A village the authorities dare not enter
Vachati village, where the residents openly defy the authorities, has acquired a reputation for collective smuggling.
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Meet on river conservation
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and Jawaharlal Nehru University's School of Environmental Sciences will jointly organise a two-day "National workshop on conservation of rivers and
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Exporting ideology
The Northern park style conservation model has been sidely criticised for being forced down Southern throats
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"The DANGER to FORESTS is not over"
The subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UN FCCC met from June 2 12 1998 in Bonn, Germany. A good part of the deliberations was spent in addressing the issue of land use change and forestry LUCF , and their tre
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Coastal Maha projects halted till June 2011
New Delhi: The Union environment and forests ministry on Monday extended the moratorium on environmental clearances to new projects in the coastal Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra up to June 2011. In mid-August, the ministry had imposed a four-month moratorium on entertaining any new project for mandatory environmental clearance which expired at the end of 2010. The
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Flashpoints
For several years, governments of coastal states have been trying to persuade the Centre to relax the <font class='UCASE'>crz</font> rules. Here is how some major developmental works are set to proceed once that happens
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Forest fire destroys park
the threat from three forest fires that forced evacuation of 4,500 families on the east coast of Spain between Alicante and Valencia is waning, newspaper reports said. Two fires, thought to
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Akshardham, Village shouldnt have got green nod: Jairam
New Delhi: Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh set the cat among the pigeons on Friday when he said the Akshardham Temple, a project dear to BJP leader L K Advani, and the Commonwealth Games Village should not have been given environmental clearance as they have come up on the Yamuna river bed. This, however, doesn
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CEC report biased, says Reddy, Can't act now says CM
Giving a twist to the illegal mining issue, Karnataka minister and mining magnate G Janardhana Reddy today accused the Centre of launching ''vindictive action'' against him, his brother and Jaganmohan Reddy to ''finish them''. Reddy's charge came at a hurriedly called press conference here after he came under fresh attack from Opposition over a Supreme Court appointed committee indicting compan
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DJB alert against water poisoning
Though the water supply system in the Capital is relatively safe from chemical or biological attacks, the Delhi Jal Board has starting carrying out hourly tests and increased its alertness
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SC wants monthly reports, Delhi Govt wonders how
The transport department will have to submit a "status report" on the number of CNG buses pressed into service on city roads and diesel buses phased-out. The job evidently, will not be easy.
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Environment court in limbo, 2 months on
New Delhi: While the environment ministry fights a pitched battle with industry on green clearances, the one legal tool the aam admi had to fight bad projects has been pushed into limbo by the same ministry. The National Green Tribunal, where any citizen could file an appeal against an environmental clearance or project in violation of environmental laws, remains out of operation.
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Gir popularity soars, 33% rise in inflow of foreign tourists
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The financial health of Asiatic lion conservation plan is improving by the day. Not just domestic, the number of foreign tourists too has registered a jump of 33 per cent in 2010. Forest officials said that from October to December 2010, Gir Wildlife Sanctuary had 2,432 foreign tourists as against 1,827 in 2009 during the same period.
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Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification 2011
After a eighteen-month long process, the CRZ Notification, 2011 is being formally notified and published. This replaces the CRZ Notification, 1991. This notification reconcile three objectives: protection of livelihoods of traditional fisherfolk communities; preservation of coastal ecology; and promotion of economic activity that have necessarily to be located in coastal regions.
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River conservation works reviewed
The Union Environment and Forests Secretary, Mr. P. V. Jayakrishnan, today reviewed the progress of works relating to the Chennai City River Conservation Project (CCECP) and National River
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Ofwat sets new targets for cutting water leakage
Ofwat, the UK water industry regulator, has announced new targets which should ensure that water leakage is cut by a further 1.5% in 2002/3 to around 3,000 megalitres per
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Settlement protects Verde river in Arizona
A federal judge approved a settlement yesterday between six conservation groups and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) that will provide new protections to Arizona's Verde River. The settlement requires
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The Copenhagen Accord: abatement costs and carbon prices resulting from the submissions
As part of the Copenhagen Accord, individual countries have submitted greenhouse gas reduction proposals for the year 2020. This paper analyses the implications for emission reductions, the carbon price,
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Environment impact assessment of proposed Gare IV/4 Coal Block, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh
M/s. Jayaswals Industries NECO Ltd. (JNIL) has been allotted sub block IV/4 of Gare Block in Mand Raigarh Coalfield, Dist. Raigarh Chhattisgarh for mining of coal for captive consumption in their Integrated
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Assessment of aquatic natural resources in the Tanguar haor at Sunamgonj, Bangladesh
<p>The study from March 2011 to February 2012 in the Tanguar haor, Sunamgonj, Bangladesh found three habitat types of vegetation composition as upland, emergent and aquatic which included submerged plants