New data published by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) reveals that the overall 2023 air pollution levels in Jakarta were arguably the worst since 2019. Despite improvements between 2020 and 2022, the rise of pollution in 2023 is a notable setback. Over 29 million people …
Sirens wailed and loudspeakers ordered residents of coastal towns and villages from Indonesia's Aceh province to Sri Lanka to seek safety during an Indian Ocean-wide tsunami practice drill on Wednesday. The exercise, a U.N.-backed initiative to test the warning systems and overall preparedness of nations in the region, is supposed …
R. PRASAD Large earthquakes cause redistribution of fluid (groundwater) in fault zones far away. Movement of ground water within the fault zones tends to lubricate the faults, which in turn tends to weaken them. Failing of faults ultimately causes earthquakes. Large earthquakes have been found to increase the chances of …
A strong 6.2magnitude quake struck off Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued, the country's geophysics agency said. The quake struck at 8.38 pm (1138 GMT) at sea 195 km southeast of Melonguane in North Sulawesi province at …
Converting coal-bed methane into liquefied natural gas is a fledgling industry but one that has attracted heavyweight oil and gas groups to the Australian state of Queensland. Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips of the US, the UK
The Geological Survey and Mines Bureau yesterday said the displacement of plates which had resulted in the recent earthquakes in Indonesia had created a possibility of tsunamis. Geological Survey and Mines Bureau Deputy Director Geology S. M. A. T. B. Mudunkotuwa told the Daily Mirror that the movement of displaced …
With no outside help in sight, villagers used their bare hands on Sunday to dig out rotting corpses, four days after landslides triggered by a huge earthquake wiped out four hamlets in western Indonesia. Officials said at least 644 people were buried and presumed dead in the villages in Padang …
The powerful earthquake that struck off the west coast of Sumatra on September 30th, killing many hundreds of people and trapping thousands more under rubble, was not the giant seismologists had feared. But its impact was still horrendous to behold, and came after a few days when nature had wreaked …
Rescuers pulled two women alive from their collapsed college, nearly two days after a powerful earthquake devastated western Indonesia, as cries for help from a flattened hotel spurred the frantic search for more survivors on Friday. One of the survivors high-fived her rescuers as they carried her to safety. The …
Forests are power bases, but often for the wrong people. As attention turns from making an international deal on REDD to making it work on the ground, the hunt will be on for practical ways of shifting power over forests towards those who enable and pursue sustainable forest-linked livelihoods. The …
The last three decades witnessed a cascade of scientific discoveries on plant molecular biology and biochemistry that served as foundation of current biotechnologies used in improving agricultural crops. Genes coding for important agricultural traits useful to farmers and consumers were discovered, isolated and introduced into cultivated crops using modern tools …
Thousands of people lay trapped beneath rubble and at least 75 were killed after a powerful earthquake devastated swathes of Indonesia's West Sumatra province, according to government officials. The quake came after south Pacific communities were hit earlier yesterday by a deadly tsunami, triggered by a separate sub-sea earthquake off …
This paper describes the changes in official policy on riverside development in Surabaya, negotiated by the residents of low-income riverside settlements through their organization, Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya (PWS). They shifted the official policy from relocation to redevelopment by organizing the riverside communities and by developing their own proposals to …
VIEW FINDER NOT A USUAL EXERCISE Soldiers smell the ground to detect bodies of flash flood victims in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot battered the island"s southern region in the second week of August. The typhoon, which Met officials call the deadliest in 50 years, also triggered mudslides; one such mudslide …
A summit of world leaders has dimmed hopes for a strong new U.N. climate pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen in December, with details looking ever more likely to be left for 2010. But climate change experts and observers also refused to focus on the negative, noting that …
