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 Shifting Ganga creats islands disputed

In the post monsoon months of September and October, the Ganga often rises to flood vast tracts of border land in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. As the flood waters recede, they leave behind new islands, which frequently become a subject of violent dispute.

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29/04/1993
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Ganga, Floods, Conflicts, India, Bihar
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 Atmospheric implications of burning forests

MOTIVATED by the need for a holistic understanding of the impact of human activity on the earth's natural phenomena, scientists in the last decade have been studying the earth as an entire system,

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29/04/1993
Bhanusingha Ghosh
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Forest Fires, Atmosphere, Climate Change, Global Warming, Biosphere Reserves, Global, Climate
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 Industries eye forest land for plantations

Wood-based firms want to convert forest areas to their own use for raw material. In doing so, they ignore the fate of millions of rural poor, who are dependent on forest lands.

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29/04/1993
Anumita Roychowdhury
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Forests, Forest Policy, Rural Habitat, India
India

 Making power needs more energy than it yields

IT TAKES energy to produce energy. But different commercial fuels yield different amounts of energy per unit weight. Scientists at the National Productivity Council carried out an "Embodied Energy

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Thursday, April 29, 1993
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Diesel, Coal, Energy, Scientists, India, Statistics
India

 Landmarks on the Chipko trail

1973 • Chipko is born when villagers of Mandal, near Gopeshwar, led by Chandi Prasad Bhatt and the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal, stop contractors of an Allahabad-based sports goods company,

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29/04/1993
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Environment, Deforestation, Chipko Movement, Women, Ecology, Uttar Pradesh, India
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 Chipko: an unfinished mission

In 20 years, Chipko has acquired many facets, primarily as a conservation endeavour by the poor, a struggle for local control of natural resources and an effort by women to protect their environment. Chipko influenced the world, but have its local object

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29/04/1993
Amit Mitra
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Environment, Deforestation, Chipko Movement, Women, Ecology, Uttar Pradesh, India
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 Chipko's triumphs extend beyond the forest

A look at the achievements and failures of a movement that began spontaneously in the Garhwal region two decades ago to protect trees from human rapacity.

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29/04/1993
Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
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Dams, Forest Management, Deforestation, Chipko Movement, Biomass, India
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 Rajstan tribals return to herbal healing

Jagaran, a voluntary body is seeking to re establish traditional herbal medicines in an impoverished tribal area in Udayapur district.

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29/04/1993
Shailendra Kumar
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Health, Tribals, NGO, India
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 "There can be no development without women"

REACHING Doongri, a picturesque village perched 1,750 m above sea level in the Pindar valley in Chamoli district, is a daunting task. The nearest bus stand is at Narayan Bagad, 12 km away and at a height of about 1,100 m. From there, a narrow, slippery mo

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29/04/1993
Amit Mitra
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Forests, Fodder, Deforestation, Chipko Movement, Energy, India
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 A pampered paper industry cries wolf

THIS IS the scam of all scams. The fat and pampered paper industry, which has thrived because it gets forest resources at throwaway prices, is crying out hoarsely for yet another subsidy: cheap

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29/04/1993
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