Biodiversity

 Will the Aral Sea ever come back?

"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of the world"s fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea, tell a graphic tale of the human toll caused by am of the w

Publication Date: 
14/11/1995
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Ecology, Aral Sea, Water Management, Biodiversity
Natural Disasters

 Green peace in black curls

Traditional tea cultivation in China"s Jinuoshan area, unlike in most other places, ensures ecological balance

Publication Date: 
29/09/1995
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Ecology, Plantation Crops, Tea, China
Environment

 True brews

From the green brew of Wan Tu, tea has found homes everywhere and come in diverse incarnations

Publication Date: 
29/09/1995
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Ecology, Plantation Crops, Tea, China
Agriculture

 Some knowledge is forever

The validity of traditional ecological practices, in terms of sustainability, has to be examined scientifically

Publication Date: 
14/09/1995
R J Ranjit Daniels, Jayshree Vencatesan
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Ecology, Traditional Knowledge, Appropriate Technology
Energy

 "Over 15 per cent of Russia is ecologically unsafe"

Professor Alexei Yablokov is head of the inter departmental commission for ecological security under Russia's National Security Council. He recently resigned as advisor on environmental and health problems to President Boris Yeltsin. Yablokov, 62, has a

Publication Date: 
30/07/1995
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Ecology, Drinking Water, Radiation, Russia, Toxic Wastes
India

 'Development' vultures

"Spring's fragrant gardens wither away where the mediocre rules" Rabindranath Tagore

Publication Date: 
14/07/1995
Pavan K Gupta
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Ecology, Mining, India
Environment

 Matter of principle

ENVIRONMENTAL protection has become the conscience-digging concern of mankind. It is uppermost in the minds of the planners, policy makers and legislators. It has also been the all-important

Publication Date: 
14/05/1995
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Environment, Ecology
Air Pollution

 RED SEA

Peace and economic fortune in West Asia has arrived at a cost too dear to measure in purely financial terms: the environment is drowning under the sheer weight of tourism. The coral reefs of the Red

Publication Date: 
14/04/1995
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Ecology, Red Sea, Corals
Industry

 PAKISTAN

Pakistan's Kalabagh dam project has stirred up a hornet's nest. To counter hostile critics in the North West Frontier Province and Sindh, a new strategy, chalked out on the World Bank's guidelines,

Publication Date: 
14/04/1995
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Ecology, Deforestation, Respiratory Diseases, Pakistan
India

 Elephants pit

Scientist R SUKUMAR of the Centre for Ecological Studies, Bangalore, says that DTE correspondent Anju Sharma was slipshod in her homework on elephants

Publication Date: 
30/03/1995
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Ecology, Elephant, Research, Scientists

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