The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The bid to reafforest the Himalayas could actually backfire on its ecology. Exotic plants which have the ability to grow rapidly and used for the programme are having an anis on the soil, water and air ha paglon. Vir Singh, a noted ecolo G 8 Pant University of kullara iand …
A GROUP Of 10 scientists from the rich world are demanding a fresh look at the world's environmental problems today. While praising the environmental movement in the North for pioneering positive changes in air and water quality there, the scientists accuse them of failing to accept their wrong predictions about …
Two groups,in the US - the Pure Food Campaign and the Coalition Against Life Patents - orgardsed a protest, and picket in New York and Chicago on September, 27, The protest was to draw attention to the possible dangers presented by genetically engineered plants, seeds, fruits and vegetables. The groups …
World Bank, which has for years been accused of being anti-environment be green groups across the planet, Ift now come up with a report to See its green credentials. The Bank provided us $10 billions in loans to earvironmental projects in 62 countries shace the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, W …
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Vietnam is gearing up to combat dengue, a mosquito-bome fever which kills thousands of children in Asia and more than a million worldwide. Aus Aid, Australia's national aid agency, is helping it in its endeavour. They are planning to use an organism called mesocyclops to get rid of the deadly …
The Cote of Ivoire government has taken a long overdue step to check heedless deforestation. In mid-September, the Forest Protection Council instituted a ban on the export of all unprocessed wood. "The export of tim- ber, even semi-processed will not be allowed", declared a government statement. The government welcome as …
THE poacher-turned-saridalwood smuggler Veerappan, operating in the forests of Karnataka, who has managed to evade all efforts to nab him seems to have gained an upper hand once again. The fugitive's dose associates including his brother, Arjunan, alongwith Iyyan Dorai and Rangaswarny committed suicide while in police custody. According to …
The Brazil government green watchdog Jhama is all set to haul up nvironmental offenders. In an agressive move to end its ofic financial problems pt people to observe ugunental laws, lhama loonched Operation &F.; The aim is to clear Me becidog of cases collect unpaid fines, which anuount to around …
The residents of Galapagos Islands in we engaged in an angry war of words with conservationists.Furious that modocian president, Doran Ballen, has a new law that would have allowed them to exploit more of the islands' resources, the islanders have threatened to cut off food supply to the animals at …
Panama city played host early October to 6 Latin American nations, these nations sought to adopt a new code of conduct for their tuna fishing fleets that would drastically reduce the number of dolphins killed, and persuade the us Congress to lift a ban againt tuna imports from their countries. …
FOLLOWING the footsteps of cod, haddock, halibut, salmon and hosts of other seafish are the seahorses which are the latest victims of overfishing, According to Amanda Vincent, an Oxford biologist, some 20 million scahorses were consumed last year. Its demand in southeast Asia has overtaken the supply sharply. It is …
A RED dog laps up purple water from an open gutter, while a yellow cow ambles past. Dreams in technicolour? No ... just one of the many everyday scenes in Ankleshwar, Gujarat, Asia's largest chemical industry zone and possibly one of the most polluted. The acrid smell of chemicals welcomes …
TO THE question "What is time?", Saint Augustine of Hippo, the revered 4th century thinker is reported to have remarked, "If no one asks me, I know, but if any person should require me to tell him, I cannot." This enigmatic statement is probably what most of us would agree …
A FEW months before he was unceremoniously shifted to the ministry of textiles, India's minister for environment and forests Karnal Nath had told a staff member of the Centre for Science and Environment that while usually it @s the job of officials to brief a minister, the opposite was the …
WHETHER reshuffling of the Union Cabinet on the eve of the crucial Sept 18-22 conference in Geneva on transboundary movement of toxic wastes had any effect on the event's outcome is more a matter of conjecture. But it definitely reflects a recurring malaise in the Indian government's attitude, where political …
The Nepalese government has finally made up its mind about what it wants to do with the capital's garbage. It has declared Okharpauwa in Nuwakot district as the final disposal site for the muck. This area will ultimately be developed into a permanent landfill site. The government has also urged …
The Clinton administration has suffered yet another setback in its crusade to protect the forests in the US northwest from marauding timber merchants. On September 14, district court judge Michael Hogan came up with a ruling that timber sales must proceed on thousands of acres of forests previously set aside …
MUSHROOMING growth and burgeoning population is slowly eating up the natural Sonoran desert in Arizona; Phoenix, one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions in the US, especially faces the dread prospect of turning into a concrete jungle. Herb Drinkwater, the mayor of Scottsdale suburb, has stopped issuing permits for buildings, …
ECOLOGICAL central planning is what Denmark's ruling social democrats have hit upon by way of ideology. And its most ardent proponent is the minister for energy and the environment, Svend Auken, who's looking for more regulation to preserve the ecosystem. According to Auken, Denmark must take the lead in the …
