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ENVIRONMENT

 

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1. Current Matters

 

2. General Assessment
3. Critical Issues
4. Strategy & Policy
5. Country Profiles
6. Regional Non Governmental Organisations
7. Regional Institutes & Ministries
8. News & Research Resources

 

1. Current Matters

Web links to articles on South Asian environmental topics recently in the news.

● Afghanistan's Environment Ravaged by War, ENS, February 2003

● Afghanistan: New Agricultural Early Warning System

● Sound Pollution Threatens Public Health in Ranpur, The Independent, February 2003

● Mobile Lab to Help Industries Comply with Environmental Norms, Kuensel, February 2003

● Emissions Test Mandatory from February, Kuensel, January 2003

● Asia's Arsenic Crisis Deepens, Nature, February 2003

● Gasohol Launched, The Hindu, January 2003

● People Say NO to Interlinking Rivers in India, Sanctuary, February 2003

● Devastated Nepal Cuts Funds for Environment, ENS, February 2003

● Seminar on Leasehold Forestry Development Programme, The Kathmandu Post, February 2003

● Pakistan: Destructive weather continues, IRIN News, February 2003

● Sinharaja Forest Borders to be Revested in Ministry, Daily News, February 2003

● Mineral Exploitation Runs into First Road Block, Sunday Observer, February 2003

● Much Ado About Trees, The Island, February 2003