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 …
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 …
CONFUSION prevails over the actual extent of forests destroyed in the recent forest fires in the northern regions of the country, as the data provided by the ministCy of environment and forests and that received through satellite imagery stand at variance. While the latest figures with the ministry estimate a …
They may have rid themselves of the shackles of the oppressive apartheid regime, but freedom apparently still manages to elude the Blacks of South Africa. They have, in fact, been invaded and held captive by a dead lier foe: the AIDS virus. According to a recent study conducted by the …
WHILE scrapping the 2,015 mw, Rs 9,050-crore Dabhol Power Company's (DPC) Enron project, Maharashtra chief minister Manohar Joshi cited the lack of environmental con- cerns in its plan as one of the grounds for his drastic move. But energy and development experts like Kirit Parikh, director, Indira Gandhi Institute of …
THE Sikkim Himalaya stands square in the path of long-term ecological desecration today as the spectre of development looms over it. To tackle energy shortage, the Sikkim government has proposed a hydro-electric project across the Rathong Chu river meandering through Yuksam in west Sikkim. Sikkim has been classified as a …
IN A significant development, Goa"s environmentalists recently tasted success when the giant multinational linked DuPont chemical project opted to move out of the state following repeated protests. In the bargain, the lesson they learnt was that all differences have to be put aside and that politicians are undependable for green …
WHEN the giant comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed against Jupiter exactly a year ago and took the world of science by storm, it also created water. Researchers working with Italy's National Research Council have been monitoring the impact, using a radio telescope equipped with a high-speed spectrometer. And they now claim …
Danny Denzongpa, who acted the villain in countless Hindi films, is playing a hero in real life. He is gathering support for a group called the Concerned Citizens of Sikkim. The group is campaigning against the construction of a 30 MW hydel power project in the Yuksam valley, in west …
Bharatnatyam dancer Komala Vardhan, who performed a dance recital on the World Environment Day in Delhi has been staging her composition Prakritim Vande, which is a tribute to the environment, in cities in the South. Her composition has been highly acclaimed by the local media in Madras.
With the delayed monsoons and the threat of drought looming large over India, K 81kram Singh's first independent feature film, Tarpan, was premiered in July at the most appropriate time. Singh uses tarpan - the practice of offering water to the dead ancestors - as a metaphor to relate how …
THE title is misleading and merely a guise for the World Bank's preoccupation with its "reforms" or its spearhead Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). The book seems to be a product of the World Bank's made-to-order research industry with a common and predictable motive framework and outcome. It conceals a lack …
Fairy tales should be free of bias, believes James Finn Garner. And so he has written a book: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. He has attempted to rewrite the classics in a form that is totally free from bias and the influences of a flawed cultural past, even if this effort …
Tribal leader B D Sharma explains the adverse consequences of the new economic policy on the tribal people in Globalisation: The Tribal Encounter. It vividly brings out their reaction to the emerging situation and their views on the Bodhghat ownership and, endorses forcefully their right to part ownership of industry …
THE Congress (I) government rode to power opposing the Bharatiya Janata Party's (bjp) plan of setting up 16 mini and 3 big cement plants in Himachal Pradesh. Now the same government under Virbhadra Singh suddenly diverted from its declared policy by sanctioning 3 cement plants of 1 million metric tonnes …
HILLY areas denuded for the sake of development can now be greened again, thanks to a new technology evolved by the G B Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Almora under the aegis of the ministry of environment and forests. The Sloping Watershed Environmental Engineering Technology (SWEET) as the …
ANOTHER power project has caught the eye of the greens. This time, it is the us power giant Cogentrix's plans to set up a 1,000 mw plant in the forests of the Western Ghats near Mangalore in Karnataka. Environmentalists contend that the Rs 4,387 crore plant could cause acid rain …
THE men in uniform have found a n& vocation: that of taking care of the environment. The army unit stationed at Madras - in their bid to green the city - is setting up a 'zodiacal park' at the local Island Grounds. Traditionally used as a logistical base for army …
Peru is about to revolutionise its land laws. A new agriculture law introduced, on July 17 by the government eliminates all limits on land-holding throughout the nation. it sweeps away the last remnants of the "land reform" law imposed 27 years ago by the erstwhile left-wing military regime of General …
RECENT findings by a group of American researchers suggest that even the remote continent of Antarctica exhibits evidence of contamination, mainly due to scientific support activities, an ever increasing number of visitors, ship operations, atmospheric fallout and disposal practices. And all these pose a serious threat to the marine environment …
THIS is possible only in Japan, perhaps. Some sage wrote scriptures on a piece of paper in 1247. And 487 years later, the same paper was used by a scholar for taking down notes. If you don't believe this, see it for yourself in the Paper Museum in Tokyo. Japan …
