Hope flickers
Solar electricity lights the maximum number of villages in Chhattisgarh—but barely so. Tucked away in the Barnawapara wildlife sanctuary of Chhattisgarh is a small village, Deba. The national power grid
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Renuka watland: A newfound abode for migratory birds in Himachal Pradesh
Renuka lake, named after the Goddess Renuka ji, the mother of Lord Parashuram, is situated near Dadahu in Sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh. Since years, it has been receiving silt and debris from 22 nallas, which are all around the catchment of the lake, which is causing ecological deterioration, habitat degradation and eutrification, etc.
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17 tigresses, 34 cubs in Corbett
A70-member team of Uttarakhand forest guards has counted as many as 34 tiger cubs along with 17 to 18 tigresses in the Corbett Tiger Reserve during four days of monitoring carried out a couple of days ago. Senior members of the team said the numbers indicated possibility of a rise in tiger population in Corbett in years to come, provided all the cubs survive.
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Gutkha in plastic bags despite ban
New Delhi:There has been no let-up in the sales of gutkha and pan masala in plastic sachets despite a Supreme Court order banning non-biodegradable sachets from March 1. Strings of pan masala and gutkha sachets of numerous brands continue to hang in shops across the capital.
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RIL to set up centre for marine biodiversity at Jamnagar
Jamnagar: Reliance Industries will set up a national centre for marine biodiversity at Jamnagar in partnership with the government, Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced on Wednesday. Ramesh was at the Marine National Park at Jamnagar to unveil plans for the centre, which he said would be a public-private partnership project of international standards.
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In 2000 2001
• In 2000-2001, the tobacco sector generated a revenue of Rs 8,200 crore as taxes. Foreign exchange earning by the sector during the period was Rs 900 crore (or four per cent of India's total
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Fortifying ecofront
Can existing constitutional safeguards adequately address the environmental concerns?
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National implementation plan (NIP) of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) - Draft
<p>The objective of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (SC) is to protect human health and the environment from POPs. Article 7 of the SC calls for the development of the National Implementation Plan (NIP) that discusses how Parties aim to meet their obligations under the SC. This document has been developed by MoEF to provide an understanding of what measures India aims to undertake in this regard.</p>
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Environment Ministry Stops Work at Srikakulam Power Plant
The Environment Ministry has asked East Coast Energy, promoters of the Bhavanapadu power plant, to immediately suspend work at the project site in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. The order issued on Tuesday evening comes in the wake of police firing near the project site in Kakrapalli village on Monday resulting in the death of two persons and injuries to 50.
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Compendium of environment statistics India 2010
<p>The Compendium of Environment Statistics 2010 prepared under the broad Framework for Development of Environment Statistics provided by the United Nations Statistics Division and adopted by the Steering Committee on Environment Statistics set up by CSO during 1996. The five parameters of the framework, namely, biodiversity, atmosphere, land/soil, water, and human settlements have been used in this compendium. </p>
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Save the tiger by export to better custody
The tiger, living fire of the Indian forest, might soon be snuffed out forever. According to the latest National Tiger Conservation Authority's report there are only 1,411 tigers in the wild in the country. Indeed, the NTCA has added that its study has an error margin, which could bring the estimated tiger population down to less than 1,200. With human encroachments and poaching on the rise, the magnificent lord of the wilderness, rippling like liquid flame through the jungle, could face extinction unless drastic steps are taken.
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Drive to wean schoolkids away from tobacco
KOLKATA, Feb. 13: School-going children in West Bengal are more prone to get addicted to tobacco products. Thanks to the lack of awareness among people in these parts about the dangers of tobacco use. This was revealed by a voluntary organisation, West Bengal Voluntary Health Association (WBVHA) this afternoon who have been engaged by the Union health ministry to spread awareness about the ill-effects of tobacco.
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Beyond Rio+20: governance for a green economy
<p>As an intellectual contribution to the preparations for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, a.k.a. Rio +20), Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future convened a task force of experts to discuss the role of institutions in the actualization of a green economy in the context of sustainable development.
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Orissa village pays for dreaming development
The burden of development has been too heavy for the villagers of Goudpali in Orissa's Sambalpur district. Twelve of them have been dragged to court by the Forest department. Their fault: Daring to
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A state of play assessment of land use in the international policy response to climate change
<p>As this assessment will show, an extraordinary amount of time, effort and resources have been dedicated to pursuing land based solutions to climate change by both developing and developed countries across the globe. Progress has been made in building capacity and readiness, tools and techniques and principles and partnerships.
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Integrated pollution prevention and control: India and the EU appraise policy and instruments
<p>This report focuses on the policy guidelines for management of pollution control, specifically for air quality – one of the priorities identified by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of the Government of India (GoI).
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Plan to ban 2-stroke vehicles in district towns, cities
The caretaker government plans to ban two-stroke vehicles in all the district headquarters and metropolitan cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to hazardous global warming. "Government is thinking about making cities and district towns clean by getting rid of two-stroke engine as it causes massive air pollution,' Raja Devasish Roy, special assistant to chief adviser on Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and Forest Affairs, told UNB. He said the government will take steps to create awareness among the people against the use of two-stroke engines.
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Indian Institute of Forest Management
The Indian Institute of Forest Management is a sectoral management institute, which constantly endeavors to evolve knowledge useful for the managers in the area of Forest, Environment and Natural Resources Management and allied sectors. It disseminates such knowledge in ways that promote its application by individuals and organizations.
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Jumbos kill one near Dergaon; leopard killed in Teok
Three wild elephants, which were tailing a herd towards Kaziranga National Park, trampled to death one Baap Hazarika (70) and injured two others at Sial Chapori near Dergaon last night. The body of the deceased man was recovered this morning. Hazarika is the fifth victim in jumbo attacks which took place in the riverine areas along the Brahmaputra river this year. Meanwhile, the marauding jumbo herd, which had been driven away towards the national park, destroyed the Mohpora forest camp under Agaratoli range of KNP. There are no reports of any casualty.
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Staples Cuts Asia Pulp Ties Over Environment
- Office supplies retailer Staples has cut off business with Indonesia's Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the world's biggest paper companies, due to concerns over environmental issues, The Wall Street Journal said on Friday. The report quoted a Staples executive as saying Staples had severed ties with APP late last month because there was no indication that it was making strides to protect the environment. Environmental groups have said forest-clearing by the APP group is endangering tigers, elephants and orangutan as well as destroying preciously diverse flora.