SNIPPETS

Up against mining in Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia

Opal replaces unleaded petrol in Australia

Iceland resumes whale meat export

Snippets

Argentina unveils clean-up plan for La Matanza river

Shrimp lobby bypasses US tax review

India to bypass Bangladesh on Myanmar-India gas pipeline

Japanese encephalitis in Assam

Ecological disaster looms large over Lebanon

South Asia

In Short

Owen Corning to settle all claims on asbestos damage

UN lifts 3-year ban on Liberian timber exports

Forests in peril in Amazon rainforests

Kenya's Ogiek tribe fights government to return home

Chemical waste dump forces Philippines villagers out

IN SHORT

Five southeast countries team up to fight Indonesian haze

Shell, BP fined for distributing petrol that did not meet US's legal standards

WHO for DDT in malaria-control programme

Dead fish litter seashore in Qatar

Trade deal inked

Carbon dioxide lake discovered off Taiwan

Phorate poisoning affects people in Jalandhar, Punjab