As millions bathe in the sacred rivers they themselves have polluted during the Kumbh Mela, where does the schism between Hindu notions of nature and actual nature conservation lie?
Another massive hydropower scheme is coining up in the Himalaya, this lime in Himachal Pradesh: the Nathpa Jhakri Power Project.
TOTAL COST: U$1.8 billion
World Bank loan, U.
Following environmental its´ protests, Beijing has postponed till 1997 plans to build a U$10 billion dam at Three Gorges on the Yangtze River. If ever built, the project would
Load shedding was supposed to have ended in Kathmandu with the commissioning in 1982 of the Kulekhani Hydroelectric Project, Nepal´s biggest and costliest power plant. This February, load shedding
PARKS AND WILDLIFE
A Bi-NationalPark For Everest?
For a whiie, it seemed that the plan to expand Sagarmatha National Park and to connect it to an even larger park…
Considering the predicted impacts of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming on Southasia, the region has reasons for concern and immediate action. Yet the science of the current global warming, and
