are drying up because of climate
change, a study of global waterways warned yesterday.
http://=
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/22/drought-environment-waterways
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