There have been 180 landslides in Sri Lanka since 1945, says the National Building Research Organisation (NABRO), accroding to a Panos report. Indiscriminate tree-felling, poor drainage and

In response to ecologists up in arms against the golf courses mushrooming all over the world, designers are now coming up with eco friendly courses.

Though the world's attention is focussed on the degradation of tropical forests as a major contributor to global warming, the depletion of boreal forests may also be playing a role.

Indiscriminate tree felling, mining and quarrying, and widespread wastage of land resources seem to be increasing the incidence of landslides in the Indian subcontinent

Sandwiched between an encroaching sea and dams that prevent silt from reaching it, the Nile delta seems doomed.