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Chennai vs It's Oil Spill: Volunteers With Gloves Scoop Up Thick Tar
With Chennai in the middle of its worst environmental disaster ever, hundreds of students and fishermen are working Friday to clean up an oil spill on India's southern coast.
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Vietnam Says Taiwan Firm's Pollution Affected 200,000 People
The Vietnamese government said the toxic pollution a Taiwanese-owned company has acknowledged discharging from its steel complex has harmed the livelihoods of more than 200,000 people, including 41,000 fishermen.
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Bangladesh Development 'Threatens Fragile Sundarbans'
Bangladesh's rapid development on the doorstep of the ecologically fragile Sundarbans mangrove forest means "environmental disasters" like this month's oil spill in the massive delta are increasingly likely, experts warn.
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How India lets polluters get away
If cleaning up the still toxic site at Bhopal is a priority for the government, tackling the question of liability is an altogether different proposition. Existing laws in the country are too weak to effectively take on big polluting corporations. The end result, in instances, polluting companies can still get away by paying a fine of as little as ...
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Hunting for the accused
Finally, hope of justice came for the victims of the world's worst-ever environmental disaster, the Bhopal gas tragedy.
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Goa's vanishing coastline
It was nine years ago that River Princess, a 240 m ship damaged its hull and got stuck at a Goa beach.
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Chennai vs It's Oil Spill: Volunteers With Gloves Scoop Up Thick Tar
With Chennai in the middle of its worst environmental disaster ever, hundreds of students and fishermen are working Friday to clean up an oil spill on India's southern coast.
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Vietnam Says Taiwan Firm's Pollution Affected 200,000 People
The Vietnamese government said the toxic pollution a Taiwanese-owned company has acknowledged discharging from its steel complex has harmed the livelihoods of more than 200,000 people, including 41,000 fishermen.
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Bangladesh Development 'Threatens Fragile Sundarbans'
Bangladesh's rapid development on the doorstep of the ecologically fragile Sundarbans mangrove forest means "environmental disasters" like this month's oil spill in the massive delta are increasingly likely, experts warn.
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How India lets polluters get away
If cleaning up the still toxic site at Bhopal is a priority for the government, tackling the question of liability is an altogether different proposition. Existing laws in the country are too weak to effectively take on big polluting corporations. The end result, in instances, polluting companies can still get away by paying a fine of as little as ...
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Hunting for the accused
Finally, hope of justice came for the victims of the world's worst-ever environmental disaster, the Bhopal gas tragedy.
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Goa's vanishing coastline
It was nine years ago that River Princess, a 240 m ship damaged its hull and got stuck at a Goa beach.
