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 Asian continent suffers from serious problems in the areas of urban environmental degradation, industrial pollution, atmospheric emissions and loss of habitat among others • Industrialisation has been a key factor in downgrading Asian environment. The message has always been to
A survey of five regional hospitals in 1983 found that over seven per cent of total poisoning cases were occupationally related. In 1984, a survey showed that the average lead level in the blood of workers at a Thai battery plant was in the range of 12 to 48 milligrammes …
asia"s race to become more industrial and economically privileged has had its fall outs. The picture is none too pretty: more population, more poverty, more air, water and noise pollution, continuing resource depletion, less ecological diversity, all plague the continent. Some areas have localised problems like the danger of rising …
the future of Indian lions and tigers was said to be bleak. Some us scientists had reported extremely low genetic diversity in their populations, that made their conservation difficult. They would meet the same fate as that of the almost extinct African Cheetah, it was being said. But some Indian …
RECENT findings of a regional TRAFFIC (a joint programme of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature and the World Conservation Union) has expressed concern that trade in bear organs may continue to place pressure on the declining wild bear population, especially in Asia. East Asia is the centre for the …
Although wild crocodiles are considered endangered, the prospects for growth in the crocodile farming business really looks good in Siem Reap, Cambodia - up to 1,350 per cent, Nao Thuok, who is the deputy director of the fisheries department -also popularly known as the Crocodile Man - promotes raising crocodiles …
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BHANUSINGHA GHOSH out of a world population of 5,384 million in 1991, about 43 per cent lived in urban areas. Current projections based on the data assembled by the United Nations predict that by the year 2005, more than half of the world would be living in urban areas. Most …
herbal medicines are taking a toll of rare plants in several Asian countries. According to a new study conducted by the British firm McAlpine, Thorpe and Warrier, and supported by botanists, 18 species of plants are facing extinction due to sales of herbal potions, growing by more than 10 per …
The ongoing dispute between the US and four Asian nations over shrimp exports will now be decided by a panel which was recently appointed by the World Trade Organization. Lost year, the US had passed a law which prevents shrimp exports from India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Thailand unless they take …
• Parts of Europe and Asia including China will see more acidification in their environment in the coming years. •Agricultural land will expand from approximately 37 per cent of the total land area presently to around 50 per cent by 2050. The highest increases are projected to take place in …
mans nilsson How much do environmental issues really cost us every year? Is it possible that the environmental damage arising from the production and consumption of goods and services in our society is so costly that in some cases it offsets the welfare gains from the very same production and …
THE Amazon region in SouthAmerica is being invaded inhordes by huge Asian loggingcompaniesscaring environmentalists and local loggingoutfits. ProceedingfromMyanmarIndonesiaMalaysiaPhilippines and Korea -where they have already devastated more than 50 per cent ofthe original wood areas -these companies are said tohave bought at least 1.5 million ha of forest lands in theBrazilian …
The Gulf waters are turning murkier day by day with illegal waste being dumped by ships in sea, mak ing it unfit for marine life. Wastes from large vessels, which sail through the Gulf or anchor there, find their way into the sea in violation of local rules. The sea …
Copper bracelets are currently riding the crest of popularity in Asia. The bracelets' manufacturers claim that discomfort from all types of arthritis is relieved by wearing the copper band next to the skin. Even more remarkable, those not suffering form arthritis have been sporting the bracelet in hopes of reducing …
Asia's first drug information network has become operational in Kathmandu from September 23. The network aims at providing pharmacists, students, researchers, consumers and patients among others, information pertaining to drugs like regulatory mechanisms, dosage, storage, availability, prices etc. It can be accessed through telephone, mail or person-to-person contact. The network …
that Asia is being used as a dumping ground for the developed world's rubbish has been brought to the fore yet again. A us 200-tonne shipment of waste has wound its way to the port of Hong Kong after it was turned away from China where it was first sent …
New findings by scientists at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, US, and the University of GuizhouinChina, have indicated that a collection of fossils known as Peking Man, is at least 100,000 years older than believed. These discoveries could further explairi the evolutioll of humans in Asia. They …
MORE than 100 representatives Of NGOS from 20 Asian and Pacific countries predicted a gloomy future for Asian food stocks, when they recently held a two- day meeting in Bangkok to draft a regional platform in preparation for the World Food Summit in November. As more Asian countries jump on …
