Lessons to be learnt from Chilika
EVERYONE recognises the importance of forests. We have over the years set up several structures and evolved policies to try and conserve them. How effective these are is, of course, another question.
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Stalagamite weather report
The result obtained from stalagamites supplemented by past temperature records, type of vegetation, data from the oceans such as the growth rate of corals are used in drawing a conclusive picture of the past monsoons
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Troubling thaw
After a heat wave scorched Europe this summer, it is the largest ice shelf in the Arctic region that seems to have fallen prey to global warming. At least 3,000 years old, the Ward Hunt ice shelf on
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Cities and low carbon development: Summry sheet
This document contains summary sheet of low carbon development and cities. Cities and urban areas contain most of the productive and consumptive activities that are contributing to climate change. Indeed, almost all growth, both demographic and economic, is now occurring in and around urban settlements.
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Ramsar Convention: A tool for wise use of wetlands
In India, wetlands are distributed in all the biogeographic regions and exhibit significant ecological diversity, primarily because of the variability in climate, geology, habitat and topography.
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Worship now, repent later
Do Indian festivals have to be as polluting as they are at present?
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Zimbabwe to cull elephants to check their growth
Zimbabwe has announced plans for culling and contraception to slow down rampant elephant population growth. The announcement comes close to a recent incident in which a rogue elephant trampled to
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National wetland atlas
<p>This national wetland atlas prepared by SAC, Ahmedabad as a part of the project on National Wetland Inventory & Assessment presents wetland status of each State/Union Territory through text, statistical tables, satellite images,maps and ground photographs.</p>
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Dying for a lake
Four fisherfolks were killed in police firing in Chilka Lake when they were protesting against prawn farming in the lake on May 29
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Homicide by nuclides
A top secret Soviet nuclear complex contaminated its environs for 40 years, exposing thousands of people in the vicinity to radiation
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If nothing is done, we fisherfolk will perish
Bhajani Behera of Arakhakuda village, feels the lake is doomed unless the government mounts rescue operations quickly. He should know, because he has spent 65 years of his life fishing in the lake for a living.
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A lake full of woes
The Orissa state government and the high court assume different postures even as the local fisherfolk continue to suffer<br> <br>
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Toxic lakes
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally come up with a full-fledged plan to combat pollution at the Great Lakes on the US-Canadian border. The basin-of the 5 lakes,
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The war in water
The invasion of exotics is as destructive in water as it is on land. These have rightly been described as "biotic oil spills'. A growing number of uninvited fish, molluscs, plants, plankton and
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Follow up
The people of China are hoping that last summers flood, the worst since 1954 in the Yangtze River, will be a warning to the authorities that they can no longer take the environment for granted (
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Bolivia's Jurassic park
SCIENTISTS in Bolivia have found the world's largest group of dinosaur foot-prints. The footprints up to one metre long were found near the town of Sucre, 700 kilometre southeast of the capital La
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Water doesn't drain in Kolkata, West Bengal
Click here to enlarge Kolkata went under water on September 24, 2006. The Meteorological Office said that Kolkata received 211.6 mm of rain on 22 September. That
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Ultimate survivors
"Extremotolerant" bacteria make a living in the deepfreeze lakes in Antarctica
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HC comes to Dal lake s rescue
till recently, restoring the pristine beauty of the famous Dal, Nagin and Aanchar lakes seemed an impossible task. But a recent court directive on the cleaning of these water bodies has rekindled
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Cambodian Great Lake area may have hydrocarbons
Cambodia hopes to look for oil and gas near its Tonle Sap great lake, but the head of the petroleum authority said yesterday he was confident exploration and exploitation would not damage the lake's