Vision 2025: A Ladakh roadmap
On the shores of picturesque Dal Lake, a host of intellectuals, bureaucrats and policy-makers have converged to discuss future of a beautiful but far-flung and underdeveloped region-Ladakh. They
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‘Locals should help preserve water bodies’
CEPT Profs For Upgradation Without Uprooting People Ahmedabad: As the proportion of world population living in urban areas has surpassed rural population, cities are facing major challenges in maintaining and restoring the environmental ecology that includes its water bodies. A paper titled ‘Sustainable development of urban water bodies using ESPA approach: A case from Ahmedabad, India’ by professor Neeru Bansal and professor Madhu Bharti of CEPT University’s Faculty of Planning and Public Policy was published in the International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences in November 2012. The paper elucidates collaborative learning and how to do sustainable development of urban water bodies involving local residents.
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Current cleanup standards can't protect pambar shola: us expert
The mercury level detected in freshwater (Pambar River) is 30 times higher than the mercury level recommended by US-EPA for freshwaters -- Mark Chernaik, toxicologist and scientist
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Dominica's Boiling Lake' ceases to simmer
Boiling Lake, this Caribbean island's most exotic tourist lure, has ceased to simmer. For nearly four months, the volcanic crater's usually bubbling brew has been calm, except for brief surges when
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Jepson's plan to save Vembanad Lake sinks
Grant Jepson is leaving Alappuzha in Kerala with a heavy heart. He could not accomplish his dream to build a fully eco-friendly houseboat and thus save the highly polluted Vembanad Lake from kerosene
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13 water bodies short-listed for eco-restoration
The Environment Department has short-listed 13 water bodies on the southern and western fringes of Greater Chennai Area for eco-restoration.The department will restore half-a-dozen lakes to begin
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Abode of rare birds now fish graveyard
As Haryana Forest Department Tries To Get Rid Of Predatory Fish, Sultanpur National Park Is Fighting For Survival Walk down a Sultanpur National Park trail and the dead fish you see are a terrifying sight. Tread farther and you can
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China's very own Dead Sea
A Singaporean Businessman will invest over $24 million (Rs 105 crore) to develop the 'Chinese Dead Sea' in southwest China's Sichuan Province, a report said. An ancient salt lake, which took shape
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Cold wave kills 29 more people across North India
Twenty-nine people succumbed to the intense cold wave in North India on Tuesday as temperatures dropped to sub-zero levels at many places in the region. Delhiites froze under chilly winds and the biting cold with the minimum temperature plunging to 3.3 degrees Celsius. Though Tuesday’s minimum was up by almost a degree from the previous day, icy winds forced many people to stay indoors during morning hours. Tuesday’s minimum was four degrees below normal level at this time of the season, said the weatherman. The maximum temperature was 15.5.
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Pollution going unchecked in Chitheri lake
Contamination of the Chitheri lake (in Kancheepuram)as well as ground water around it by untreated effluent emanating from cloth dyeing units on a patta land on the western side, continues to haunt
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Dried up Himayatsagar bed being dug for clay
The sprawling 74-year-old Himayatsagar has faced a threat from the Indira Prabha programme, intended to make barren stretches into cultivable lands.The lake, once a major source of drinking water to
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BWSSB studying US help to clean Ulsoor lake
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board(BWSSB) is examining a proposal from an American firm to clean the Ulsoor Lake at a low
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On Dal Lake, houseboat owners rue leaky future
As the inaugural summer breeze agitates shimmering waters of Dal Lake, numberless waves hit hundreds of exquisite houseboats floating on its surface. After many years, Dal has regained its charm. It
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NASA turns to Mexican lake for clues to alien life
With cobalt waters harbouring eerie, coral-like formations, this archipelago of lakes in Mexico's searing Chihuahuan desert has always had an other-worldly appearance. Now top researchers at the US
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NASA turns to Mexican lake for clues to alien life
With cobalt waters harbouring eerie, coral-like formations, this archipelago of lakes in Mexico's searing Chihuahuan desert has always had an other-worldly appearance. Now top researchers at the US
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Neela Hauz revival only after Games
New Delhi: The centuries old Neela Hauz will have to wait for the Commonwealth Games to get over before it gets any attention from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA).
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Scientists excited by rare meteorite find in Canada
Tagish Lake in rugged northern British columbia was frozen in January and Jim Brook figured it was th perfect time to load his pickup truck with supplies and haul them on the ice to his remote
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Man, sand and sea reduce Pulicat to a dying lake
Nellore's Pulicat lake once had that picture postcard perfection: exotic migratory flamingos, grey pelicans, brahminy ducks, a range of geese and ducks that waddled in the water as the lush green
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Case studies on flash flood risk management in the himalayas: in support of specific flash flood policies
Since 2006, ICIMOD has commissioned various case studies as part of a study on flash flood risk reduction in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. The purpose of these studies was to create a knowledge base
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Ranjit sagar lake rising
The inflow in the Ravi river has increased easing the pressure to meet irrigation demands of the Majha area through UBDC canal in forthcoming sowing season. The inflow in the Ranjit sagar lake