Agriculture

 Old as the hills

Shifting agriculture on the hillsides has been going on for centuries. In recent times, it has been blamed for degrading the ecology. Agriculture is a sound ecological management strategy, provided it is sustainable

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
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Environment, Land Degradation, Soil Erosion, North East, Agriculture, Shifting Cultivation, Forest Resources, Tropical Forests, Trees, Asia, Honduras, India, Nagaland, Developing Countries, Forests
Air Pollution

 ECO COSTS

Pakistan is incurring an annual economic loss of US $1.8 billion because of mismanagement in six key environmental areas, according to Omar Asghar, the country's federal minister for environment,

Publication Date: 
14/03/2001
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Environment Economics, Air Pollution, Land Degradation, Deforestation, Waste Disposal, Pakistan, Environment Management
Water Resources

 UNITED NATIONS

A total of 2.4 billion people across the world do not have any access

Publication Date: 
30/12/2000
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Pollution Control, Water Pollution, Land Degradation, Water Resources, UN, Ghana
India

 Grazing concerns

Over grazing is leading to the degradation of pasture lands

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
C R Hazra, Dipankar Saha
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Grazing Lands, Land Degradation, Livestock, Carrying Capacity, Environmental Science, India
Industry

 Making hell holes

What slaughter mining and power plants have done to the people and the environment

Publication Date: 
14/07/2000
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Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Degradation, Mining, Health Effects, Deforestation, Coal, Occupational Health, Industry, Public Sector, Technology, Governance, Bihar, Corruption
Industry

 The failure

Nationalisation of coalmines has failed badly

Publication Date: 
14/07/2000
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Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Degradation, Mining, Health Effects, Deforestation, Coal, Occupational Health, Industry, Public Sector, Technology, Governance, Bihar, Corruption
Industry

 What now ?

Desperate measures are the call of the day. Common people need to have a greater say

Publication Date: 
14/07/2000
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Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Degradation, Mining, Health Effects, Deforestation, Coal, Occupational Health, Industry, Public Sector, Technology, Governance, Bihar, Corruption
Industry

 A Nationalised Nightmare

One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large scale destruction of the environment. Now, the danger is not just from accidents that kill. For the residents of coal tow

Publication Date: 
14/07/2000
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Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Degradation, Mining, Health Effects, Deforestation, Coal, Occupational Health, Industry, Public Sector, Technology, Governance, Bihar, Corruption
Wildlife

 Groundwater sullied

almost four million litres of used engine oil seeped into the soil and conta

Publication Date: 
30/05/2000
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Groundwater Pollution, Land Degradation, Petrochemical Industry, Africa
Forests

 Food for thought

The human population in the world has crossed the six billion mark. With this the environmental cost of

Publication Date: 
Tuesday, December 14, 1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Degradation, Desert Spread, Food Crops, Groundwater, Irrigation, Population, Statistics

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