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 …
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. …
State-of-the-art technology may save Asian wildlife: satellite tracking was introduced in the continent to prove this point. Recently, an electronic microchip was attached to a radio transmitter in a collar, strapped around the neck of a rogue elephant which was relocated to a protected forest area of Malaysia. This pilot …
An incro number of privately-man aged wildlife reserves are emerging in South Africa Among the bigger names are Shamwari in the eastern Cape region and the four wildlife reserves run by the Johannesburg-based conservation Corporation. Adrian Gardiner, the mastermind behind Shamwari, set about his mission investing his own money and …
High cotton prices in the US is proiNG beneficial for the Pakistani cotton growers as their cheaper cotton finds favour in Asian trade circles. with sizable amount earmarked for exports, Pakistani coarse Afzal cotton and a finer grade of cotton identified as I! is now being sold in huge balefuls …
Environment and business often make good partners. This has been amply demonstrated by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Madagascar. The Organisation there buys up commercial debts available at a discount in minor markets. It then pressurises the government to allocate funds to protect Madagascar's ecosystem. This arrangement has …
A major programme of beekeeping and sericulture has been launched by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Kenya. The project, it hopes, will alleviate rural poverty through small-scale incomegenerating enterprises. They will market honey, silk and wax to cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. For the first time …
Amidst the gloom caused by dwindling forests in eastern Paraguay, occasional success stories do emerge to cheer environmentalists. One such model of conservation is the Mbaracayu Nature Reserve, a dense subtropical mix of hardwoods, grasslands and wetlands which houses thousands of species of plants and animals, some extinct or severely …
ETHIOPIA, one of the poorest nations of the world, contains a treasure trove of a particular plant species - C arabica, a coffee germplasm. But it cannot develop the germplasm commercially and mint money by selling high-tech coffee varieties to the rich inclustrialised countries. This is because Escagenetics Corp, a …
THE extraction, transportation and conversion of fuels and the end-use of energy have resulted in a wide range of environmental problems. It is tempting to believe that development is the most significant cause of the problem. But, the book under review maintains that development by its very definition is the …
Crash H - bomb The French government's move to carry out nuclear tests in spite of protests from many countries and environmentalists lends a great amount of curiosity to Richard Rhode's book, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. In this riveting book, he tells the H-bomb. He reveals …
THE war over getting the largest share of the depleting fish stocks seems to have crawled to a settlement, with the European Union (EV) ministers agreeing on measures to control fishing in the western waters of the British Isles. Portugal and Spain have been allowed to gain greater access to …
SCIENTISTS from Britain and six other countries have 4 together in unprecedented venture to um the mysteries a world's past dim They will sail os world's largest and most techmi cally advanced scientific drill Ship Joides Resolution - to the Arctic and drill deep into the ocean kX carry out …
GREEN POWER: The greening of the Rs 300 crore Venkatesbwara Hatcheries (VH) has begun. The company's first windfarm with four 225 kw mills started whirring in power from September. This windfarm will provide 'the entire one mw power required for its Tamil Nadu units, and protect it from future power …
The coral reefs off the coast of Thailand may yet be saved because of joint action by conservationists and villagers. A case in point is the village of Sikao in Trang province of southern Thailand where 50 families joined by villagers in 11 other Thai provinces are making a beginning …
In what is termed as the world's highest by electric power Station and also an exi smalls"le power plants, the 600 KW project in Thame, at an altitude of 12,000 feet near the Mount Everest base camp was recently inaugurated in Nepal. The completion of this project would perhaps make …
A SURVEY by the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, ministry of rural development revealed that 78 per cent of the 2,769 habitations in 18 districts of Uttar Pradesh lacked safe sources of drinking water. The study, assessing the position of potable water in the rural residences, was done in …
THE Birla Technical Service - a division of the National Engineering Industries - has formed a new joint venture company with Parsons group of the us for a World Bank (WB) funded environmental study on supplying better civic ser- vices in Madras and latter setting up a better system. The …
The Pakistim government's Private Softw are ExpoW Board (PSEB) has solicited bids fro international top guns in the computt field to set up software technology PAN in the country. The parks will cater needs of the software companig according to Shahid Mir, managing director, PSEB. attract foreign investments, the government …
Local and tional pharmaceutipanies are making a for South Africa's nal heating systems. v in demand are the Vas and Nyangas, the iniam branches of healers P were once. regarded as cinoners of mumbo kbo- In the last few whs at least four pharma " companies have vis the offices …
