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 …
Once a symbol of the emperor, Thai elephants have been reduced to penury and beggary. Loss of habitat and livelihood has driven these elephants to the streets of Bangkok. The capital's crowded streets and the vehicular and noise pollution are taking a toll on the elephants, especially the younger ones. …
FIVE projects in the country are under review as per the recent Supreme Court order directing the Central government to appoint separate scientific teams to verify the environmental viability of Cogentrix in Karnataka and four other projects. The apex court asked the Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute's director P …
ABORTED foetuses are the new tools to cure blindness. Researchers transplanted light-sensitive cells from the eyes of aborted foetuses into the eyes of blind adults, enabling them to see partially. Though the experiments have not restored complete vision, its preliminary success have buoyed hopes about future endeavours. The adults who …
AFTER the passage of almost a decade since its conception, the 4,060-mw Indo-Bhutan Sankosh hydel project finally seems to be taking off. The Water and Power Consultancy Services (WAPCOS), a government of India undertaking, has recently conducted an environment impact assessment of the project and according to S Mukherjee, head, …
UNDER the initiative of the us-based Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (cgiar), a new global agricultural research system involving greater coordination with farmers and indigenous communities in the developing world has been agreed to. Said Ismail Serageldin, chairperson, cgiar, "The era of research which produces technological innovation without reference …
AS I write a lot of anxious people are looking at the New York stock market for unhealthy signs; a crash actually, since America's financial wealth appears to have increased by more than the entire annual output of Germany in less than two years. Not being an owner of investments, …
THERE was a time when everybody involved with development knew exactly what to do. Rival camps disagreed with each other but were at least confident that they themselves were right and everyone else wrong. Today, with the exception of the International Monetary Fund and human rights campaigners, the worm of …
Are you wondering if science could lead you to the right career or is it something that is boring you to death? Well, you might even be of the opinion that science is all about being an engineer, doctor or scientist. Careers In Science: A Complete Guide to a Successful …
With the world getting more and more integrated, economically and technologically, the economic sovereignty of nations is getting eroded and new multilateral rules are emerging. Particularly so in the field of trade and environment, and efforts are being made to develop similar rules in other areas like investment, wages and …
"the last thing this place needs is an environmental journalist,' a senior secretary of Karnataka's mining department had said, referring to Bellary. Situated in mid-eastern Karnataka, drought-prone Bellary district is home to the mineral-rich Sandur hills. Extensive deposits of iron and manganese ores, besides those of red oxide, platinum, copper, …
• Compulsory afforestation by lessees • Blanket ban on mining in forest areas • Revision of mining royalty rates concurrent with steel prices • Mandatory ecological measures on industrial lands such as groundwater recharging measures • Mandatory social welfare schemes • Incentives for R&D; in conservation technology
new forays into the much-heard-of link between smoking and cancer has established beyond doubt that there is a definite and clear relationship between the two. Researchers from the University of Texas and Beckman Research Institute, California, working on the p53 gene, which is known to prevent proliferation of cells leading …
green copies: RPG Ricoh Ltd, an Indo-Japanese joint venture company recently launched the FT 4027, a user-friendly and eco-conscious copier. In order to promote optimum use of available resources, the company has built in an auto response in the copier, which turns on the machine when the user approaches and …
After Japan and the us , it is the turn of China. Months of secrecy later, Chinese health officials have confirmed that a certain brand of a common blood product called serum albumin, produced by a military factory, was contaminated with the aids virus. Four months ago, the ministry of …
a new United Nations ( un ) agency, set up primarily to resolve conflicts of the sea, has taken shape. Inaugurated mid-October in Hamburg by the un secretary general, Boutros Boutros Ghali, the tribunal will administer the un Convention on the Law of the Sea ( unclos ) to solve …
environment does not respect political boundaries and, therefore, environmental journalists are truly internationalists, or they ought to be. This privilege at the same time calls for certain responsibilities. One key responsibility is to create a just communication order. A sense of justice is central to the environmental concern. But have …
