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Malaria deaths in India 'underestimated'New Delhi (UPI) Oct 22, 2010 Deaths from malaria in India may be as much as 10 times higher than official World Health Organization estimates, researchers say. A new survey suggests malaria kills between 125,000 and 277,000 people per year in India alone, far higher than the 16,000 toll WHO counts, NewScientist.com reports. Estimates of malaria deaths in India are based on death rates recorded in clinics, corrected in an attempt to account for people missed by the health system, but a study by international research ... read more |
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  Australian scientists say Asia's corals hit by mass die-out Coral reefs in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean are dying from the worst bleaching effect in more than a decade, Australian marine scientists said Tuesday. The bleaching, triggered by a large ... more | .. |
  US takes up Pakistan military wish-list The United States said Tuesday it was in talks with Pakistan about new military assistance as part of a partnership against Islamic extremism, in a step sure to trigger unease in India. The Uni ... more | .. |
  South Asia is world's most climate-vulnerable region: study South Asia is the world's most climate-vulnerable region, its fast-growing populations badly exposed to flood, drought, storms and sea-level rise, according to a survey of 170 nations published on W ... more | .. |
  Can Hungary's Red Sludge Be Made Less Toxic With Carbon The red, metal-laden sludge that escaped a containment pond in Hungary last week could be made less toxic with the help of carbon sequestration, says an Indiana University Bloomington geologist who ... more | .. |
  India mulls Boeing Globemaster III deal India and Boeing remained locked in negotiations for the former's purchase of as many as 10 military transport aircraft by Dec. 15. India's indecision led to the cancellation of a previous contra ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Oct 18, 2010The majority of an Indian government panel probing the environmental impact of a 12-billion-dollar South Korean steel plant said Monday that clearances for the project should be scrapped. Steel giant POSCO wants to build the plant in the eastern state of Orissa, in what would be India's largest foreign investment project since the country launched market reforms in 1991. Three of the fou ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2010Removing the toxic and odorous emissions of ammonia from the industrial production of fertilizer is a costly and energy-intensive process. Now, researchers in Bangladesh have turned to microbes and inexpensive wood charcoal to create a biofilter that can extract the noxious gas from vented gases and so reduce pollution levels from factories in the developing world. Writing in the Internati ... more  
Paris (AFP) Oct 16, 2010France's only aircraft carrier needs weeks for repairs after returning to port a day after it set off to fight piracy in the Indian Ocean and support NATO's Afghan mission, the military said Saturday. Naval spokesman Captain Hugues d'Argentre had said Thursday it would take a few days to carry out the necessary repairs on the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle as it headed back to its home po ... more |
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Humpback whale beats long-distance recordParis (AFP) Oct 12, 2010 A humpback whale has broken the world record for travel by any mammal, swimming at least 9,800 kilometres (6,125 miles) from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean in search of a mate, marine biologists reported on Wednesday. The female humpback was first photographed among a group of whales at a breeding ground on Abrolhos Bank, off Brazil's southeastern coast, on August 7 1999. By sheer chance, it was photographed more than two years later, on September 21 2001 by a commercial whale-watching tour at ... read more |
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