Tam Dao National Park (TDNP) is a remaining primary forest that supports some of the highest levels of biodiversity in Vietnam. Forest conversion due to illegal logging and agricultural expansion is a major problem that is hampering biodiversity conservation efforts in the TDNP region. Yet, areas vulnerable to forest conversion are unknown.
There are clear signs that China feels challenged to take a quantitative emission cap in a post-Kyoto world and expects developed nations to lead on emission reduction, a view that was clearly expressed by Chinese authorities in Copenhagen. However, we think China carries part of the responsibility of global climate change and is capable to offer more.
Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman believed that creative pursuit in science requires irreverence. Sadly, this spirit is missing from Indian science today. As other nations pursue more innovative approaches to solving problems, India must free itself from a traditional attitude that condemns irreverence, so that it too can address local and global challenges and nurture future leaders in science.
What is the shape our climate-challenged world is in? Rich developed countries have made it clear they are not interested in any talk about their past emissions.
GREEN lingo has by now infiltrated In dia’s economic policy circles. In his pre-budget speech, Prime Minister Manmo han Singh hinted it was time India’s industrialization took the low-carbon path.
An auctioneer in England has been fined £1,000 (US $1,520) for trying to sell an Edwardian chest of drawers containing 100-year-old bird eggs. Jim Railton, the auctioneer, said he had no idea he was breaking the law and claimed he would have made a profit of only £15.
The favelas, or shanty to - wns of Brazil, are a uniform red ochre of unplaster - ed brick walls. But two artists from the Netherlands want to paint them every colour under the sun to showcase their colourful soul.
Four years ago, former US vice-president Al Gore raised some alarming questions about climate change in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth. A German filmmaker has now tried to provide some answers in a documentary.
