Wildlife officials to kill 4,000 cormorants
Chris Anderson is only half-joking when he offers a solution for the hungry cormorants that are eating the fish in Leech Lake -- and taking money out of his pocket. Word has spread that walleye
Chris Anderson is only half-joking when he offers a solution for the hungry cormorants that are eating the fish in Leech Lake -- and taking money out of his pocket. Word has spread that walleye
PC assures over Rs 500 cr under CSS State to get development monitored through NABCONS JAMMU: In a significant achievement for Chief Minister Omar Abdullah headed Government, the Planning Commission (PC) today approved the State
Chief Executive Officer of Karnataka State Lake Development Authority B K Singh has said that the authority was considering sending a proposal of Rs 10 crore project for Heggeri Tank, Haveri, to the
With an expected 2°C rise in the world’s average temperature in the next few decades, Nepal will face a host of challenges, including glacial lake outbursts, erratic monsoon, flooding and water insecurity,
The quality of water in Europe's rivers and lakes used for swimming and water sports has worsened over the past year, with one in 10 not up to standards, the European Union head office said. Coastal
For the past four years, the Bidhannagar Municipality has been dumping waste in Mollar Bheri that falls within the boundary of the East Kolkata Wetland without permission from the East Kolkata Wetland Management Authority (EKWMA). Salt Lake's waste was being dumped in Mollar bheri since the 1960s.
One of the case studies of this year's Stockholm Water Symposium is Lake Victoria, an important natural resource in east Africa, which is under stress. The rapidly growing populations in the
The chief engineer (Irrigation) of the Kotri Barrage, (Pakistan) Mr Manzoor Sheikh, has said the irrigation department is preparing a plan for rehabilitation of the Manchhar Lake on the directives of
Cries to protect river Sal from decay reverberated on the banks of the river at Khareband on World Environment Day as concerned activists and residents teamed up to save the once lifeline of Salcete.
JAMNAGAR is one of three cities in Gujarat which boasts of a large lake: the Ranmal lake. Once the pride of the residents of this historic city, also known as the Paris of Saurashtra, the lake has
Already said to be a victim of the myopic vision of administration the Naokuchla lake-situated 24km to the east of Nainital, the most polluted alke of the region has become second in the list.
A large number of fresh water prawns were found dead in the Kovil Pathagai lake in Avadi. Poisoning is suspected to be the reason behind the
India is racing to set up two monitoring stations on the Pareechu river to give itself elbow room if an artificially created lake in Tibet splits wide open to send mountains of water to Himachal.
Traces of the antidepressant fluoxetine, better known by its original brand name Prozac, could have reached Britain's lakes and rivers and be affecting aquatic wildlife according to the Environment
Their intervention is timely. Powerful commercial interests, including developers and big farming groups, have been pressuring Congress to keep things the way they are.
Nearly a week after the mass death of fishes at Vengaiana Kere (lake) in K R Puram, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has installed Floating Surface Aerators to increase oxygen level in
Mumbaikars can smile now. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally assured them that there will be no water cuts before the monsoon gets into its full flow. The civic officials said that till now there is water storage of 54,990 million litre per day (MLD) in the lakes which is sufficient to last for another 15 to 20 days. Hoping that monsoon arrives in the city by that time the city will face no water cuts. According to BMC figures the water levels in the civic lakes have gone down as compared to last year and fears of likely water cuts was being expressed.
Hajong lake a unique tortoise habitat situated 80 kilometres north of Haflong in the remote Langting-Mupa reserve forest in North Cachar Hills district is the only natural tortoise habitat in Assam
The executive engineer of the Dadu southern irrigation division (Pakistan) has said 890 cusecs of polluted water was released from the Manchhar Lake into the River Indus on Saturday. The official,
An elephant and her one-year-old calf were electrocuted near Dimna lake near here on Monday. The incident occurred when the calf, which was walking ahead of its mother, came in contact with a hanging live wire near the lake. The mother elephant rushed to rescue her child and too came in contact with the wire, divisional forest officer (Dalma wildlife sanctuary), Sidharth Tripathy said, adding both elephants were killed on the spot.