The haunting nuclear ghost
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
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Water stress
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
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The price of power
A significant source of urban air pollution is the combustion of fuels by power plants, industrial boilers, residential stoves and vehicles. A World Bank study in 1998 assessed the magnitude of
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Going under
The Earth has warmed by about 0.5
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Breathe metal
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
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AIDS: the web widens
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
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Crowded house
In the beginning of the 20th century, the Earth was home to some 1.6 billion people. Towards the end of the century, more than six billion people crowd our planet. This year, international
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Breathing poison
Environment is degrading rapidly in the third world. Air pollution from industrial activity, vehicular emissions and burning of fossil fuels claims more than 2.7 million lives every year, as it
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Warming the world
This year is the hottest year since temperature records have been kept. Scientists believe that the Earth is getting warmer because of the build-up of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the
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Too much noise
There has been an alarming rise in noise pollution in most Indian cities. This can be attributed to the increase in number of vehicles, urbanisation and industrialisation. The Central Pollution
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A diseased world
Infectious and parasitic diseases such as acute lower respiratory diseases, tuberculosis, diarrhoea, HIV/AIDS and malaria were responsible for at least 75 per cent of the 50 million deaths that
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Keeping watch
Satellites perform a number of roles in modern society. According to the Washington Post , communications in the United States were disrupted when the Galaxy 4 satellite spun out of position
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Climate change
In January 1998, Toronto-based Environics International conducted a special survey focussed on the Third Conference of Parties (COP-3) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Shrinking cover
India lost about 5,550 sq km of forest cover in the last two years. According to the State of Forest Report 1997, brought out by the ministry of environment and forests, forest cover has gone down
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Pregnancy pangs
Nearly 600,000 women die of pregnancy-related complications every year. One woman in 30 who develop chronic, debilitating problems, dies. Each year, nearly 3.4 million infants die in the first days
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Climate: warming up
In 1990, the US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 5.41 tonnes per capita. In 1993, President Clinton said that the US would bring down GHG emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The Climate
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Tigers: dwindling fast
The largest of all cats, tigers, are gradually dying due to a loss of habitat, diminishing stocks of prey and poaching. About 100,000 tigers lived in the Asian wilderness at the beginning of this
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Not any drop to drink
Supply of potable water has been affected by contamination of water sources in most developing countries. Rivers, lakes and groundwater have been polluted by industrial effluents, pesticides and
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Polluting industries
Industrial production has grown in India by more than 50-fold over the past century. The Central Pollution Board (CPCB) has identified 17 categories of most polluting industries which contribute to
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Population bomb
Seventy-four developing countries, where the population of those under 15 years is one-third of the total will double their population within 30 years or less. This is in spite of death rates having