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Disposing of nuclear waste
Issue Date: Feb 25, 2013
In the controversies surrounding nuclear energy, the issue of waste management is as prominent as reactor safety. It is particularly topical in the US since the 2010 closure of the Yucca Mountain repository project.
Polluted and revered
Issue Date: Feb 25, 2013
This book explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. It shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement.
How viable is nuclear energy
Issue Date: Feb 25, 2013
Nuclear power has been touted as possibly the most important source of energy for India. The dream of a nuclear powered India has been supported by huge financial budgets and high level political commitment for over six decades. Nuclear power has also been held out as safe, environmentally benign and cheap.
The oil bully
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2013
In 2009, a US court of appeals ordered Exxon Mobil, the largest publicly traded oil company, to pay $1 billion to the victims of 50,000 tonnes of oil spill in Alaska in 1989. But the US Supreme Court reduced the fine to $500 million following appeals by Exxon. The oil spill had damaged 2,100 km of the Alaskan coastline.
A search for a lost friend
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2013
Every time a book on Maoists and Chhattisgarh is released, I experience a curious mixture of excitement and yearning. As a journalist, I have found both Chhattisgarh and the Maoist rebels in the state intriguing. I harbour a desire to write about Chhattisgarh and the Maoists sometime.
Exxon's empire
Issue Date: Feb 4, 2013
Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power By Steve Coll, Penguin Press, US $36
A forensic look at the biggest and, by some measures, the most profitable of the Western “supermajor” oil companies.
Towards water sufficiency
Issue Date: Feb 4, 2013
Despite a long history and important role in development, irrigation in both India and Nepal faces crucial challenges. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows the range of irrigation technologies developed in different agro-ecological zones: large-scale public canal systems, small-scale farmer-managed canal systems, ponds and tanks, and also groundwater-based systems.
Inside a baobab tree
Issue Date: Feb 4, 2013
Africa’s most gifted wildlife film-maker recalls a lifetime watching hippos, termites and the world inside a baobab tree—and remembers how he lost a wife and many friends who died too young, but eventually found new love.
Livestock rearer deals with climate change
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2013
East African pastoralists have historically coped with seasonal and annual climatic variability. However, as climatic changes are intensifying in the region, their livestock-dependent livelihoods are ever more vulnerable to increasingly frequent droughts and other extreme events.
Pastoralist Voices on Climate Change illustrates the challenges that pastoralists face in a changing climate. It shows how dialogue between scientists, policy-makers, civil society and pastoralists in Kenya have helped the Masai community deal with climate change.
Trials at sea
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2013
Last January when Dutch teenager Laura Dekker became the youngest person to sail around the globe, her voyage caught media attention. But the focus of the world press was more on Dekker’s battle with reluctant Dutch authorities than on her sea tribulations.
