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 …
"GOD is dead", had asserted Nietzsche, proclaiming the arrival of the age of rationality. It is true that for most people, "God" is the antidote to the fear of the unknown, a concept that accounts for all that is unexplainable. Therefore, it seems but natural that as science expands its …
Gopal Paliwal had always been intrigued by the complex physiology of wild or rock honeybees. Today, this 28-year old entomologist boasts of a doctorate (from Wardha University) on the neuroendocrine and reproductive sys- tems of the rockbee (Apis dorsata). Unlured by offers from pharmaceutical companies and research laboratories, Paliwal chose …
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JAPAN would now go for an increase in Green areas and environment-friendly by 20 per cent within five 'We do not have any magical way go& CM solve global environmental at once. We must do our best F seep in local communities where Tadamori Oshima, minister of agency of Japan, …
A water crisis could lie ahead for Asian nations, says a report by the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute. The shortage of water could have twin effects: a severe shortfall in rice production and a possible social conflict as competition hots up among industries, urban consumers and farmers in Asia …
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For the Nepalese, learning from the kangaroos on how to nurse newborn babies is paying oft. in reducing the infant mortality rate. Mothers are now taught to look after the,ir young ones, especially thosborn wIth low blrth-welght, m a manner sImilar to the kangaroo style of rearing their young 'roos'. …
The Sri Lankan forestry industry is in for a massive improvement with tIle Asian Development Bank approving a $60 million loan and $400,000 technical assistance granrecently. The grants will help the government to initiate reforms in the management of 23 regional plantation conipanies to increase productivity and global competitiv ness. …
A NEW technique known as minimally invasive direct coronary bypass surgery has been successfully tested last month at Lenox Hill hospital in Manhattan, us. Valavanur A Subramanian performed the delicate surgery on the heart as it continued to beat, instead of putting the patient on a heart-lung machine. This was …
IN KILLUKULAVAIPATTI village in the drought prone Pudukottai district of Tamil Nadu, M Thangappa - a 45 -year old marginal farmer - earns his livelihood from the thorny, bushy plant, Prosopis juliflora, popularly called Kattukaruvel. Like him, many subsistence farmers and landless labourers use juliflora not only as fuelwood, but …
THE European Commission (EC) has postponed the ban on importing furs of animals to the end of 1996. This one-year delay was chosen over the option of imposing the ban immediately on limited species only. According to officials, it was a question of implementing legislation with limited effect or with …
Released by the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on November 2 (see Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 14), these Hubble-captured snapshots hold up to the eye a mind-blowing, spectacular display of cosmic births. Monumental eerie pillars of interstellar hydrogen gas and dust - part of the 7,000 …
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ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT (ESA): Republican representatives in the K House have circulated the broad concept of the Endangered Species Conservation and Managent Act of 1995. The bill will limit illegal extermination of a species to killing the animal and will not includ habitat destruction. Republical senator from Washington, Sladl Gorton, …
The Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) has launched a ca paign in Durham, UK, against t1h Durham county council's plans t develop a number of the city's greel areas to attract new business an industry. The would-be clevelopel claim they have included a green be in their …
THE US Congress has declared a veritable war on the environment. This summer, it debated a series of rollbacks of federal laws protecting the environment. However, after losing crucial congressional battles earlier this year, environmentalists are now launching their own concerted counterattack. In the most killing blow to the environmental …
CABBAGE, once the favourite winter vegetable of the Chinese is seeing hard times. The ultimate insult has been heaped on it - it is being ignored and the new Chinese preferences include vegetables like spinach, broccoli, brinjal, cauliflower, tomatoes and garlic shoots. Earlier, winters meant cabbages being bought for the …
EVEN the malevolent AIDS virus has its Achilles heel. Australian scientific circles are abuzz with the discovery of a rare strain of the virus among a small group of people in Australia who not developed the killer disease de. having carried the virus for around years. The finding represents a …
The Chinise government announces an Investment of about us $17 billion in More than a thousand environmental Nis, during the next five years, so critics doubt the credibility of propeas. Xie Zhenhua, head, Real Environmental Protection 97 (%WA), announced this substan- Ipprease in environmental invest- i is November, in Beijing. …
