Mapping disaster
Little information currently exists on how specific areas of the country will be hit by climate change
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Ballooning risk
The thick brown haze largely seen in the South Asian skies is spreading to newer areas like the Gulf region. V Ramanathan, a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of
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Way to oblivion
That's where the Asian sea horses might be headed
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Moneymakers
TREMOR SENSORS: Last year's earthquake in Kobe, Japan, has triggered off a spate of earthquake-related lighting equipments. An emergency fight by Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. Japan's largest
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Voices against protectionism
Several Third World countries derided the North's attempts to link trade with social and environmental issues
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Mobile film festival unveils its official selection
<p align="center"><em>Voting is open to the public now till November 30<sup>th</sup> 2015</em></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><br /> <em>Mobile Film Festival is an officialevent
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Last chance for the big cat
Several countries are getting tough with tiger poachers and traders in what may be the final attempt to save the magnificent beast:
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Who will help her learn?
Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out of school to help their overworked mothers. But female literacy is crucial to a nation"s development and ensuri
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Tarnished terrain
Pesticides used in rice cultivation are having just the reverse effect than the one intended -instead of decimating pests, extensive studies reveal that they are, in fact, destroying precisely those precious bugs that keep the pests on a tight leash. Seve
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SAARC gene bank yet to open an account
SAARC's proposal to set up a gene bank is still hanging fire though Northern countries have already started to privatise their genetic resources
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What moved at CoP 13
Or didn t
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Biodiversity fund
the World Bank along with Conser vation International (ci), a global non-profit organisation and the Global Environment Facility (gef), the main funder of biodiversity conservation
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Steering out of gas
A global oil crisis is just a decade away, warn geologists
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Societies and sustainability
The two volumes are the result of the combined effort of CUSO***, a Canadian NGO, and environmentalists from Asia. The contributors share their experiences on a wide range of issues ranging from
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FOLLOW UP
The stand-off between Greenpeace activists and a shipping company at Botany Bay harbour in Sydney, Australia, has come as a wake-up call for South Asian countries where ship-breaking is a growing and
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White on black
A series of film clips is designed to bring the East closer to the self satisfied cobbers in Australia.
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UNITED NATIONS
To ensure that the South East Asian Region can have the best health care possible, the 53 session of World Health Organi sation (WHO) for this region has made several recommendations. These include,
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More or less equal
God made all humans equal, but some are more equal than others when it comes to consuming the world's resources
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No money for labs in antibiotics research
Though increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is making it difficult to treat diseases such as malaria, pharmaceutical companies do not consider it profitable to invest in research for new drugs.
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The epidemic grows
as much as 0.4 per cent of India's population has aids . The country has the sixth highest incidence of aids in Southeast Asia, says a World Bank ( wb ) report titled