Women spend much more time working than men in virtually every society for which time use studies are

The industrialised countries are producing an enormous amount of garbage. Western Europe

The remains of the once powerful Soviet nuclear submarine fleet are lying in crumbling shipyards. Many of these are in the northern Kola Peninsula. With Russia lacking the money to dispose of the

If a country is using 20-40 per cent of available freshwater, it is said to be suffering from 'water stress" according to the estimates of the United Nations Environment Programme. About

A significant source of urban air pollution is the combustion of fuels by power plants, industrial boilers,

The Earth has warmed by about 0.5

The US Senate has refused to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, possibly under the influence of the od-automobile industry. But a majority of US citizens favour

Near each coal mining area in India is a residential block for employees. A study conducted on air quality around the Singarani coal field in Andhra Pradesh reveals unacceptably high levels of heavy

Current economic growth patterns: the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Take a look at the patterns of consumption between 1975 and 1995. The world's richest people - only 20 per cent of

According to the World Health Organisation, about 31 million people in the world are living with 11IV or AIDS. Significantly, this includes-about one million children. In 1997, around 2.3 million