· April, 2007

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...

23 April 2007

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...

19 April 2007

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...

19 April 2007

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...

17 April 2007

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...

17 April 2007

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...

17 April 2007

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...

13 April 2007

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...

13 April 2007