<p>The draft action plan on climate change by Union Territory of Puducherry. It highlights various approaches and activities formulated for adopting six missions under NAPCC to mitigate the climate impacts.</p>
MAXIMUM CITY MINIMUM AIRPORT P A R T 2 Aviation's SOS to PM: Save the Navi Mumbai airport PRANAB DHAL SAMANTA & SMITA AGGARWAL NEW DELHI Jairam floats Kalyan as a venue, ex-NSA shot it down citing `sensitive' BARC lab THECivilAviationMinistrytoday sought the intervention of the PMO to PMO to maketheEnvironment Ministry see reason over the need for a second airportinMumbai.
The Shanghai government is investing 41.77 million yuan (US$5.03 million) in a planned biological gene bank in the Huacao Area as part of its efforts to preserve rare or vital plant and animal
Soak 25 grammes of the dal overnight, and then finely grind it with ginger and garlic. Thereafter, cook it with water on a low flame in an iron cauldron for about 50 minutes. Add asafetida, red
Orissa on the East Coast along with West Bengal and Andhrapradesh has the locational disadvantage of being in the path of depression of severe cyclonic storms that occur before the onset of south-west
SHILLONG: In a bid to deal with indiscriminate slashing of forests for charcoal manufacturing, the Forest and Environment Department has notified the Meghalaya Charcoal (Control of Production, Storage, Trade and Transit) Rules 2008.
Of late, the rural poor have realised that protection of the forest is basic to their survival and they themselves are protecting it. This would imply that creating awareness among the rural poor
The Supreme Court looks to cutting losses
Wanted: a fresh approach to forest conservation
The Central Empowered Committee comprises only forest officials and wildlifers
Kerala released its draft State Forest Policy on March 21, 2007. The policy has critical implications, given most of Kerala's forests are in the Western Ghats
Forest conservation and research are facing serious setbacks due to security reasons, which has forced forest offices at the grass-root level to close. According to the Department of Forest (DoF),
South Goa Deputy Conservator of Forest (DCF) R K Singh along with other officers and host of forest guards on Tuesday visited the forest area at Polem, Supangudi and other areas in southern part of
Every second, one-and-a-half acres of forest land are being denuded globally resulting in loss of forest cover to the extent of 17 million hectares per annum. With the depletion of forest cover, more
Guarding wild life is a tough job. Tougher still if the forests are in remote areas like the Rani forests on the Assam-Meghalaya border. Straddling 160 sq kms, the Rani forests comprises three
The Ministry of Environment & Forests is exploring setting up a Forest Development Bank and forest development agencies at all levels to encourage agro forestry-based activities, the Union Minister,
The Uttar Pradesh State Forest Department officials have welcomed the Government's move to grant magisterial powers to forest officers and sought an early revamping of the forest beat system if
After the formation of Uttarakhand State only 7.52 percent reserve forest area is left with the Forest Department of Uttar Pradesh. The new Conservator of Forest of the area stressed upon the
The three forest guards, who were reportedly kidnapped by the forest brigand Veerappan were shot dead and burnt by elephant poachers at Akkamalai Sandhu in the Hognekkal forest range, police
The Ministry of environment and forests has taken a decision to give areas of denuded forest land to the NGOs and industrial houses for voluntary improvement of forest cover over a period of two
