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 …
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 …
consumer protection and environmental regulations are quite an important part of the economic agenda of developed countries today. It is the pressure created by activists, environmental groups and various non-government organisations that has brought about this shift. But in this age of free market economy and trade liberalisation, the dialectical …
Receiving a Wildscreen Panda award is perhaps much more than music to the ears of a team that started off in 1988 by making ad jingles. Eight years later, Nikhil and Niret Alva have bagged what is more popularly known as the green Oscar for the series their com pany, …
while reviewing the final manuscript of Slow Murder: The Deadly Story of Vehicular Pollution in India prepared by my colleagues Anju Sharma and Anumita Roychowdhury, a thought about the toxicity of the Western economic dream came to my mind . Western societies have been able to survive and acquire some …
in a bid to restore consumer confidence, shaken to core due to the mad cow disease, the European Commission has agreed to a scheme wherein all eu cattle and products will be labelled and provided with a compulsory passport. The labels will carry the animal's place of birth, sex, method …
computers are making their mark even in the field of environmental studies. Simulations of air, water and soil contamination are becoming popular methods for studying the environment. Such models are known to be precise and cheap. Recent work in the Chesapeake bay, in the us , indicates that computers can …
as the koala (a marsupial resembling a small bear) population surges ahead, desperate measures are being called for. The latest one includes contraception where the male koalas will be given vasectomies and females provided with hormone implantations to stop them from ovulating. The three-year trial is to start this month …
science has taken a knocking. Thrifty funds and a messy peer review structure, among others, have served to forecast a gloomy future for science in the coming millennium, according to a group of us and uk scientists who met in Washington recently. "The crisis of funding is real. Science has …
native rights are about to get tossed around with the new conservative federal government in Australia bringing in a set of proposed legislative amendments. Effectively, the amendments to the three-year-old Native Title Act would mean that in cases of disputes between aboriginal native title claimants and companies, the government can …
hiv -positive mothers double the risks of passing hiv to their babies through breast milk, suggests a controversial South African study. Breastfeeding is believed to be the best prevention against diarrhoeal or respiratory diseases which claim the lives of thousands of infants in developing countries. The danger of hiv infection …
The European Court of Justice ruled recently that economic requirements need not be considered while allocating and defining the boundaries of an environmental special protection area. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( rspb ), uk , had challenged the UK environment secretary's decision to designate the Medway …
it could take something as simple as iron supplements to combat the spectre of global warming. It was John H Martin, an ocean scientist who had first suggested that fertilising the seas with thousands of tonnes of iron compounds could result in the sudden spurt of marine plant organisms called …
at long last, the World Bank ( wb ) has admitted to serious lapses in its methods for screening projects which could have possible ecological side-effects. However, it tried to defend itself by stating that without wb the environment could be even worse off. Said Andrew Steer, director of the …
he has finally come out in his true colours. Prime Minister ( pm ) H D Deve Gowda's recent tirade against greens is disgusting, but this should have been expected. He has only re-affirmed what he had once advised a campaigner of the Centre for Science and Environment: environmentalists are …
those who are aware of the renowned industrial designer Victor Papnek's views on industrial design realise that to live in a world with more design consciousness and less design awareness is the predicament of modern times. Nonetheless, writing something which reads like a critique of industrial design is by no …
From the time it was formed during 1991-92, Project Elephant has not done much by way of conserving either the elephant or its habitat. At least one elephant is still killed every day, according to the psc report. There has not been any significant rise in elephant population. Habitat loss …
environment groups in Israel will no longer have a free access to the government's environment ministry. Nehama Ronen, the new director-general of the ministry, maintains that environmental organisations should represent environmental interests and nothing else and that being party to the formulation of policy compromises the greens. The government position …
pockets of virus-carrying mosquitoes have swarmed large areas of New England in north-east us . Alert public health officials who spotted the sudden spurt in mosquito population are now doubling efforts to contain the spread. What is causing alarm is that these mosquitoes are infected with potentially deadly viruses which …
