Lake once known for aquatic life, stinks now
Ten years ago, it was a healthy waterbody with rich aquatic life and pristine surroundings. Thanks to rapid and unplanned urbanisation, the 'Dore Kere' lake at Chikkalasandra off Subramanyapura Road
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Detergents threaten India s waterbodies
<font class='UCASE'>Narinder K Kaushik,</font> professor emeritus at the University of Guleph, Ontario, Canada, speaks to <font class='UCASE'>Nitin Sethi</font> on the dangers of phosphate content in detergents
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Residents wary of a 'chowpatty' coming up along Powai waterfront
The once picturesque Powai lake (Mumbai) has been waiting for a rescue mission for more than a decade. But now that help has come, it has come with several strings attached. The ministry of
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Dal may not survive as lake, it is already a town
After throwing millions into the stinking dark tan waters, the Jammu & Kashmir government may not be able to retrieve the fast dying Dal lake to its pristine glory. Though in last three decades 938
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Economic and social issues of biodiversity loss in Cochin backwaters
This study is a humble attempt to project the evolving environmental crisis faced by the people of the most advanced urban city, Cochin, of the state of Kerala. Cochin backwaters provide the natural energy
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Conserving water for future
Summer in Gujarat spells severe water scarcity. With increased construction activity and accentuated urbanisation, water bodies like 'gram-talav' (village ponds), lakes natural reservoirs and others
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Rs 6.62 cr. sanctioned to desilt Powai lake
Central Government has sanctioned an assistance of Rs 6.62 crore to clean up the Powai Lake in Maharashtra, supplying water to the island city, under the National Sarovar Protection Scheme.
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Rs 63 crore for desilting 23,156 village ponds
Local Administration Minister C Durairaj today announced that the government would undertake a massive scheme to desilt 23,156 village ponds and minor irrigation lakes. At least one such pond in each
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Mafia in control of lakes
Mungawali which is situated on the banks of two rivers is facing the worst ever water crisis. the reason on the one hand the main lake is under the grip of land mafias and on the other nearly 90 per
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Where birds once chirped, mosquitoes buzz
In the past, purple moorhens, black winged stilts, sandpipers and teals foraged and nested at Hosakerehalli lake in Karnataka. Occasionally, a crested serpent eagle would visit its environs. Birdlife
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New York lakes fail to freeze
Several lakes in upstate New York that have frozen every winter for the past three decades broke their perfect record this year, and remained ice free. In his 30 years of studying freeze thaw cycles
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Eco-friendly plan for permanent fair ground
Saving the Maidan's green cover from pollution and turning it into the Guild's "permanent fair ground' is possible, provided the state government, the pollution control board and the ordinary book lover unite, city-based environmentalists said. The 32nd Kolkata Book Fair could not be held this year, due to the lack of a "permanent fair ground' and a token book fair is being organised at the Salt Lake stadium in March. Environmentalists think the amount of footfall at the book fair and pollution from vehicles are the two factors harmful to the Maidan's environment.
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A million trees to make the city greener
Chandigarh, February 18 With an aim to plant over a million trees in the city this year, UT Administrator Gen S F Rodrigues (retd) today launched a plantation drive at Saketri village. He also released Green Chandigarh Action Plan ' 2008. Stating that Chandigarh has a green cover of 35.6 per cent, Rodrigues stressed on the need to make the city greener by planting maximum number of trees possible. The Green Action Plan released by the Administrator stated that during the year 2007-08, 14,9723 saplings were planted against the target of 10,9170 in the Union Territory.
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Business is Dal
Dal lake - the world famous water body and jewel of Kashmir, is exceptional in many ways. Around 40,000 people locally known as hanjis dwell in the backwaters depending solely upon the activities
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Red heat
Droughts in Africa were far worse in the last millennium than is now
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Beijing aims to win over investors to Three Gorges dam
Even since Chairman Mao Zedong wrote a poem in 1956 dreaming of a stone wall standing in the river the high gorges spawning a placid lake, the idea of damming China's fiercest river has been embedded
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Clean up time
Jamnagar shows the way, starts a movement to desilt lakes
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding regulating all hotels/restaurants in NCT of Delhi, 08/01/2014
<p>The NGT ordered closure of 12 restaurants in Delhi’s Hauz Khas area for not having applied for consent to operate till date since its last year’s order dated 20/09/2013 directing them to do so after complying with all the norms.</p>
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CHINA
For the first time in decades, this August people can expect to find lakes and rivers in central Beijing cleaned up and sparkling with clear green water. Yan Changyuan, director of the Beijing
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Woes of Srinagar's still, silting waters
The Dal Lake itself has lost its glory and attraction for tourists, massive encroachments, water stagnation, silt accumulation, increase in population and growing number of house boats and hotels in