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 …
Scientists have been issuing warnings about the havoc acid rain could play with the environment. Now archaeologists have also joined the campaign. They have done so because the eruption of Mount Katla - a volcano in south-east Iceland - 3,000 years ago, had let out enormous quantities of acid and …
The parliamentary elections are just around the corner and activists throughout the country are keen to project the environment as an issue before the electorate. The first to do so was the National Alliance of Peoples Movements, which recently concluded its yatra in Wardha, Maharashtra. Two more campaigns have quickly …
Recently, China has received US $3 billion to support its forthcoming Cross-Century Green Project - the biggest contributors being the World Rank, the Asian Development Bank and Japan. This was stated by Xia Kunbao, director, International Cooperation of the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA). The country is proposing drastic measures …
AROUND 2,000 teddy bear-like, adorable koalas, which could have possibly been killed, have won a reprieve. A boom in, the koala population on Kangaroo Island, 160 kin southwest of Adelaide, forced South Australia's national parks and wildlife service to tome to a painful decision of either having to kill the …
Dioxins and fLirans. two deadly by- products of medical waste incineration, form directly from chlorine and chlorinated products which are present in much larger volumes in medical wastes than in municipal wastes. Chlorinated products in medical wastes would typically include catheters, gloves and blood bags. A two year study conducted …
HAEMOGLOBIN, the blood's red pigment which was until now thought to transport only oxygen to and bring out carbon dioxide from the body's tissues, has now been credited with yet another major function. In a finding that could mean a new look at treating disorders like blood pressure and a …
MANAGED by the Danish Polar Centre - a monitoring and research body in the country -ZERO is located in the Zackenberg mountains of the national park (NP) in northeast Greenland. According to scientists at the station, the pristine conditions of the park will prove to be an excellent site to …
Researchers at the National Institute of Traditional Medicine, Bhutan, have discovered a plant substitute for musk, originally obtained from the musk deer. Known as Delphinium brunonianumor, traditionally, Bya-rgodspos, the plant is an erect hairy species groWing upto a height of 20 cm. Its chemical contents match that of musk, an …
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink! This could very soon turn into a global reality according to the UN. Some 80 countries and 40 per cent of the world's population are already in the throes of a 'water stress'. Said Wally N'Dow, secretary general of the forthcoming …
PROVIDING yourself with an insurance cover may not be all that easy in the near future. Insurance companies are now looking at the prospect of genetic testing to weed out high risk people or else insisting on their payment of higher premiums. This will then allow insurance companies to compensate …
AS POLITICAL parties got busy cleaning and covering up their corrupt records, or exposing their rivals' misdeeds, grassroots issues were pushed to the back-burner once again during this election. Undeterred, a few still tried to push for a people's agenda. An eyecatcher was the colourful rally by the tribals of …
TUBERCULOSIS (TB) germs are working quietly and speedily with single-minded devotion to ensnare as many humans in their killing net as possible. This is the horrific future as revealed by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 21 this year in London, UK. Warning of a new drug-resistant strain of …
IN THE recent tug-of-war over viable methods of waste disposal in India, the Supreme Court ruling ordering hospi- tals with over 50 beds to instal incine- rators, has infuriated the anti-incineration lobby. Activists and scientists from Delhi to Mumbai are up in arms against the installation and use of municipal …
Corning Incorporated of the US has introduced an automobile pollution-control system aimed at controlling cold start emissions. These emissions spew hydrocarbons in the first few minutes after starting the engine and before the catalytic converter becomes hot enough to operate. Cold start emissions account for 70-80 per cent of the …
ANIL AGARWAL: I was very impressed when I read your paper Reforms for the Indian Administrative Service. You have been quite critical of the IAS, although you too belong to it. But I was struck by one omission in your paper. You have been deeply interested in natural resource management …
THE exhibition of Jerry Uelsmarin's photomontages featured the photographs taken by him over the past 35 years, documenting his contribution to 20th-century art. Uelsmann's works trigger a response, but never quite reveal their meaning. He is a master of illusion. An understanding of his difficult-to- comprehend style will perhaps be …
How did the primordial soup of amino acids and other molecules organise themselves into a living cell? How do galaxies and other structures form when there is an inexorable tendency towards disorder? Reductionist sciencc, which has held sway since the time of Newton - and has helped us gain an …
THE homeland of the Ogonis - Nigeria - has yielded yet another sizable reserve of oil, this time below the waters off its coasts. Royal Dutch/Shell, which conducts major oil exploration operations in the country, confirmed the off-shore find on March 11. The find was in an area called Bongo …
IN-A bid to crack the elusive ways of the giant squid, the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) under the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, us, is mounting a giant expedition in the south Pacific near New Zealand, to study the creature in its natural habitat. Marine biologists from New Zealand …
