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- Gujarat pollution board gets a makeover in efficiency 33
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- India bans use of dolphins for commercial entertainment
- Chaos in the iron age 4
- Pawar's daughter on panel that will examine biotechnology Bill 1
- Activist lands in jail for protesting lack of health facilities in tribal district five years ago
- Health ministry sets timeframe for keeping animals treated with antibiotics out of food chain
- Smart farming 6
- Old demons remain, new emerge
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- Environment ministry wants to restore night traffic through Bandipur tiger reserve 52
- A green facade 44
- Diesel: when bad policy makes for toxic hell 38
- Gujarat pollution board gets a makeover in efficiency 33
- What’s good insulation? 30
- How vulnerable are India's nuclear power plants to disaster 28
- Grand distraction called river interlinking 28
- Eat at your own risk 27
- Green energy takes toll on green cover 26
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Issue Date: Jan 15, 2000
-- Has economic growth become dirtier? While the world economy has grown steadily since 1950, global temperature increased from 13.84C to 14.57C (in 1998). But even after a slowing down of trade in 1998, the temperature continued to rise. Down the years, the volume of international air freight has also increased rapidly from just six million tonnes in 1970 to 24 million tonnes in 1997. However, this mode of transport is far more energy-intensive than shipping, another favoured form of transportation.
Tags: Statistics, Air Pollution, Air Transport, Carbon Dioxide, DTE Statistics, Environment Economics, Greenhouse effect, TRADE & ENVIRONMENT
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