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Letters - October 15, 2012
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2012
Home remedy For waste
Waste management is a problem in all urban centers of the country (‘Stench in my backyard’, September 1-15, 2012). We need to understand that there’s no other way to manage waste except segregating it at the source, that is our homes.
Reservoirs losing capacity
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2012
HEAVY rainfall leading to flash floods in Himalayan rivers in July-end devastated three states—Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. It claimed 34 human lives and damaged property extensively. It also brought into focus the precarious condition of more than a dozen dams in the region.
Drying up of an empire
@ Issue Date: Mar 31, 2012
In 1861, French botanist Henri Mouhat published a travelogue describing his visit to a “lost empire” in Southeast Asia. Hidden in the jungles of what is today Cambodia were temples of breathtaking magnificence. Mouhat announced he had rediscovered a lost empire: Angkor Wat.
Myth of power
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2008
Hydroelectric projects
in Alaknanda and Bhagirathi river basins
Passive neighbour
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2011
India and Bangladesh breathed a sigh of relief last month after China denied it had plans to divert waters of Brahmaputra River to its arid region. At a press conference in Beijing on October 12, the Chinese Vice-Minister of Water Resources Jiao Yong said such a project on Yarlung Zangbo River, as it is known in Tibet where its headwaters is, would affect relations with downstream countries. This statement came with an admission that the project is neither technically feasible nor environmentally sound.
But Beijing has not given up on its plans for the Brahmaputra.
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2011
GEOLOGY
Dripstone’s mountain tale
Why Polavaram is a pointless project
Issue Date: May 15, 2011
400,000 MAY BE DISPLACED
The environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the project says 276 villages will be affected; an estimated 177,275 people live in these villages. The Polavaram Project Environmental Impact Appraisal Report of 1985 expected 150,697 people to be displaced in 226 villages.
Nowhere to nest
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2011
On February 26, as night fell on the tranquil Gahirmatha beach in Odisha, thousands of Olive Ridley turtles crawled in. Using their rear flippers, they dug pits in the soft beach sand and started laying eggs, more than 100 at a time. Then they skilfully covered the nests with sand and zigzagged their way back to the ocean as if to confuse predators about the exact location of the nests.
Wetlands can cope with sea rise
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2011
AMID predictions by climate scientists that half the coastal marshes may not survive rising sea level, comes a glimmer of hope. A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in December says vegetated wetlands with high tidal ranges—remaining flooded for longer periods—and sediment concentration may survive sea level rise.
