Old garbage for new power at Salt Lake
The Salt Lake Municipality and the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Authority will soon launch a project for power generation from garbage. This joint venture project is one of the
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Regulating living environment for public safety
it is unusual for the powerful real estate lobbies to be brought to their knees in India. But such a thing happened in Gujarat in 2002. The high court was hearing a petition on saving the lakes of
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The enterprise
Keeping both the environment and economy afloat
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Lifeline
Without water, cities in California have fared disastrously
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Dangerously beautiful
Lake Nyos in western Cameroon is waiting to spill carbon dioxide that would choke entire communities along its shores. A similar disaster asphyxiated hundreds of cattle and killed over 1,700 people
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Contaminated water claims three lives
Three people lost their lives and several others were hospitalised when they reportedly consumed contaminated lake water at Madhapuram in Tamil
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Rs 100-cr armour against pollution in Bellandur lake
The Bangalore water supply and sewerage board (BWSSB) has taken up a Rs 100-crore sewage management plan to prevent polluted water from spilling into the picturesque Bellandur lake. The project
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Tourism may kill off the dolphins in Chilika lake
The use of mechanised tourist boats for dolphin tours in Chilika lake of Orissa has proved to be the biggest threat to the highly endangered dolphin population. According to the Wildlife Society of
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Research findings may help mitigate landslide risk
National and international experts on landslides and Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) have gathered in Kathmandu for five-day international conference beginning today to finalise the findings of a
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Bid to auction 1.33 lakh trees foiled, protesters tear gassed
The government bid to auction tens of thousands of trees planted on the encroached land of the famous Anchar Lake, Srinagar, was almost aborted today after the locals posed a strong resistance.
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Karnataka plans livestock park
The Karnataka Government is planning to develop a livestock park around lake Hesarghatta near Bangalore. The park with all the requisite amenities for animals and proper environment will also become
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'Himalayan glacial lakes likely to overflow'
The glacial lakes are swelling up in the Himalayan region so rapidly that they may overflow within five to ten years, threatening the lives of the people living in the valleys. This was stated in a
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Plea to introduce licence system: Fishing in Manchhar Lake
A large number of fishermen from Manchhar Lake (Pakistan) staged a demonstration outside the local press club against the fisheries officials. The fishermen were carrying banners and raising slogans
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Taihu's water quality improves
Effective environmental protection laws and other measures have led to the improvement of water quality in Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province of China.The news was announced by officials from the
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Carbon monoxide cases linked to houseboats
Carbon monoxide poisoning has caused 9deaths and sickened 102 people in the past decade at a lake straddling the Arizona-Utah border, leading investigators to fear that houseboat exhaust may be
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Dying fish
Severe winter and depleting oxygen level in the pristine Naini lake in the hill town of Nainital in Uttaranchal are taking a toll of thousands of fish in the
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Dal Lake shirnkng due to pollution
The picturesque water of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, which draws tourists from the world over, is being stripped of its himmering beauty and is shrinking in size, with the routine dumping of waste and
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Foam destroys paddy fields
Over 500 acres of paddy fields around the Bellandur Ammannikere have been destroyed due to the foam and contaminated water which overflowed from the lake on Monday. The foam was formed due to
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Rare Irawady dolphin population dwindling in Chilka lake
The fast dwindling population of the rare Irawaday dolphins inside Chilka lake, Asia biggest brackish water lagoon, has worried the researchers and wildlife lovers in
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Casualties of development
An island and a lake in Chennai are in peril due to industries, thermal power plants and a port in their vicinity.