The Daily Star: Internet Edition Fri. July 27, 2007

Vol. 5 Num 1122

Fri. July 27, 2007


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Environment

Forest crisis and the exclusion of the poor
On the 1.53m hectares of land under statutory authority of the Forest Department, current government policy restricts the role of the rural poor both in improving forests and in benefiting from them.

Low flow in the Ganges, its adverse impacts and the proposed barrage
The writer read in The Daily Star dated 24th June, 2007 about the Kushtia Dialogue on the problems faced in the southwestern region of the country as a result of low flow in the Ganges and its distributaries

Coal: Facts and findings
How about liquid fuel from coal?
Coal is a combustible, sedimentary, organic rock formed from ancient vegetation, transformed by the combined effects of temperature, pressure and microbial action over a considerable time period.