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Environment News:
Reduce, reuse & recycle
By Madhu Arora
Environmental activism is on the rise in schools all over the country, with both students
and authorities taking a keen interest. Over this weekend, the first national conference
on environment for school students, Paryavaran, was held at India International Centre.
The main objective of the conference was to provide a common platform to students who have
been ecologically active in their own institions. Apart from that, a number of NGOs like
Development Alternatives and Centre for Science and Environment were invited to impart
vital eco-information. |
| The
Pioneer, New Delhi, April 23, 2003 |
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Strings attached:
The country is on the verge of the most widespread drought in 12 years with monsoons
delayed and the land parched. Add to that the indiscriminate digging and deepening of tube
wells and the groundwater level is down.Why is there a delay of monsoons? Why the climate
change? While studies have shown that 85 percent of glaciers are losing their mass at 1.8
metres a year, adding 96 cubic km of water to oceans, much of which is blamed on global
warming from greenhouse gas emissions, a clear picture still eludes.In this scenario,
discovery of a thick haze roughly seven times the size of India over the northern Indian
Ocean has thrown up fresh concerns. The study reported in Down to Earth looks into the
possible effect of aerosols, constituting the haze, in affecting rainfall. |
| Deccan
Herald, Bangalore, August 13, 2002 |
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Ten years of Down to Earth :
It was almost christened Gobar - a word that captured the essence of the famous green
slogan 'Act Local, Think Global'. Launched at a time when niche magazines were falling by
the wayside and environment was still on the editorial fringe, Down to Earth celebrates a
well-deserved 10th anniversary this month. The brainchild of Anil Agarwal - the bright and
indefatigable founder of the Centre for Science and Environment who recently succumbed to
cancer -began as a refreshingly quixotic attempt to chronicle with spunk and rigour the
ecological changes wrought by modernity. |
| The Week,
Kochi, 26th May, 2002 |
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