Stories about Environment from April, 2007
Pakistan: Panjpeer Rockies
An Islooite's day out at Metroblogging Islamabad. “I was surprised this Sunday to find one of the best kept secrets of Islooite outback. I have never seen such rock formations and hills made of of huge sandstone boulders stretching for miles. And I named them the “Panjpeer Rockies””
Morocco: Corruption, politics, and the aftermath of a bombing
Corruption encountered while filming Sahara, thoughts on the Casablanca bombings and concerns about the general safety of Morocco as well as the Virginia Tech massacre have been echoing in the Moroccan blogosphere this week.
Aruba, Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago: Happy Earth Day
Arubagirl, Trinidadian blogger Elspeth at Now is Wow and Lynn Sweeting from the Bahamas all recognize Earth Day.
Ukraine: Abandoned Village Near Chernobyl
Michael Forster Rothbart posts photos from an abandoned Ukrainian village near Chernobyl.
Bahrain: Radioactive Material Dump
Bahraini blogger emoodz goes through local newspapers with a fine comb, to come up with this gem. “Why exactly is this treated as a tiny little article on the third page? Why are people still ignorant about the fact that we do have radioactive material right here in Bahrain? and...
China: MeMedia Issue 4: Copyright Kills Creation, Life's Precious, Ching Ming Festival
This week comes the fourth issue from the newly-formed MeMedia roundup of all that's hot around the Chinese blogsphere including the upcoming Taiwan Bloggers BoF, copyright discussion in Hong Kong, kickback cost of medicine in China, in memory of the deads in Ching Ming Festival and much more. [技术和互联网 2007...
Uzbekistan: Cotton Cultivation
Bonnie Boyd compares cotton cultivation practices in Uzbekistan with those in other parts of the world and sees much room for improvement.
Voices from Ghana: The Black Star of Africa Eclipsed by Energy Crisis; Ghana@50, So What?
The pomp and pageantry surrounding the celebrations of Ghana@50 may be over, but the analysis of what it means for Ghana has spawned a number of ruminations for both Ghanaian bloggers and those blogging about Ghana. Let’s start with a particularly interesting post by a Canadian blogger-couple A Canadian Couple...
Congo's Rainforest for Sale
Citing an article in the Guardian, Forum Realiance writes that since 2002, American and European companies have been buying up the rights to the Congo's virgin rainforests (Fr), paying less than US$20 million for an area roughly the size of Great Britain.
Russia: Shell's Sakhalin II “Fiasco”
Robert Amsterdam writes about Shell's Sakhalin II “fiasco” and the maze of the Russian energy investment politics.
Egypt: The Khamseen Attacks
Egypt has been hit by the Khamseen, according to blogger Issander El Amrani. “Today, one of the nastiest Khamseen in years is blowing through Cairo. My balcony is covered in dust, and the old doors and windows of my 1940s apartment are letting the fine red sand carried by the...
Japan and China: Tea
Alexpappas in Japundit blogs a news report about Japanese merchants in taking tea back to China as it is the biggest potential market: Affluent Chinese are paying as much as 6,000-7,000 yen for 100 grams for the finest-grade longjing tea, often bought as gifts…
China: Orchid crime
Zeng-ying blogs about a homocide case in Cheng-du. The murderer has killed 4 people and assaulted 2. Behind this cold blood murder is the Orchid market (zh). The price of some rare orchids has increased 10 of thousand times in the past few years.
Taiwan: Transport what to where?
In the essay on outdoor recreation, ‘Conservation Esthetic,’ Professor Leopold wrote, ‘Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.’ The total area of Taiwan is about 36,000 sq. km, and mountains account for 30% of...
Armenia: Armenians & Trees
Notes from Hareinik says that Armenians must not like trees considering the way they treat them.
Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago: Bombastic?
Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica have been baring their teeth at each other recently over two major issues. The first is that Trinidad Cement Limited acquired a 43.5% stake in Jamaica's Carib Cement, a move that has not sat well with many Jamaicans, especially following last year’s debacle over cement...
Hong Kong: Human and Dog Competing for Space
Plato from inmediahk.net wrote a letter to the Chief Executive office to tell his experience in competing public space with dogs in the King's Park Hill [zh] (he was assaulted by dogs). As a result of the development plan that aims at eradicating “streets” with shopping mall, both grassroots and...
Ukraine: Kyiv Photos
Michael Forster Rothbart photographs one of the Kyiv neighborhoods to which evacuees from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were relocated two decades ago – and gets his camera bag with 41 items in it stolen. (There are many more photos and stories on the blog, including a few from the...
Ukraine: Radiation
MoldovAnn tries to buy a dosimeter in Kyiv: “No wonder the general population long ago stopped actively worrying about radiation in their food – whether it’s there or not, you basically have no way of finding out.”
Uganda: Protest turns into manhunt for Indians, three people killed
Last week, Joshua Goldstein wrote about Ugandan bloggers’ reaction to Ugandan government's decision to give away 7,100 hectares of Mabira Forest to private investor for sugarcane plantation. The decision has been criticized by the Ugandan civil society, whose resistance to the allocation included the use of SMS. Yesterday, Ugandan bloggers...
Central Asia: Hot Air & the Aral
Bonnie Boyd writes that since 1991, there has been more hot air than progress on saving the Aral Sea.
