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India State of the Environment Report : The Monthly Overview, September 2013

The Kerala government has decided to appeal against two national green tribunal orders that said that the government should take note and adhere to the recommendations of the Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report while approving private and commercial development in eco-sensitive zones. Read more in this September 2013 edition of the Monthly India State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
- 30/09/2013
- Centre for Science and Environment
- - Environment
  - Climate Change
  - Floods
  - Natural Disasters
  - Energy
  - National Green Tribunal (NGT)
  - Pesticides
  - Health
  - Industrial Disasters
  - Land
  - Droughts
  - Pollution
  - Forests
  - Dams
  - Mining
  - Agriculture
  - South Asia
  - India
Dam dooms park

A PROPOSED dam in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, has raised a storm of protest, reports Dewi Sartika. The hydro-electric project is to be sited at Lore Lindu National Park, in Donggala Regency, about
- 14/05/1994
- Down To Earth
The hidden reservoir

SATELLITE imagery suggests that there should be a large reservoir -- most probably an artificial one -- buried southwest of Dholavira. One of the best cultivated fields in the locality is contiguous
- 14/05/1994
Hydrology project

india is facing an acute water shortage, and various attempts are being made to overcome the problem. One such effort was made by the government of India when it set up a Hydrology Project in
- 14/07/1999
- Down To Earth
- - Water Resources
  - Water Quality
  - Aid
  - Hydrology
  - Research
  - India
Fiction imitates life

Movie In the current us election season, Dickie Pilger's website seems quite a model. Here is a candidate extolling state funding of healthcare and stands for protecting the environment.
- 14/10/2004
- Down To Earth
- - Politics
  - United States Of America (US)
Saving Chilka

TWENTY-ONE members of Parliament have petitioned the Prime Minister to save Chilka Lake, a major wetland in the country. They have protested against the state government giving advance
- 14/06/1992
- Down To Earth
- - Environment
  - Chilka
  - Fish
  - Aquaculture
  - Endangered Species
  - India
Is the army guilty?

the Citizens for Preservation of the Quarries and Lakes Wilderness (cpqlw), a non-government organisation has accused the army of carrying out illegal construction and felling of trees in a
- 29/06/1999
- Down To Earth
Another dead sea

The presidents of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, along with the Russian deputy prime minister have agreed to set up a joint fund to save what was once the world's
- 14/03/1994
- Down To Earth
On the right track

China invested heavily in environmental protection in 1998
- 14/06/1999
- Down To Earth
In Short

toxic taint: Green Indian seedless grapes have been taken off supermarket shelves in Belgium following the detection of high levels of pesticide residues in the product in the Netherlands recently.
- 14/06/2003
- WHO
Short cut to disaster

When a straight cut was dug to quicken the discharge from Kolleru lake, a small island became the casualty.
- 30/12/1993
Glaciers in the tropics are threatened

global warming is for real, say researchers at Ohio State University, usa. They have presented startling evidence of global warming affecting the tropics at the annual meeting of the American
- 30/03/2007
- Down To Earth
Cleaning China

The Chinese government introduces pollution control measures
- 14/02/1999
- Down To Earth
Project protest

LOCAL environmental groups in South Korea have strongly demanded an end to a large-scale reclamation project now underway on the nation's south western coast. "The project should be scrapped
- 14/02/1999
- Down To Earth
- - Environment
  - South Korea
Turtle terror

TURTLES, bought originally as children's pets at the height of the Mutant Ninja Turtle craze, are posing a serious threat to bathers in the French Riviera. Biologists say the pet turtles,
- 29/09/1993
- Down To Earth
- - Beaches
  - Fish
  - Turtles
  - France
Saving future

Solution to crisis: start planning now
- 30/05/2004
Dicey waters

nine out of 10 Japanese waterways are contaminated with hormone-disrupting chemicals, according to the country's Environment Agency. A survey conducted by the agency found that 11 such chemicals
- 14/01/1999
- Down To Earth
Hussain Sagar goes to toxic waste

For the past five years Hyderabad has been trying to clean the Hussain Sagar Lake, separating the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh. The efforts suffered yet another blow on June 20 when the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) denied permission to dredge the mouths of four nalas releasing waste water into the lake and to dispose it of at a nearby quarry.
- 31/08/2010
- Down to Earth
Anaemia rampant in women in Bageshwar

A health camp conducted in Sama, 60 km north of Bageshwar in Uttaranchal in November, revealed that anaemia, chronic infections, gout, tuberculosis and rheumatoid arthritis are the common ailments
- 30/12/2006
ARGENTINA

General Juan Domix Peron's idea of introducing beavers in Tierra del Fuego, the snowy archipelago on the tip of South America, half a century ago seems to have gone seriously
- 29/09/1998
- Down To Earth