Grist | Topics | 11 Results

RESULTS		Results 1 – 11 of 11
Headline	Author	Published	Section
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Poison Spray Afghan poppy fields mysteriously sprayed with chemicals		06 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Poison Spray Afghan poppy fields mysteriously sprayed with chemicals Recently, planes have been flying over the poppy fields of Afghan farmers, spraying them -- along with houses, orchards, and perhaps even families -- with toxic chemicals apparently intended to kill poppy crops and keep them from being converted to heroin. Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed shock at th ...
Topics: Afghanistan, food and agriculture, toxics (all these topics)

Hit Below the Pelt Snow Leopards Threatened by Increased Hunting in Afghanistan		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Hit Below the Pelt Snow Leopards Threatened by Increased Hunting in Afghanistan The ouster of the Taliban from Afghanistan undoubtedly had many salutary side effects -- but not for the region's snow leopards, according to a new report by three conservation organizations. One of the most endangered big cat species in the world, the snow leopard dwells in the mountains of central and southern Asia, an inhospitable region with few natura ...
Topics: Afghanistan, wildlife (all these topics)

Af-gone		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Af-gone Afghanistan's most significant wetland area is now almost as dry as a bone, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Satellite imagery shows that 99 percent of the Sistan wetlands, which stretch into Iran, have dried out since 1998. The main source of water to the wetlands, the Helmand River, has been flowing at far below normal levels. Ahmad Yusuf ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Iran, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Raging Kabul		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Raging Kabul Twenty years of war in Afghanistan have not only taken an appalling human toll; they've laid waste to the nation's environment, according to a survey just completed by the United Nations Environment Programme. The survey found that more than 50 percent of the forests in three Afghan provinces have been destroyed in the last quarter-century, and w ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, land degradation, renewable energy, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

War Crimes		13 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: Afghanistan War Crimes War can be hell on the environment, but in the case of Afghanistan, no one knows just how hellish. Under the auspices of the United Nations, five teams of foreign and local scientists are examining the impact of almost 30 years of fighting on the country's natural resources. By December, the teams hope to identify urban pollution hotspots and immediate and long-term threats to vulnerable areas. They also hope to generate ideas for restoring sites where dam ...
Topics: Afghanistan (all these topics)

How Now, Brown Cloud		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
How Now, Brown Cloud A dense blanket of pollution that is hovering over South Asia could cause millions of deaths in the region and pose a threat to the world at large, a group of 200 scientists announced today. Known as the "Asian Brown Cloud," the smog is an estimated two miles thick and covers the entire Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka to Afghanistan. The ...
Topics: Afghanistan, air pollution, Asia, energy, health, India, Sri Lanka, wilderness (all these topics)

Problems Swept Under the Afghan		25 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Problems Swept Under the Afghan Soviet-era chemical agents; a pond full of sewage that children use as a play area; highly radioactive material -- these are just a few of the environmental and health hazards found so far in Kabul, Afghanistan, by U.N. peacekeepers and a team of U.N. scientists that began an environmental assessment of the country last week. The situation outside of the capital city is no better. Ab ...
Topics: Afghanistan, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Silicon Death Valley		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Silicon Death Valley Nineteenth century labor conditions and 21st century technology are clashing in impoverished areas of Asia, where millions of tons of obsolete high-tech gear are shipped from the U.S. to be stripped of valuable parts. The practice, which is highly dangerous for both workers and the environment, is documented in a ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Asia, energy, globalization, Haiti, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

We've Got Mail!		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Afghanistan, land degradation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Worse for the Tern		20 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Worse for the Tern Here's another possible casualty of the war on terrorism: migrating birds. An Indian ornithologist announced today that more than 200 species of birds that migrate from central Asia to India every year could be adversely affected by chemicals in the bombs exploding in Afghanistan. Such birds, including the Siberian crane, the shoveller duck, the crested poacher, and the Arctic te ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Asia, India, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Talkin' 'Bout An Evolution The U.S. should take a cue from nature in its fight against terrorism	Seth Zuckerman	11 Oct 2001	Soapbox
Talk about unimaginative. After the radically unconventional attacks on Sept. 11, the United States government strikes back in the most predictable way possible, by bombing Afghanistan from the air. Instead of studying an obsolete military playbook to plan the U.S. response, we might turn to the steady principles of ecology: After all, organisms have been living with eac ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, food and agriculture, toxics, United States, US Military, wildlife (all these topics)

Stories About: Afghanistan