The change of a lifetime
Now that the jury is out on the very real threat of climate change, we must focus on what needs to be done. The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ipcc should make
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A year after Kalinganagar firing, tribal India refuses to shine
Driving to the Kalinga Nagar Industrial Zone to commemorate the first anniversary of tribals killed during a protest, stone crushers line the newly paved highway. Women, children and men wield
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Ecologists fear growth of polluting industry
Environmentalists fear India's liberalisation policies will lead to the growth of the small scale dyestuff industry, which is a heavy polluter.
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Tanakpur treaty to come up for ratification
The sharing of waters between India and Nepal has always been a contentious issue. If the latest agreement is any different, it is only because the issue has become political.
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Operation Everglades
This time, the US Army has environment on its mind
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Doomed dam
A five year long protest in France resulted in a major victory for conservationists, with the government being forced to abandon plans to build a dam.
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China
For the first time, China looks serious towards the environmental problems. It has recently put the environment protection issue in the government's priority list, which is at par with agriculture,
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Blinded By Greed
Corruption in the management of the environment culminated in the blinding of young men by the Bihar police
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In court
penalised: A US-based water company, United Utilities Plc, has been prosecuted for the fourth time this year. A UK court asked it to pay about US $18,600 as penalty for discharging 56,000 cubic
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Risky move
WB s U turn on hydropower
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Bangladesh
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="210px"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#363636" colspan="2" height="26px" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; padding-left:5px;"> Editor's Pick</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="380" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/bangladesh/bangladesh_iframe.htm" style="border-width:0px; border-color:#333; background:#FFF; border-style:solid;" width="555"></iframe></p> <hr /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="210px"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#363636" colspan="2" height="26px" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; padding-left:5px;"> Country Overview</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 540px;"> <tbody bgcolor="#F0F0F0"> <tr> <td> <p><iframe align="right" frameborder="1" height="310" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://maps.google.co.in/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bangladesh&aq=&sll=20.984928,82.752628&sspn=45.458666,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bangladesh&t=m&ll=23.684774,90.351563&spn=3.42031,3.724365&z=7&output=embed" width="330"></iframe><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Bangladesh is located between 20 º 34 to 26º 38 north latitude and 88.01 º to 92.42 º east longitude, with an area of 147,570 sq km). With a population of 164.000 million, Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated countries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">It has a border on the west, north, and east with India, on the southeast with Myanmar, and the Bay of Bengal is to the south. Geologically, Bangladesh is a part of the Bengal Basin, one of the largest geosynclinals in the world.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The Basin is bordered on the north by the steep Tertiary Himalayas; on the northeast and east by the late Tertiary Shillong Plateau, the Tripura hills of lesser elevation, and the Naga-Lusai olded belt; and in the west by the moderately high, ancient Chotanagpur plateau.</span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
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Nuclear tank explodes in Siberian plant
A blast in a secret weapons factory in the off limits city of Tomsk 7 shook western Siberia recently and revived memories of Chernobyl.
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Grasim draws flak
A public meeting held in Kerala criticised a Birla owned factory for doing nothing to control the pollution it is causing
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A robot for the deep
Scientists in the US have developed a device that would help search toxic wastes at seabed
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Submerged by dams
Many international organisations have expressed concern for the people to be displaced by the Sardar Sarovar dam project on the Narmada in Gujarat, but the fate of those already ousted by other
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We have not been good listeners
The G B Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development in Almora, Uttar Pradesh, is among the few in the world that concentrate on issues related to mountains. Its director, <font class='UCASE'>L M S Palni</font> , dwelt on the need to develop s
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Half truths
constructive dialogue and objective assessments have always been a casualty in the conflicts and controversies that have surrounded large dams. Such projects have nevertheless played a major role in
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Destruction as a way of sustainable farming
For centuries, the Iban tribals of Malaysia have cultivated crops by clearing trees, but without endangering the rainforests. At the centre of their practices are traditional rights that each generation inherits.
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Early signals
Scientists became aware of acid rain more than a century ago
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A dying craft
The technique of producing iron from low grade ore used by the Agarias was environmentally sound. But the community is marginalised today, and their craft is a dying art