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 …
environmental commitments made by most nations at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, five years ago, have remained on paper even as carbon dioxide emissions soared and forests and animal species continued to vanish. These are the findings of a report prepared by the Earth Council, a Washington-based …
"your well-documented account of the circumstances which led to your contracting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma was moving. It is particularly sad that you should be the one affected as you have been in the forefront of the environment movement and have opened our eyes with reference to the damage we are causing …
• Some people think that they are born only to protect the environment in this country and that God has sent them to this earth only to protect the environment... as if we are not interested in the environment." Prime Minister's (pm) statement at the meeting of state power ministers …
With a military background, how did you land up in politics? I was in the Navy for 15 years since 1949. During the China war, I wanted to fight for the nation. I appeared in an open selection and was commissioned. Following the victory against Pakistan in 1969, I retired …
Less water is one reason why some homeowners cannot install a fire sprinkler system. Soon, they may have another option, a mist system. The water droplets produced by a conventional sprinkler nozzle are larger than 1,000 microns. A mist nozzle propels water through a much smaller orifice to create droplets …
M K Prasad, Kerala Shastra Sahitya Parishad: Prime Minister (pm) Deve Gowda's statement reflects his illiteracy and utter disregard for democracy. Ashok Khosla and S K Sharma, Development Alternatives, New Delhi: We agree that all pm s should be accountable to the people for their deeds. Chandan Datta, Society for …
Huge reserves of gas have been found in the south-western part of Bangladesh, assessed to become the largest ever in the country. According to a Canadian study document released early this month, the finds extend over the known hydrocarbon prospective areas from the east to the west and the south …
what exactly does it mean for someone to be environmentally conscious? As an experiment, list the first few causes of environmental damage that are uppermost in your mind, or ask an environmentalist to do the same. What are these typical damages likely to be: Industrial waste? Pollution by vehicles? Receding …
this book is about transnational environmental activist groups. It describes their politics and analyses the strategies they employ to bring the environment to the forefront. The focal point of the book is that the efforts of transnational environmental activist groups at lobbying with states is but one approach to environmental …
What did Bhopal teach us? In his book, Corporate Environmental Strategy: The Avalanche of Change Since Bhopal (John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1995), author Bruce W Piasecki has explored the genesis and extent of corporate change in environmental policies of representative multinationals (including Union Carbide or UC). Bhopal served …
1956: Discovery of Minamata disease 1959: Kumamoto University announces its organic mercury theory; Fisherfolks' agitation; Hosokawa feeds cats with the waste effluent from Chisso's acetaldehyde production unit and induces Minamata disease symptoms in them; the factory effluent theory is termed a fabrication by labour unions and the Chamber of Commerce …
Scientists at the Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences dipas), New Delhi, have recently developed a gas mask containing five per cent carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) and 95 per cent oxygen ( O 2 ), that reduces hearing loss among industrial workers. dipas director, W Selwamurthy said …
a bloody war is brewing within the portals of the United Nations as two un bodies, the Food and Agricultural Organization (fao) and the un Environment Programme (unep) fight for the control of the world's plant genetic resources. While the recently held World Food Summit in Rome (Down To Earth, …
The popular concern for environment among the US public peaked in 1989. The membership and financial assets of a number of prominent national environment advocacy and action organisations, such as the National Resources Defense Council, the National Audobon Society, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society and the Nature Conservancy, had …
it is ironical that the degree of environmental degradation is yet unmeasured in many countries. This is despite the fact that with just a few years to go for this millennium's end, issues on environment have apparently constituted a particularly relevant agenda in the world. The latter development, undoubtedly, is …
an english seaside resort when the summer has gone, the day is dull, and the gray sea rolls onto empty beaches, is a stern test of morale and spirit for any bouncy extrovert, even for politicians. Yet, the politicians of this so-called home of parliamentary democracy scarify their souls every …
This paper attempts to present the linkages between irrigated agriculture, human health and the environment based on a review of data available from Sri Lanka.
The Visthapit Mukti Vahini (VMV) had its origins in protests against the adverse environmental and social impact of the Ichha and Chandil dams in Bihar, in 1978. The latest attack mounted on its members has been the one on Arvind Anjum because of his role in opposing the Subarnarekha Multipurpose …
