... Tourism operators in earthquake-hit Nepal say they are seeking guidance from international experts on which areas can be declared safe for trekking and mountaineering. They want to secure an assessment from top geologists because of the increased risks from earthquake-torn mountains. This type of tourism is a major source of income for Nepal. ...
... The Antarctic ozone hole would have been 40% bigger by now if ozone-depleting chemicals had not been banned in the 1980s, according to research. Models also show that at certain times, a large hole would have opened up at the other end of the globe. The Arctic hole would have been large enough to affect... ...
... A woman who had been hanging off the anchor chain of an Arctic oil-drilling support ship since Friday night ended her protest north of Seattle on Monday. The US coast guard said student activist Chiara D’Angelo requested assistance getting down from her perch on the Arctic Challenger in the Bellingham harbour at around 9.30am. Spokeswoman... ...
... We are lurching along the loch when the 25 seagulls hanging above our boat suddenly scatter. “It’s coming,” says David Sexton quietly. A dark shape materialises low over the water, gaining on us fast. With wings like planks and a meat-cleaver for a beak, the white-tailed eagle fixes its eyeballs (twice as large as ours)... ...
... Worried that his eyes and urine were turning a deep yellow, Gednezar Dladla made his way to a local clinic and was referred to a district hospital, where he was x-rayed, diagnosed with gallstones, and admitted for the night. Both institutions receive funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A... ...
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... The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe./ Edited by Stephen Stec.Szentendre, Hungary. 2003, in English. Handbook on Access to Justice under the Aarhus Convention consists of two part – analytic and cases. The Handbook includes cases on the access to justice issues from different countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central... ...
... Bonine J. Manual / general edition by professor Kravchenko S.Lviv: the Lviv National University press, 2002. – 336 p. The manual covers current issues of the contemporary international environmental law. The manual consists of two parts: general and selected topics. The general part includes scope of international environmental law, its objects, principles, sources and other... ...
... by Svitlana Kravchenko.Belgium: PLAN 2000 INC. – EEB. – 10 p., in English. The leaflet was prepared for the Second Meeting of Signatories in Dubrovnik (Croatia), July 3-5, 2000, and was aimed to explain how to use the Aarhus Convention to protect citizens’ environmental rights and help to build democracy. It is aimed to encourage... ...
... in English. The leaflet on SEA, prepared by John Bonine (Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide) and Svitlana Kravchenko (President of Charitable Foundation “EPL”, Project Manager for Public Participation, European ECO Forum). ...