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 …
MODERN tissue Culture technology has come to the aid of the environment. Scientists in Australia's culture laboratories have developed a wonder tree - nicknamed Paulownia - which can help ease the ever-increasing environmental pressure caused by the demand for wood. The Paulownia has an incredibly high growth rate, is lighter …
• The Indian Council of Agricultural Research will 'set up 500 new centres through institution-village linkage for transferring technology to farmers. This was stated recently by P Das, deputy director-general (extension) of ICAR at Solan, Himachal Pradesh. • Inaugurating the 34th annual meeting of the Cement Manufacturers' Association at New …
MOVED from Goa to Gurnmiclipoondi near Madras in Tamil Nadu, the proposed Thapar-Dupont nylon 6,6 project has come under fire once again. Goan environmental activist Claude Alvares, who had been at the forefront of the struggle to oust the project from Goa, has pointed out that the project could prove …
The popular use of the term DNA 'fingerprinting' has resulted from normal fingerprinting becoming synonymous with crime detection. In any case, DNA profiling, which is the correct term for the method used in investigating Naina Sahni's murder-(and many other cases), had an ancestor in the Inspector General of Police of …
What is the main area of work of the International Joint Commission (IJC) and the purpose behind its creation? The International Joint Commission was created by a treaty between the United States and Canada, who agreed that neither country would pollute the waters on its own side of the lipe, …
"TERRAFORMING" is a verb coined roughly two decades ago by a hippiest club of Young American scientists, now braindead - let's call it Science Fiction for Optimists. Unless you know that a programme for "seeding" Mars with Earth bacteria and chemicals and transforming its hot, dry, anthropophobic atmosphere into a …
I am really sorry to see Kamal Nath go as the minister of state for forests and environment (mef). Though we rarely met in the recent past, I have come to regard him as a friend, our acquaintance beginning with the preparations for the Rio Earth Summit. I had found …
WHEN Bente Roestad began writing books about a mate octopus named Blekkulf in 1989, she couldn't have imagined that one day, Blekkulf would have 15,000 children across Norway joining him in his crusade to halt environmental degradation. It all began when as a little girl, Roestad had once watched fisherfolk …
Under the "Clean up the World" project -part of the UN environment programme -a clean-up campaign is being organised in Nepal's Kathmandu valley between September 15-17. The Nepal-Australia Friendship Society, in cooperation with the Australian Embassy, is behind the campaign. School children, scouts, social organisations, travel agents, hotels and businesspeople, …
The fourth UN world conference on women has been underway (September 4-15) in Beijing, China. Weighty -issues being discussed in the conference include action to alleviate poverty, abolishing slavery and prostitution, stopping violence against women, equality under the law and equal access to health care, education and jobs. Around 24,000 …
JAPAN has gone ahead and done what-it has been planning to do for 'more than a year now. On August 29, its first proto- type fast-breeder reactor - Monju - started generating power. Monju is the key reactor of the nation's nuclear recycling programme, informs the semi -governmental Power Reactor …
Recent research conducted by the scientists of the Shirdi Sai Baba Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, and Kasturba Medical College and Hospital, at Manipal in Karnataka, to study the mortality and incidence of cancer in children under 15 in Bombay, reveals that potential years of life are lost by major …
It has inspired poetry and ignited trade wars. First it was used for medicinal purposes. Later, it became the world's most popular beverage, and even a ritual in Japanese marriages. Of the 2 varieties, black and green, the former represents 95 per cent of the world's production. The Irish are …
Your institute has been trying to revive the traditional medicines in India. What have been the specific steps taken to popularise ethnomedicine? Have they been successful? Today, there's a revival of interest in traditional medicines and herbal therapy the world over. An overgrowing number of scientists are turning to nature, …
The book claims to be a "counter-factual" rebuke to the critics of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). But both the claim and the title of the book are misleading. First, in 5 short pages, the book devotes itself predominantly to the command areas and glosses over the submergence and downstream …
American scientists are trying their best to change the popular impression that they are all nerds. Standmuffins of Science is a 1996 calendar with boffins for models. The photographs show them exercising their muscles, not their brains, through skating and running. But they haven't discarded mentation altogether: biographical details under …
DECISIONS taken in USA, under the guise of marine joint venture projects, are having a devastating impact on the livelihood of the fisherfolk of India. The fisherfolk are set against the deep sea trawling by increasing numbers of foreign collaborations being carried out with the blessings of the Indian government. …
The Women's Environmental Network in Britain recently coordinated the launch of a National Breast Cancer Coalition, uniting breast cancer groups, health professionals, researchers, sufferers and survivors. Coalition members feel that the disease is, to a large extent, preventable, but has so far only figured on the agenda of some charities …
After overcoming the trials and tribulations engendered by apart heid, South Africa has turned its attention to an issue of equality that transcends race: empowering women to play an active role in the nation's political process. A proposal for intro-ducing reservation of seats for women in the country's legislatures is …
