Out of muddy waters
Doori is a tiny village in Dharwad taluk in Karnataka with about 300 families. Agriculture is the main occupation in this village situated a few kilometres from the Goa road. Doori has a pond named
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Nal, Little Rann to enter world list
Two of the Gujarat's almost important wetland sanctuaries Nal Sarovar Birds' Sanctuary and the Wild Ass Sanctuary in the Little Rann of Kutch will soon enter the list of world's most important
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Road safety clubs for schools, new CNG ground rules
In a move to make the roads in the Capital safe, the Delhi Government has adopted new safety standards for the CNG buses and mooted the idea of road safety clubs to ensure safety of school buses in
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Infinity is Universe's fate, NASA study says
NASA, the American space agency, is expected to announce this week that it has proved the existence of "dark energy", a cosmic force that counteracts gravity and will keep the Universe expanding
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Impregilo wins Iceland dam construction deal
Icelandic power producer Landsvirkjun said last week it chose Italian construction group Impregilo SpA (IPGI.MI) to build a giant dam in a project worth 47 million Icelandic crowns. Landsvirkjun
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Climate change impact on neotropical social wasps
Establishing a direct link between climate change and fluctuations in animal populations through long-term monitoring is difficult given the paucity of baseline data. We hypothesized that social wasps
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KMSS to resist OIL seismic survey
Voluntary organisation Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Tuesday announced that it would take recourse to the path of agitation to frustrate the seismic survey being conducted by the Oil India Ltd (OIL) on the Brahmaputra, which is proposed to explore oil. The agitation to resist the OIL seismic survey may culminate in self-immolation by the samiti members, warned the voluntary organisation.
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'Kerala committed violations in weir construction'
A high level Central team from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has found that Kerala has committed serious "violations" in the weir construction across the Bhavani near Mukkali. In view
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Collem farmers agitated over govt's move to demolish Dholbag bundh
Faced with the Irrigation Department's decision to disconnect private water pumps and demolish the Dholbag bundh in March, agitating farmers from Collem, Goa, have threatened to agitate by staging
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Natarajan in China for climate talks
Environment ministers of the Basic group of countries, including India's Jayanthi Natarajan, began deliberations today to chart out a common approach on key climate issues, including the second commitment
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Planning exceptionalism?: political economy of climate resilient development in Bangladesh
Underpinning the new approach was the recognition that climate change posed a serious threat to Bangladesh's desire to become a middle income country by 2021i. Central to the post 2007 efforts was the
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Second national communication from Bhutan to the UNFCCC
The Second National Communication from Bhutan to the UNFCCC elaborates the actions taken, and needed, to address emissions and adverse impacts of climate change in Bhutan. Greenhouse gas emissions from
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Court-appointed monitoring committees: the case of the Dahanu taluka environment protection authority
The premise of this paper is that, despite the existence of a well-established regulatory framework to enforce environmental laws and policies in each state of India, there has been a variation in the implementation of environmental judgments.
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Conservation to get boost with budget allocation
Olive Ridley protection may finally get a place in the State Budget. The High Power Committee, headed by Chief Secretary Ajit Tripathy, on Saturday decided on creation of a budget head for streamlining conservation. Piecemeal assistance will be a thing of the past.
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Development and climate change: a strategic framework for the World Bank group
This Strategic Framework serves to guide and support the operational response of the World Bank Group (WBG) to new development challenges posed by global climate change. The WBG recognizes the very complex political process toward long-term cooperative action within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Framework will help the WBG maintain the
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Coping with water scarcity: what role for biotechnologies?
This publication brings together the background paper and summary report from a moderated e-mail conference that was organised by FAO as one of its initiatives to mark World Water Day 2007, whose theme was "Coping with water scarcity".
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Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
The following guidelines are offered to help in application of the IUCN protected area management categories, which classify
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Pesticides found in bottled water
A non-government organisation claimed that a random analysis of bottled water of various brands in Delhi and Mumbai were found to be highly contaminated with deadly pesticides posing serious health
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Implementing sustainable bioenergy production: a compilation of tools and approaches
This paper is a compilation of example principles, frameworks and tools already in use in the conservation community which may be applied to bioenergy production to identify and reduce environmental as well as socio-economic risks and promote opportunties.
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Union Ministry of Mines rubbishes Adv. General Kantak's contention on dumps, claims 10.89 million tons moved to China over 4 years
PANJIM: The Union Ministry of Mines has observed that approximately 10.89 million tons of iron ore lying in dumps have been removed and dispatched in last four years with increasing demand for low grade