Environment
Unemployed to Sterilize Hanuman Monkeys in India
By GAVIN RABINOWITZ –
NEW DELHI (AP) — A northern Indian state said Thursday it planned to use unemployed youths to sterilize monkeys to try to combat aggressive primates who have been raiding farms. The idea drew immediate condemnation from conservationists, who said the plan was unscientific and would likely worsen the problem.
Indian authorities have struggled [...]
150 million rich produced 4.5 times more carbon emissions than the 800 million poor Indians
Greenpeace calls for pollution tax on India’s 150 million rich
France24.com, 13 Nov 2007
India’s wealthy consumers, who make up a fraction of its 1.1 billion population, are fuelling the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and should be required to pay extra tax, an environmental watchdog said on Tuesday.
Some 150 million Indians, splurging on luxury goods and air [...]
Access to Water– A Dream?: Girish Mishra
November 2006
It was not long ago that Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate, José Saramago questioned the rationale of spending millions of dollars on missions to find out whether there was water on the moon when billions of people on the earth had no access to water for drinking, sanitation and irrigation. His stand is fully [...]
Millions breathe cancer-causing air in India: report
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Millions in India breathe air loaded with cancer-causing chemicals and toxic gases present at levels that are thousands of times higher than permissible limits, an independent report said on Saturday.
India, one of the most polluted countries in the world, does not even have a standard for many harmful chemicals and gases, and [...]
