UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
The Israel-Palestinian conflict has left its ugly mark on a contest to choose the seven natural wonders of the world. The contest will not feature the Dead Sea because Israel and Palestine are at loggerheads over a committee to support the claims of the world
Israel has pledged support to a project for growing olive at Sirsa ( Haryana). Technology transfer and funds to the tune of Rs 15 crore have been offered to two projects, one at Sirsa and the other at Karnal, for growing fruits and vegetables more economically, said Ambassador of Israel …
The 1979 Egypt-Israeli peace deal has not done much for cultural relations between the two countries. Only two books in Hebrew have been translated into Arabic in Egypt. There are now plans for Arabic translations of Israeli writing. The decision comes in the wake of recent criticism of Egypt
Preeti Parashar : Farmers in Haryana can look forward to improving productivity of their fields by using latest technology as well as venture into high value crops by 2010. The state
The Israelis, who have helped India with some high-yielding farm technology, hi-tech defence equipment that includes the little guns of the Prime Minister
The development of rural India will, in all likelihood, be one of largest and most significant undertakings this century. Given the democratic nature of governance in the country and the decisive influence of the rural voter on electoral outcomes, such development is a political imperative that entails vast economic opportunity-for …
In a region already considered the world's most water scarce and where, in many places, demand for water already outstrips supply, climate models are predicting a hotter, drier and less predictable climate in the Middle East. By redrawing maps of water availability, food security, disease prevalence, population distribution and coastal …
Hazards of the proposed canal The proposed canal, dubbed Two Seas Canal, will pump water from the Red Sea to a height of 230 m above sea level, transport it along the Araba valley and then run down into the Dead Sea. The downhill flow will be harnessed to generate …
They travelled from China to Turkey and then to Siberia, where they might have resettled TEN thousand years ago, the tiger reigned over Eurasia from the Sunda Islands of Indonesia to India to eastern Turkey and up north into Siberia. Environmental changes and human influence drove some of its subspecies
The modern tiger (Panthera tigris) is believed to have originated from East and Southeast Asia about two million years ago. This correlates with the family tree of the current study which shows the South China tiger is the oldest subspecies. The first subspecies to be given a scientific name was …
The United Nations warned as recently as last week that climate change harbours the potential for serious conflicts over water. In its World Water Development Report of March 2009, it quotes UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noting the risk of water scarcity
The Punjab Agro Industries Corporation (PFIC) has approved to grow olive on 400 acres. Punjab Agro earlier invited tender in the Economist to assess demand of olive cultivation to which six companies evinced interest. The corporation has selected Israeli company Indolive, which has set up olive orchards in six places …
Washington: According to senior American and foreign officials, President Bush had deflected a secret request by Israel last year for specialised bunker-busting bombs it wanted for an attack on Iran
Non-timber forest products (NTFP), whether consumed or marketed, represent a substantial value. NTFP are believed capable of alleviating poverty or at least helping maintain consumption levels while averting impoverishment. Communities find in forests edible and medicinal plants, meat, honey, fodder and fuel.
