Asia

Cities are known to generate a lot of waste and contribute in a major way to water and air pollution. They have become a major source of concern in the 20th century. City authorities will have to be

Publication Date:

Thursday, April 29, 1999

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

Issue:

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Tags:

Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Urban Habitat, Population Trends, Asia

India

Himalayan glaciers, source of water for the innumerable rivers that flow across the Indo-Gangetic plains, are receding. And that too at a phenomenal rate. As they continue to recede, incidents of landslides, changes in river regimes and floods will increa

Publication Date:

29/04/1999

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

7

Issue:

19990430

pp:

0

Tags:

Himalaya, Glaciers, Rivers, Riverine Ecology, Global Warming, Floods, Landslides, Asia, India

Water Resources

Crisis in West Asia

Unless drastic steps are taken, West Asian countries will soon face severe water crisis

Publication Date:

14/04/1999

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Quality, Environmental Science, Asia, Rainfall

Air Pollution

Let off

Tobacco companies get a reprieve in the UK. How will Asia fare?

Publication Date:

30/03/1999

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

21

Issue:

19990331

pp:

0

Tags:

Tobacco, Health Effects, Cancer, Asia, United Kingdom (UK)

Biodiversity

UNITED NATIONS

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has called upon various governments to closely work with the Convention to Combat Desertification, a body fighting for reversal of dryland

Publication Date:

14/01/1999

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Malnutrition, UN, FAO, Asia, South America

Wildlife

Collaborative management of protected areas in the Asian region

This book contains the proceedings of the workshop on collaborative management of protected rreas in the Asian region, held at Royal Chitwan National Park, Sauraha, Nepal, May 25-28, 1998.

Publication Date:

Jan 1999

Author(s): Krishna Prasad Oli

Source: IUCN

Tags:

Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, Biodiversity, Legislation, Asia

Environment

Fuel for warming the globe

A collapse in the price of fossil fuel means bad news for efforts to curb global warming

Publication Date:

30/12/1998

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

7

Issue:

19981231

pp:

0

Tags:

Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Fossil Fuels, Asia

Biodiversity

Who"s the safekeeper?

IT HAS been made patently clear that government designed and implemented conservation projects flounder if local communities are not included in the decisionmaking process. It is the indigenous

Publication Date:

14/12/1998

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

7

Issue:

19981215

pp:

0

Tags:

Forest Conservation, Asia

Water Pollution