Wood
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs. In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 3 September 2024 English
Thousands of Sahariya Adivasis who have lived here for centuries and depended on the forest for their livelihoods, are now banned from entering. September 2024 marks two years since the …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2024 English
Biomass burning, used mainly for cooking, is a key contributor to Household Air Pollution (HAP). It poses health risks especially for women and children as they are directly exposed to …
chulhas1 while cooking. When solid fuels such as wood are burned incompletely in inefficient stoves for … made of bricks, mud or stone typically fuelled by wood or coal.ROLE OF VULNERABILITY IN TRANSITION TO CLEAN …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 July 2024 English
This report is written by Suhas Chakma of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP), University of Arizona. Published in July 2024, the report examines the conflict between tiger conservation …
was falsely charged for having two stumps of teak wood in her pile of firewood. Her bail order did not …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …
industrial processes, power generation, coal and wood burning, agricultural activities, and construction … plants, industrial and agricultural activities, wood burning fireplaces, and wind-blown dust. Ground-level … sugarcane production, land speculation, as well as the wood charcoal industry.82,83 Though annual forest clearances … poor air quality include the mining industry and wood burning stoves.93 HIGHLIGHT: CHILE’S MINING INDUSTRY … owners have committed to replacing 70,000 Santiago wood-burning stoves with electric burners.96,97 2022 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 28 February 2024 English
Many of India’s iconic musical instruments are made from the wood of the jackfruit tree, grown across Tamil Nadu. The highly skilled makers in Panruti and Thanjavur coax ragam and rhythm from its timber …
India’s iconic musical instruments are made from the wood of the jackfruit tree, grown across Tamil Nadu. …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 September 2023 English
This report, published by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi, provides an overview of the Indian government’s policies to combat the problem of single-use plastics (SUPs) and …
materials based upon end-use and durability such as wood, paper, wheat, and rice bran, bagasse, plant material …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 September 2023 English
The 2023 edition of the State of Working India report was published by Centre of Sustainable Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, in September 2023. It presents household survey conducted in …
Representation Index Public adminstration, defence etc Wood & wood products Non−metallic mineral Households with …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2023 English
The State of India’s Birds (SoIB) is a periodic, national-level examination of the distribution range and abundance trends of Indian birds that aids in formulating conservation plans. The SoIB last …
RED LIST WLPA SCHEDULE Marbled Duck White-winged Wood Duck Baer's Pochard Blood Pheasant Western Tragopan … Snowy-throated Babbler Bugun Liocichla Assam White-winged Wood Duck Baer’s Pochard Bengal Florican Swamp Grass … Red-headed Vulture Indian Vulture Maharashtra Nilgiri Wood Pigeon Indian Courser Pallid Harrier Forest Owlet … Nuthatch, Large Blue Flycatcher Assam: White-winged Wood Duck, Baer’s Pochard, Swamp Francolin, Bengal Florican … Great White Pelican, Isabelline Shrike Goa: Nilgiri Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Sanderling, Terek …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2023 English
This report was released by Asar Social Impact Advisors, a Karnataka-based research organisation, in August 2023. It was authored by Vidyuth Sreenivasan, Neha Saigal and Saumya Shrivastava at Asar.Household air …
as their primary source for cooking, especially wood and 6 dung cakes. Of these 41% households, around … using LPG; they were using biomass fuels like wood, cow dung, coal, and cloth among others. 2.3.2. … they also stack multiple fuels and use cow dung and wood as secondary fuels. During winters coal is also … cooking and heating needs. These include a mix of wood, cow dung, coal, clothes, and cardboard, among other … who work there, whereas the remaining fuels like wood, leaves, dung, and sugarcane are collected by the …
MNRI: National Museum of Romanian History · 2 June 2023 English
Plachetă din lemn sculptat cu portretul lui Lenin. În partea de jos o dedicație în limba engleză ”To 13 Congress of the C.P.R. (Romania) from Popa (Afganistan)” - ”Celui de-al …
