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Cleaner Cooking Fuel for 300 Million by 2021 - Randeep Agarwal
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 23 (NewsVoir): Globally, there are approximately 1.4 billion people without access to electricity and 2.7 billion people who rely on solid fuel (wood, crop residue, dung and coal) for cooking. The use of these traditional cooking fuels creates several significant pr
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Bollywood hails Mother Nature on World Earth Day
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 22 (ANI): Bollywood stars took to Twitter to spread green messages on World Earth Day, this Friday. Many of them pointed at exceeding harm of plastic, ever rising pollution level, and day-by-day increasing global warming.
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Creating sustainable architecture on contemporary designs
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 21 (ANI): Among the most complex problems of modern society are reduction of pollution and energy resource expenditure within the building sector.
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Scientists create plastic-eating enzyme
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
London [United Kingdom], Apr. 17 (ANI): Pollution has become a serious health issue and certain ways have been discovered to reduce it but the best way is by recycling plastic.
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Is pollution putting you at Alzheimer's, suicide risks?
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 14 (ANI): Smog-filled towns and cities have been linked to increased risks for Alzheimer's and suicide among children and young adults.
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Uber aims to reduce traffic & congestion with 'Movement'
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 12 (ANI): With an aim to help civic authorities, traffic police, researchers, think tanks and policymakers discover ways to apply data to make better infrastructure and traffic management decisions, cab aggregator Uber on Thursday launched the second phase of 'Move
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Electric vehicles become new trend in fighting pollution in Andhra
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Apr. 10 (ANI): In ongoing three-day long 'Happy Cities Summit 2018', electric vehicles are the new trend in fighting pollution.
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Researchers study impact of long-term exposures to outdoor air pollution
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 6 (ANI): Exposure to road traffic and outdoor air pollution significantly increases the risk of asthma, according to a study.
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Cabinet okays India-SACEP MoU to tackle oil, chemical pollution
Updated : 7 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and South Asian Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) to cooperate on the issue of oil and chemical pollution in the South
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China issues three-day smog alert
Updated : 7 years, 12 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Mar 26 (ANI): China has issued its third major "orange alert" this year, as pollution levels rose up after capital Beijing was named as the country's top city for reducing air pollution last week.
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To make AP pollution free, Naidu calls on electric vehicle manufacturers
Updated : 7 years, 12 months ago IST
Chittur [Andhra Pradesh] [India], Mar 24 (ANI): In an endeavour to make Andhra Pradesh pollution free, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Friday called on companies producing electric vehicles to set up a base in the state.
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9-day yagya begins in UP to 'curb pollution'
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar. 19 (ANI): A 'mahayagya' is being held in Meerut with the aim to curb pollution.
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