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Mizoram readies itself for rodent attack as Mautam strikes! The tranquillity of the North Eastern state of Mizoram seems to be at stake once again with predictions about gregarious flowering of the Bamboo, the fastest growing grass, since its last bloom gave birth to the bloody insurgency in the state.

One Fewer SUV, via Treehugger, has the story of Ryan Mickle who wants to get rid of his inner city SUV in a way that makes sure it stops polluting for good: Ryan wants your suggestions. Should he blow it up or convert it to biodiesel? Donate it to some organization? Convert it to electric? He’s looking for ideas that are both eco and attention-getting.

P Clifford and Fulton Long’s ongoing letter writing debate exploded across the letters page of the Southland Times yesterday with 4 letters dedicated to refuting Long’s assertion that a few dirty rivers is an acceptable price to pay for economic prosperity.

Yesterday’s West Coast drinking water report segues neatly into today’s release of the proposed National Policy Statement (NPS) for freshwater management. By way of background to this document, Labour promised during the 2005 election campaign it would make rivers and lakes safe for swimming.

West Coasters are fighting off a massive aerial 1080 drops over their homes and water supplies - you might have seen them on TV in the past few weeks. The drops is an Animal Health Board program for controlling Tb (by killing off possums, which are a Tb vector).

Go green: Save the trees By  Pratibha Prashar Every day number of trees disappear from the face of the earth. When there are other ways of generating paper products, trees are still being used largely. It’s high time now, that we stop this mean destruction, before we forget the colour green.

We already know about the myriad of problems around the world caused by drought, water delivery restrictions and inadequate access to clean water. And we’ve already heard the argument that global warming is to blame for such water shortages.

Chin State Face Food Shortages Arunachal, Mizoram to jointly fight for ILP Mizoram to grant OBC status to Gorkhas Funds for developing border areas go unutilised Petrol, diesel prices go down in Mizoram Assam It’s Hazarika’s turn to answer Dibrugarh, Jul 17 : Ulfa peaceniks will face the

Researchers turn to international cooperation to save Asia’s 7′th longest river. Urbanization, growing slums, intensive farming, damming, and warring political ideologies are just a few of the hurdles that researchers from Helsinki University of Technology will need to overcome to protect the Mekong River, one of the most important water sources in Southeast Asia.

The Bureau of Land Management clearly had no idea what kind of blowback it would receive when, a month ago, it closed the door on applications to build solar plants on federal land in Nevada and five other Southwest states to buy time to study their environmental consequences.