Full Coverage: Environment

31.08.2006 The Naturschutzbund (leading Austrian conservation NGO) delegation has visited recently the upper basin of Neretva River, to get better insight in the existing environmental problems, i.e. plans for construction of high dams on the river.

31.08.2006 Recycling paper is one of the many steps towards forest conservation and environmental degradation – we all talk about it, but how many of us really get down to doing anything about it? School students in Indian capital New Delhi, with help from an NGO, show the way.

29.08.2006 Children from nearly 70 countries are meeting in Malaysia this week to discuss ways to protect the world's forests, as part of a conference sponsored by the United Nations Environmental Programme.

25.08.2006 Professor Asit K. Biswas, a tireless water proponent who constantly challenges the "status quo", received the 2006 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate from Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. Professor Biswas is an Indian-born Canadian citizen and president of the Mexico City-based Third World Centre for Water Management.

24.08.2006 Representatives of five environmentalist organizations, “Krste Jon", „Areal", „Enhalon" and „Green Centre" from Struga, together with the Macedonian Green Centre from Skopje, addressed the President, Government and the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia in an open letter, to express their concern over the activities that the local authorities in the city of Struga have undertaken along the coastline of the Ohrid Lake, directly endangering the coastal zone.

24.08.2006 Environmental Equity and Justice Partnership (EEJP) is now inviting applications from eligible grassroots organizations and individuals working in India to apply for its Environmental Small Grants (ESG) and Environmental Fellowships (EF) program. The last date for submitting applications is 15 October 2006.

22.08.2006 The year 2006 has been declared as the International Year for Deserts and Desertification. As awareness about this environmental hazard spreads, the desertification process itself has gathered dangerous momentum. In a report by Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, countries all over the world are rapidly losing the battle against desertification.

11.08.2006 Some 17,000 environmentally minded folk were on hand--and some great green technologies were on display--at this year's Big Green Gathering. Gabrielle Hamm was among them.

11.08.2006 from Worldchanging:
Sustainability should be the national security priority. Terrorism is really a sideshow.

07.08.2006 A Associação de Líderes de Aldeas Indígenas de Suriname, Stichting Sanomara Esa, a Associação de Autoridades dos Saramaka e o Programa Forest Peoples apresentaram quatro relatórios conjuntos para o Comitê de Eliminação da Discriminação Racial nas Nações Unidas (Comitê CERD).

03.08.2006 OneWorld South Asia will lead the the first project launched under the Commonwealth Connects programme -- 'Rebuilding After the Tsunami: Using ICTs for Change'. A new Commonwealth initiative to bridge the deepening digital divide across its member countries was unveiled by Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, UK, on 3 August 2006.

03.08.2006 Delhi is fast emerging as a dump yard for e-wastes from around the world. Says Ravi Agarwal of NGO Toxics Link: "Delhi and surrounding areas have a big market for recycled e-waste. Be it burning of PVC coated copper wires, gold extraction from computer chips, reuse of glass, plastic or taking out lead from picture tubes; there is a ready market in north India. Each picture tube of a dismantled PC yields four to 5 kg of lead," Agarwal said.