Natural Disasters

 PUERTO RICO

A delegation of New Yorkers headed by George Pataki, the city's governor, recently visited the Puerto Rican island of Vieques to witness the harmful effects of the us navy's combat training

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecosystems, Health Care, Puerto Rico, United States Of America (US)
Industry

 BRAZIL

At least 10 people died and a few were seriously injured when the world's largest oilrig (located 130 km off the northeastern coast of Brazil) sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Petrobrasthe

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Oil Pollution, Ecosystems, North Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
Water Pollution

 Tanned Order

Authorities and the leather industry owners in Tamil Nadu dodge court orders, while a few individuals raise voices to save their ecosystems from tannery waste

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Binayak Das
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Ecosystems, Leather Industry, Palar, Health Effects, Farmers, Compensation, Technology, Supreme Court, Tamil Nadu
Water Resources

Mapping, monitoring and conservation of Harike wetland ecosystem, Punjab, India, through remote sensing

The Ramsar Convention of IUCN held in 1971 in Iran raised global

Publication Date: 
01/01/2001
P. K. Sharma, V. K. Verma, R. Chopra
International Journal of Remote Sensing
22
1
89
Tags:
Lake Pollution, Ecosystems, Wetlands, Land Use, Water Resources, Lakes, Harike SA, Water Quality, Sedimentation, Hyacinth, Wetland Conservation, Remote Sensing, India, Punjab
Environment

 UNITED NATIONS

There is a need to evolve a new approach to manage ecosystems in order to

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecosystems, Carrying Capacity, Research, UNDP, UNEP, World Bank, Sustainable Development
Climate Change

 Warm changes

Global warming will affect the vegetation of the Tibetan Plateau

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecosystems, Climate Change, Global Warming, Environmental Science, Research
India

 Nature s wrath

Even flash floods cannot refresh the authorities' understanding of the dynamic and fragile ecosystem of the Himalaya

Publication Date: 
30/08/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecosystems, Himalaya, Shifting Cultivation, Deforestation, Floods, Landslides, Roads, Himachal Pradesh, Sustainable Development
Wildlife

 THREATENED

Ten ecosystems in Pakistan

Publication Date: 
14/03/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecosystems, Population, Governance, Pakistan
Wildlife

Where communities care: community-based wildlife and ecosystem management in South Asia

This report is the outcome of the South Asian Regional Review of Community Involvement in Wildlife Management. This was conducted as part of a global series of regional reviews for the IIED's project "Evaluation Eden: Assessing the Impacts of Community Wildlife Management".

Publication Date: 
Feb 2000
Ashish Kothari, Farhad Vania, Neema Pathak
IIED
Tags:
Ecosystems, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Community Groups, South Asia
Forests

 New research institute

the governor of New York has called for the creation of an institute on the Hudson River to conduct research that would be applicable to rivers and estuaries around the world. Governor George

Publication Date: 
30/01/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Ecosystems, Rivers, Water Quality, Aid, Research, United States Of America (US)

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