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Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten 1.3 billion AsiansKathmandu (AFP) Dec 6, 2009 More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continent. Glaciers in the Himalayas, a 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) range that sweeps through Pakistan, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, provide headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers, lifelines for the 1.3 ... read more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Dec 3, 2009India pledged on Thursday to cut its carbon footprint in the next decade by reducing the intensity of its emissions, in a long-awaited move ahead of the Copenhagen climate talks. Addressing parliament, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said India needed to show leadership to its people and the world and even invoked the country's environment-minded independence leader Mahatma Gandhi to bols ... more  
Bhopal, India (UPI) Dec 3, 2009 As activists and survivors demonstrated for justice on the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal, India, gas disaster, experts say the toxic effects continue to take a toll. On Dec. 3, 1984, a cloud of toxic gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide factory, killing 10,000 people within three days. Research by the Indian Council for Medical Research shows that 25,000 people have died fr ... more  
Mumbai (AFP) Dec 3, 2009New car buyers like Puneet Masih are not hard to find in India, where the country's fast-expanding vehicle fleet reflects the increasing appetite for private transport among the emerging middle classes. Across Asia, millions of people each year are progressing from pushbikes to motorbikes and onto cars, as the region develops economically. But there are fears that the transition will have an ... more |
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Bhopal, India (UPI) Nov 23, 2009 A report issued in connection with the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal, India, chemical disaster says the area's drinking water remains toxic. The report, released Tuesday by the Bhopal Medical Appeal, says there are still high levels of toxic chemicals in the drinking water supply of 15 communities near the old Union Carbide pesticide plant where the catastrophe occurred. ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2009China called on Tuesday for rich nations to heed the developing world's position on climate change just days ahead of crunch talks in Copenhagen aimed at tackling global warming. "Developed countries should pay attention to the concerns and interests of developing countries," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters. His comments came after representatives from China, India ... more  
Bhopal, India (AFP) Dec 1, 2009Laccho Bai's life has gone from bad to worse in the 25 years since the Bhopal gas tragedy, when fumes escaped from a pesticide plant in the central Indian city, killing thousands instantly. Huddled against the dirt floor of her home -- a shack of wooden planks propped against a brick wall with a tin roof -- a thin white mucus covers Laccho's eyes, the apparent result of exposure to more than ... more |
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