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From butterfly to caterpillar
Stung by unplanned growth, Naini Tal once a queen among hill resorts is being divested of her riches.
Stung by unplanned growth, Naini Tal once a queen among hill resorts is being divested of her riches.
During the last ten years, India has lost about 38 per cent of its inland wetlands; in some districts, as much as 88 per cent of the wetlands have disappeared. Almost all wetlands are heavily contaminated with pesticides and heavy metals. Rich in biodiver
The Delhi government has decided to ban plying of all 12-year-old light and medium commercial vehicles, including tempos and matadors and 15-year-old two wheelers in the city from January 1, 2001.
Rs 25 crore water park in Kerala s Kannur district
Sultanpur national park has been declared as an eco-sensitive zone as per this draft notification issued by Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Reports of high mercury content in us waters have alarmed American Indians in Minnesota, among the biggest fish consumers. According to a recent report based on us Environmental Protection Agency
The Sunderban area of Bangladesh will be explored for its oil and gas reserves by Shell, Anglo-Dutch oil company. The Sunderbans are the home to some of the world's most endangered wildlife.
The winter session of parliament may have been truncated. It also got underway against the backdrop of the recent assembly elections as well as scandals involving former Union minister of state for
Wetland management is drawing increasing flak for advocating misdirected conservation strategies and disregarding local needs
taxis are the most polluting vehicles in Kolkata, reveals a survey carried out by the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority. At least 50 per cent of the city's taxis were found to be
Environmentalists are concerned about reports that flamingoes living in Lake Bogoria in the Great Rift Valley are facing grave threats because of irresponsible dumping of untreated industrial
Meandering water channels always follow a gently winding path. Why this happens has been explained with the help of a model developed by physicists Taniemola Liverpool and Sam Edwards,
In a novel scheme to keep Delhi roads free of litter, the municipal corporation has decided to levy a penalty of Rs 50 on those found spitting, dumping vegetable, groundnut skins and cigarette buds
Fishing practices in Chilika are threatening the Irrawaddy dolphin, which is not only rare but also little known
The main question to be examined in these matters is whether the
Traditional fisherfolk of Chilika marginalized
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Glacial lake outburst flood</strong></span></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/nepal/floods_hl.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid;" /></p> <p>The acronym GLOF is used for glacier floods caused by the drainage of naturally dammed lakes in the glacier, on or at the margin of glaciers. Glacial lakes form when a glacier retreats, leaving the debris mass at the end of the glacier – the end moraine – exposed.</p>
Dioxin has been a cause for concern all over the world and it recently came into prominence after it was found in food products in Belgium. <font class='UCASE'>S K Wangnoo</font> , former head of endocrinology department at the Institute of Medical Scie
Mired in misery, Chilika s fisherfolk continue to doggedly fight for their rights
The ecology of the already shrinking Chilika lake is further threatened by the scramble among fisherfolk, farmers and traders to grabe their share of the depleting stock of fish and prawn.Meanwhile the state government too, oblivious of the lake"s deterio