City lakes turn into dumping grounds
The Lower Lake in Bhopal is fast turning into dumping grounds for sewage as 18 nullas vomit filth into it besides being encroached upon from other three
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Climate change could devastate U.S. wetlands
Global climate change threatens the health of lakes, streams, rivers and wetlands throughout the United States, finds a new report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The temperature
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California approves record environmental bond
California residents voted to spend $2.6 billion to fund water quality and restoration projects for rivers, streams, lakes and watersheds throughout the state. The passage of Proposition 40 will
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Environment act
A special legislation on Chilka Lake will soon come into force to make the largest brackish water lagoon of Asia free from encroachment and illegal prawn
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Mayor promises to clean up Ulsoor Lake
The Bangalore City Corporation (BCC) has proposed a Rs 10-crore project to rejuvenate the Ulsoor Lake. Work on the project will begin in October, Mayor K Chandrashekar said. The project will be
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Agara lake - a dumping site for garbage
One of the few remaining water bodies in Bangalore city - the Agara lake - is facing the threat of extinction owing to negligence of the authorities concerned and indiscriminate dumping of waste,
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Felling of trees banned in Salt Lake
Alarmed at the erosion of its green cover, the Salt Lake municipality has clamped a ban on the felling of trees. The civic board, which met on Thursday, decided that neither commoner nor councilor
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Inquiry ordered into fish death
Deputy Commissioner B Basavaraju has ordered a thorough investigation into the largescale death of fish in the Yennehole Lake, near Mandakalli in
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Check encroachments on Dal Lake
CM : Chief Miister Farooq Abdullah has called for effective monitoring of the Dal Lake to check encroachments therein and asked the agency concerned to ensure that people rehabilitated elsewhere do
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Sand theft alert in Salt Lake
Engineers and soil experts have sounded a red alert for Salt Lake. Buildings in the township may develop cracks or even collapse if digging up of vacant plots is not checked immediately. Truck loads
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Death of fish: Efforts on to prevent cholera
The stench from the thousands of fish which have died due to poisoning in the Benakana lake near Devadurga in Karnataka has polluted the whole environment in the area. Though the dead fish are
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Report on Dal Lake conservation prepared
The cash starved Jammu and Kashmir state which has already spent a huge amount in the conservation of world famous Dal Lake which unfortunately filled the coffers of the employees of Jammu and
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Take GLOF threats seriously
Although a recently completed donor funded project has lowered the water of Tsho Rolpa, the threat of Glacial Lake Outbrust Flood (GLOF) still remains in Nepal. Apparently the water level of Tsho
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Cattle die as chemical plant pollutes lake
Industrial effluents from Watsal Organic Chemical factory has polluted the Rajagopalpet lake (Nangunar,Andhra Pradesh) in mandal to such an extent that cattle around the region are dying after
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Lake biology is slow to recover from acid rain
Two decades of research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have revealed that while the chemistry of a lake can recover from acid rain relatively quickly under natural conditions, biological
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Michigan pact resolves battle over limits on Indian fishing
The federal government, the State of Michigan and five American Indian tribes in northern Michigan signed an agreement today aimed at rebuilding fish populations in the upper Great Lakes and
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Paper units told to use hyacinth
The Punjab Government is understood to have approached several paper mills to procure water hyacinth, which has virtually eaten up the wetland lake at Harike causing serious raminficaitons to its
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Is Lake Baikal in deep danger?
Environmentalists accuse the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper mill of polluting Lake Baikal. An international campaign is seeking to close the plant, and the environmentalist group Greenpeace has begun
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Birds back in Harike with fishermen's exit
With the bird sanctuary lake and its periphery in Harike (Ferozepore) having been cleared of the fishermen, the arrival rate of migratory birds has risen in the area. Earlier, on account of frequent
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Experts concerned at threat to wetlands
: Pakistan blessed with a variety of wetlands ranging from the coastal mangroves and mudflats on the Indus Delta to the glacial lakes of the high Himalayas is yet to evolve a wetland conservation