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2010: hottest year in India till date
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2010
Mumbye
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2009
The financial capital of India could face damages worth Rs 35,00,000 crore by 2050 because of climate change. Between 1901 and 2007, it registered a mean temperature rise of 1.62C. The sea level around the island city is rising by 2.4 mm every year. Together they would unleash a chain of disasters flash floods, disease outbreaks, building collapses, dislocation and death
Downpour unleashed
India losing biodiversity hotspots
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2009
Drinking water sources getting polluted
The report on state of India's environment says degraded land in the country has decreased from 57 per cent in 2001 to 45 per cent in 2009.
Forest cover has increased, marginally. But there is little else to cheer
Central India, Eastern Himalayas and the Western Ghats, India's biodiversity hotspots, are losing forest cover
Dirty advance
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2009
Financial institutions push coal-fired power plants, not renewable energy, says US study
88 coal-fired power plants received funds from World Bank and other international public financial institutions in the past 15 years
Road trauma
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2009
How socially responsible are Indian corporates?
Issue Date: May 31, 2009
Forty nine per cent companies were not doing any Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities
1,000 Indian companies have been rated for CSR by Karmayog, a group of Mumbai-based citizens, non-profits and corporate houses
Nutrition challenge
Issue Date: May 15, 2009
Defying the code
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2009
Countries not complying with UN fisheries code
It's the economy Americans are worried about
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2009
Road kill
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2009
Accounts for 22 per cent of accidental deaths in children
Around 950,000 minors worldwide die every year due to injury and violence
About 87.4 per cent of these are categorized unintentional (accidental) injuries
