Pollution 'reducing rice harvest'
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Pollution-laden clouds may be the culprit for India's dwindling rice harvests, according to research.
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By MORGAN, Jon  It isn't easy being green, agricultural and horticultural scientists are finding.   The scientists held a seminar in Napier to find middle ground between farmers who want economic growth and environmentalists who want to stop farm pollution.
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By Teddy Ng  Hong Kong entrepreneurs who own factories in the Pearl River Delta Region are grappling with a new challenge: Care about pollution or perish.
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Environmental degradation is affecting health, nutrition and the natural world, says a flagship UN report.
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Air pollution is killing more than half a million people in Asian cities each year and shows no sign of improving as urban centers expand, studies by the Asian Development Bank show.
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By Bangkok Post, Thailand  Jun. 8--The oil refiner and petrochemical manufacturer IRPC must improve  pollution controls within its industrial zone to the levels of factories  located within Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in Rayong by next March.
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A Cambridge power plant reduced its emissions last year when it switched from oil to natural gas. But environmentalists gathered yesterday to say that the plant simply traded one kind of pollution for another, now threatening the water instead of the air.
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Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday.
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Pig manure in Chile will keep neon lights glowing on Tokyo's Ginza in years to come. It's a grand north-south tradeoff to slow global warming: You reduce your "greenhouse gas" emissions so I don't have to cut back on mine.
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By Dennis Pollock, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 7--The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has singled out two programs in the central San Joaquin Valley for their innovative approaches to farming in a more environmentally friendly way.
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The Department of Agriculture declared safe for human consumption yesterday an experimental variety of genetically engineered rice found to have contaminated the U.S. rice supply this summer.
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Urban air pollution may be reducing rainfall in the Central Valley and along the heavily populated southern California coast, while trimming mountain snowfall that supplies much of the state's drinking and irrigation water and hydroelectric power, a Stanford University professor's study released Thursday shows.
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By Rina De Silva  PETALING JAYA: A novel way to protect the environment is in the pipeline.  A group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and residents' associations plans to buy up multi-million ringgit green lungs nationwide so that they would not be developed.
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The Environmental Protection Agency released an annual report on Monday that showed enforcement actions in the last fiscal year would eliminate a billion pounds of pollution from the nation&#39;s air, land and water.
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Rice University researchers say they have figured out a way to reduce the potential toxicity of Buckyballs.
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has made the country one of the world&#39;s leading polluters, a long-delayed government report shows. up to 30 percent of the planet&#39;s animal and plant species.
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By Josh Rabe, The Daily Oklahoman  Dec. 9--ALTUS -- State agriculture officials helped collect more than 62,000 pounds of pesticides this week in an effort to get rid of old, unwanted chemicals.