On edge
Can bamboo become the basis of a thriving industry? Can the northeast cash in the most?
Can bamboo become the basis of a thriving industry? Can the northeast cash in the most?
Sri Lanka has raised many questions about the Sethusamudram project. About 125 NGOs had submitted a memorandum raising many concerns. "It (the Sethu project) is being implemented according to the
15 hectares of utter confusion
With the 4th un Conference on Women and the ngo Forum on Women (Beijing) round the corner, the New York-based Women's Environment and Development Organisation (wedo) has launched the 180 Days/180
The Pesticide Action Network-Asia and the Pacific Regional Centre (PANAP) has launched a campaign against 2 toxic pesticides, enclosulf an and triphenyltin, manufactured primarily by the German
The Women's Environmental Network had launched a campaign in spring 1993 against miserable working conditions and the use of pesticides in cocoa production. The campaign, aimed at ameliorating the
"Europeans Against Superphenix", a 888-based group which has been organising protests against the Superphenix fast breeder reactor near France's border with Switzerland, has now launched a campaign,
No, no and no again. At a meeting organised by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (cse) on July 7, environmentalists firmly rejected the proposal of the ministry of environment and
Alarmed by the sharp depletion of fish stocks, 7 environmental groups, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council of the USA, recently launched a campaign to save the world's large pelagic (open
Filipinos in the island of Palawan are fighting to prevent an environmental catastrophe in their seas caused by cyanide fishing - a technique where cyanide is squirted on fish to stun and bag them.
The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has launched a public awareness cam- paign aimed at debunking traditional beliefs that fuel the demand for tiger products in South Asia.
Gubraida gram panchayat scripts a success story by bringing illegal mining to a halt
In 1996, about 14,000 million tonnes of meat came from the chicken alone. Rare indigenous breeds are extremely hardy and provide more protein and nutrition. Research on them is the need of the hour
World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, August 26 September 4, 2002
Over 15 billion cigarettes are smoked everyday!
The Philippines is on the horns of a dilemma: to mine or not to mine? The cash-starved Philippines government would like to regain its lost glory as a leading gold and copper producer. But the
The Darjeeling Zoo plans to release two female red pandas into the Singhalila National Park, which is located in West Bengal, in an attempt to increase the numbers of this endangered animal. Two
Zimbabwe's farmers and miners are fighting each other ever since the government embarked on its land reform programme. Before the reforms, most of Zimbabwe's small-scale mining was carried out on
The 60th anniversary of Washington-based organisations, the World Bank (wb) and International Monetary Fund (imf), was celebrated amidst clamours for reform. Critics distributed
It has come to light that the us government has given away an estimated 1.5 million hectares (ha) of its public lands, often for as little as us $2 per ha, for hardrock mining operations. These