India

 Faceless Figures

The status of cancer data in India is as scary as the killer itself. The most recent data on cancer by the Indian Council of Medical Research is 13 years old. With little data on hand, battling cancer has become doubly difficult

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
Vibha Varshney
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Environment Politics, Forest Villages, Forest Fires, Deforestation, Timber Smuggling, Forest Movements, Legislation, Governance, Politics, Bangladesh, India, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), West Bengal, Siliguri, Naxalites, Tribals
India

 Classified ?

The data is rudimentary. The analysis is poor. And is kept secret

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
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India

 System error

The death of India s cancer control programme and the rise of cancers

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
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Environment Politics, Forest Villages, Forest Fires, Deforestation, Timber Smuggling, Forest Movements, Legislation, Governance, Politics, Bangladesh, India, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), West Bengal, Siliguri, Naxalites, Tribals
Health

 Taming wild fires

Computer simulations can help prevent devastating wildfires

Publication Date: 
14/10/2001
Down to Earth
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Forest Fires, Environmental Science, Technology, Space Technology, Research, Computers
Air Pollution

 MALAYSIA

Many parts of Malaysia have been engulfed by a thick smog resulting from forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia, where trees are burned to clear land for cultivation. Though the Malaysian government

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
Down to Earth
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Pollution, Air Pollution, Forest Fires, Indonesia, Malaysia
Air Pollution

 Forests under threat

smoggy air damages plants, causes leaf injury, adversely affects plant growth and reduces fruit yield. Air pollutants such as sulphur, fluorides, ozone affect forest ecosystems adversely. This book

Publication Date: 
30/03/2001
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Air Pollution, Forests, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Forest Fires, Ozone Layer, Climate Change, California
Forests

 Roasted and poached

Forest fires are a boon for poachers in Uttaranchal

Publication Date: 
14/03/2001
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Grasslands, Forests, Forest Conservation, Forest Fires, Poaching, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Industry

 RAGING FIRE

A forest fire destroyed 121 hectares of pine forest in Bhutan's Thimphu district. Forest officials say that the fire started in an apple orchard where a 17-year-old schoolboy was burning papers. Due

Publication Date: 
30/01/2001
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Forest Fires, Pine, Bhutan
Agriculture

 INDONESIA

The Indonesian government has announced that it will allow more logging in large parts of the country's rainforest to give a boost to its devastated economy. This decision may prove to be fatal for

Publication Date: 
30/12/2000
Down to Earth
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Tropical Forests, Forest Fires, Deforestation, Economic Development, Indonesia
Biodiversity

 Vanishing green

It is estimated that around 8,000 years ago, more than six billion hectares (around 40 per cent) of the

Publication Date: 
Thursday, December 14, 2000
Down to Earth
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Forest Resources, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Forest Fires, Deforestation, Governance, Global, Extinct Species

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