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Special Report
Inhumanly polluted
Issue Date: Jul 15, 1996
THE Arctic islands of Svalbard may be far from the madding crowd but are more polluted. Birds nesting on this last stop before the North Pole produce highly toxic faeces which build up layers of heavy metals on lake shores and peat bogs. And fish in the islands' many lakes contain more poisonous mercury and toxic organo chlorines such as pesticides than any in Europe.
The genepool war
Issue Date: Jun 30, 1996
WHO should control the samples of
germplasms that originated in the
forests and wildlands of the developing
countries, but are now preserved in the
laboratories and seed banks of the
industrialised nations? Who owns these
precious plant genetic resources (PGR),
that are vital for ensuring the planet's
future food security? The Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), a body
of the uN, is all set to tackle these highly
sensitive issues in a series of meetings
A real cool dude!
Issue Date: Jun 30, 1996
WITH the deadline to phase out ozone
depleting substances (ODS) of the industrialised nations of the world already
getting over, the countdown for developing nations has begun. As if to signal
the urgency, an international conference on eco -refrigeration - fridges
using chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) substitutes - was held in New Delhi this
February.
The unsilenced valley
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1996
VISITORS to the remote Sondwa block of Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh (MP) are often taken aback by the sight of water scaling the steep hills to irrigate fields. This seeming defiance of the law of gravity is a system devised by Bhil tribals which takes advantage of the peculiarities of the terrain to divert water from swiftly flowing hilly streams into irrigation channels called pats.
Uproar over a burning issue
Issue Date: May 31, 1996
IRE is mounting globally against a technology that has existed for more than a
100 years now. Although it is not in
good taste to get up one fine morning
and start protesting about what has
been going on for ages, it is certainly
rational if done to ensure good health
and better environment. Incineration is
an industrial combustion process
designed to reduce unwanted materials
Still in the Woods
Issue Date: May 31, 1996
THE second session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF)
was held from March 11-22 in
Geneva. Delegates conducted their first
substantive discussions of six programme elements: underlying causes of
deforestation and forest degradation;
fragile ecosystems affected by desertification and the impact of air pollution
on forests; needs and requirements of
Chernobyl impasse solved
Issue Date: Apr 30, 1996
AFTER seven years of protracted negotiations Ukraine has signed an agreement in Ottawa with the G-7 countries (Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and Canada) and the European Commission on the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power station.
For a terra firma
Issue Date: Apr 30, 1996
THE various life-support systems and the socioeconomic development of a country depend majorly on the proper use of soil resources. Maintaining the quality of this resource base is therefore a key issue in ensuring sustainability in agriculture and food and nutritional security for the people of the country.
Exploring Japan ecologically
Issue Date: Apr 15, 1996
THE Centre for Ecological Research
(CER) was set up at Kyoto University in
April, 1991, to "promote fundamental
research in various ecological topics,
and provide facilities for the collaborative utilisation by ecologists throughout Japan and the rest of the world."
In December 1991, the Indian Academy of
Sciences -brought out a special issue of
By book or by crook..
Issue Date: Apr 15, 1996
IN THE early hours of December 21,
1995, a group of fisherfolk assembled in
thousands and staged a rasta roko (road
block) on the National Highway No 17
at Byukampadi and Kulai, about eight
km from Mangalore. They were protesting against the laying of a pipeline by the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals
Limited (MRPL), and accused the
company of discharging harmful
effluents into the sea.
The Hindustan Petroleum Limited,
