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UN environment report states that Ganga would disappear by
2030.There would be no need to train engineers or even Ganga...
A report published in the Journal of the Federation of American
Societies for Experimental Biology suggests that babies of...
THERE is no environmental problem in the world that affects poor
people as extensively or viciously as land degradation or
desertification. According to the UN Environment Programme
(UNEP), about 900 million people are threatened by
desertification, which affects more than 6.1 billion ha -- about
35 per cent of the earth's land area. Each of the 16 years that
have passed since the UN Conference on Desertification (UNCOD)
1977 has seen approximately 6 million ha of previously
productive land rendered infertile. In terms of income lost, at
1990 prices, this means an annual loss of about $42.3 billion. A
very large proportion of the world's rur