500-year-old lake to be restored in Karnataka
Eco-Watch, a city-based environmental organisation, has plans to restore the 500-year-old Gottagere lake, 12 kilometres from the city, soon. Eco-watch, headed by environmentalist Suresh Heblikar, is
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Canada, U.S. to study Lake Ontario water, levels
The Canadian government will contribute $3.7 million to a study of water levels in Lake Ontario and parts of the St. Lawrence River.The money, to be matched by the United States, will fund the first
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Deepening of lakes to be given priority
Arora : During the general body meeting of district panchayat, district panchayat president, Jaspalsing Arora said that lakes would be constructed in each village of the district and priority would
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Rise in pollution
The Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) provides funds to the States and Union Territories (UTs) including SPCBs/PCCs under various schemes which include the schemes of Assistance for Abatement of Pollution, Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs), Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs), National River Conservation Programme (NRCP) and National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP).
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Hydraulic marvel
An eighteenth century canal system in Pune remains fresh despite long disuse
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Russia fails to cut pollution, lake Baikal lies neglected
Shimmering between the Siberian Taiga and the mountainous Mongolian border, Lake Baikal is the crescent-shaped jewel in Russia's rusting ecological crown.Conservation group Greenpeace also says
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Fest generates 500 tonnes of waste
The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike's decision to install containers at five lakes in the City for depositing pooja items like flowers, banana shoots, plantain leaves and fruits in order to prevent
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For water in Salt Lake, pay
The upper crust of Salt Lake, Dum Dum and South Dum Dum will have to cough up water tax from next year:Apart from residents in the high-income group, industries located in these areas will also be
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The birds are back
almost 30,000 migratory birds have arrived at the Harike wetland lake at Ferozepur, Punjab, a result of a massive lake cleanup operation. In four months, at least 125,000 tonnes of water
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Great Lakes still clean, but threatened by sprawl
Urban sprawl is taking its toll on the Great Lakes, but the five huge bodies of water are still some of the best sources of drinking water in the world, according to a report from U.S. and Canadian
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The rocks remain
America's Mars Global Surveyor craft, which is now in orbit around Mars, has discovered that many of Mar's meteoritic craters were home to lakes for part of their history. These craters, according to
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Action plan to save Kukkarahalli lake
University of Mysore Vice-Chancellor Prof S N Hegde today said the committee constituted to chalk out steps to revive the polluted Kukkarahalli lake has prepared a time bound action plan to save the
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Mars was once 'warmer, friendlier'
Photos from a satellite orbiting Mars suggest the Red Planet was once a water-rich land of lakes, boosting the theory that billions of years ago it may have had the conditions needed for the
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Signs of Mars' watery past
A new analysis of spacecraft photography of Mars appears to show that, in its earliest history, much of the planet was a land of lakes and shallow seas and this left distinct layers of sedimentary
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Forest fires aid in the spread of mercury in soil
forest fires hasten mercury accumulation in the soil and catchments, say researchers of Michigan University. According to them, forest foliage are huge mercury traps. When burnt, the mercury
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CM concerned over pollution levels of Hussain sagar
Reviewing the environmental conditions of the Hussain sagar lake, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N.Chandrababu Naidu asserted that a single point authority, like the Buddha Poornima project, should
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Order of the National Green Tribunal on the development of restaurants which have illegally come out in the Hauz Khas Village dated 20/09/2013
<p><a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Hauz Khas restaurants20Sep2013.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/download.jpg"
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Green activists' silent rally to 'save lake'
Activists of Forum for better Hyderbad on Sunday took out a silent procession on Tank Bund and Necklace road in twin cities carrying placards with slogans "Lake it be" to register their protest
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Japan releases 1895.94 million yen for Bhoj wetland
Madhya Pradesh's minister for housing and environment Indrajeet Kumar informed that for the conservation of upper lake, the Japan Government has allocated 1895.94 million yen under Bhoj Wetland
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Tamil nadu's bhopal
A tragedy similar to Bhopal gas leak is in the making our own backyard -- Kodaikanal. A series of flawed policies in handling the mercury leak at the Hindustan Lever Limited's failure to p factory there nine years ago has denied justice to the people and resulted in f protect a sensitive ecosystem.