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 …
THE Association of South East Asko Nations (ASEAN) has finally succeeded IN forcing the us to see reason. After resisting it for a decade, the us government has agreed to sign a treaty which will establish southeast Asia as a nuclear-free zone; it will be marked as a region in …
THE Gorongosa is being suffocated Slowly. Illegal mahogany-felling operations in and around this timber-rich national park of Mozambique is threatening to devastate the region's fragile ecology. There are about 7 timber interests cutting in the area, some licensed by the government and some not; despite the visible evidence of largescalt …
The slasb-and-burn method of cultivation is ecologically disastrous and economically fruitless for the tribals. To provide a viable alternative to this shifting cultivation, the Social Forestry Project of Orissa in collaboration with the Swedish International Development Agency chose 14 landless tribals in Bhatiguda village of the state as beneficiaries under …
MELANCHOLIA, with its miasma of tearful pomp and self-flagellating candour, is turning out to be the US's most unforgettable characteristic. Take Republican senator Bob Dole. "I regret that we have failed the American people again," he said, honking of elephantine angst. His attempts 'last month to ram the Regulatory Reform …
Primitive men still exist in this modern era. In Indonesia a tribe has been discovered which still dwells in trees and actually practices cannibalism. The tribesmen were spotted in tree houses in the easternmost island of Indonesia, Irian Jaya. The area is called Merauke and it borders Papua New Guinea …
Research is not magic, solutions take a long time There is a trend towards having speciallsed animals and crops in the inclustrialised countries. The developing countries have tried to incorporate this by importing upgraded species, but the attempt has produced mixed results. Why? Imported crops and animals face the problem …
THIS small book is a fairly detailed technoeconomic analysis of the Enron controversy and raises some interesting questions. Apart from the problems of high capital cost and high load factor guarantee, it brings out 2 facts not generally known. First, Dabhol Power Corporation (DPC), a subsidiary set up by Enron …
" Four legs good! Two legs bad!" -Animal Farm FOR a certain section of society the world over, George Orwell's satirical statement is a maxim to live by and defend, by fair means or foul. When the Prince of Wales recently found a rat trap baited with razor blades and …
What is wrong with progress and development? Can they be the culprits in a process that has wrought gradual marginalisation of the tribal people? Suresh Sharma asserts that the modern world with science and technology as its strong supporters has dealt most cruelly with a race that took nature as …
One of the country's best illustrators, Suddhasattwa Basu. has decided to use animation to promote social messages. His 16mm film Rakhee and Mausee is a story that aims to empower women. Basu tackles this dry subject in an entertaining visual and narrative element. He and his team are working on …
Madhu K S of IIT Bombay has designed houses for slum dwellers which integrate lighting and ventilation concepts to provide better living conditions. This got Madhu the first prize in a lighting design competition organised by the Indian Society of lighting Engineers. This project shows how lighting design can combine …
The Platform for Action is an agenda for women’s empowerment. It aims at accelerating the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women and at removing all the obstacles to women’s active participation in all spheres of public and private life through a full and equal share …
INDUSTRY SAYS ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAY It'll join national reforestation efforts It is welcome, but should encourage farmers to grow trees on low productivity land Government's reforestation efforts have failed Industry's refusal to buy wood at fair prices led to the failure of form forestry Industry can contribute money Not really. Most …
WALTER FERNANDES: Indian Social Institute, New Delhi RAJIV BUDDHIRAJA: Secretary, Indian Paper Makers" Association RAJ CHAURASIA: General Manager, Ballarpur Industries Ltd., in-charge of raw materials co-ordination PIARELAL: Vice-president, (Plantations), iTc Bhadrachalam Paperboards Ltd; also, chairperson of the Raw Materials Subcommittee of the Indian Paper Makers"Association UDAYAN BANERJEE: Chiefforestry Advisor, Titagarh …
Friends of the Earth - Europe's 'Sustainable Europe Campaign', launched in November 199j, entered its second phase recently. The campaign aims at enhancing the development and diffusion of concrete ideas on sustainable development among all the key social groups: business, industry, NGOs, trade unions and other institutions. National teams from …
FIFTEEN years of tough struggle have today borne fruit ... rather, trees. This is a saga of forest regeneration through local initiative in Chharadan village of Midnapore district. And the hero of the saga is Madan Khatua, whose mantra through these years was to save the forests from avaricious fellers. …
JULY 31 came and went, without the first meeting of the special committee of ministers, set up to decide upon the fate of the environment and forest ministry's (MEF) controversial captive plantations proposal, taking place. The issue still hangs fire. The committee of 7 Cabinet ministers was formed on July …
• A review by C Gopalan, president of the Nutrition Foundation of-India, New Delhi, attributes the high incidence of coronary heart diseases in Delhi to increasing air pollution. To promote eco-tourism in the country, the ministry of environment and forests is proposing a ceiling on the number of tourists visiting …
A consortium of4 NGOs has set up this Himalayan kingdom's first community radio - 'Radio Everest' - to spread messages related to development, environmental protection and cultural harmony. If the experiment turns out to be a success, the consortium hopes to support similar NGOs in rural area& to set up …
