Fish deaths to be probed
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started to investigate why large numbers of fish in Powai lake in Mumbai continue to die even though the municipality has spent Rs 4.25crore to areate
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started to investigate why large numbers of fish in Powai lake in Mumbai continue to die even though the municipality has spent Rs 4.25crore to areate
Thw Wildlife Society of Orissa has sought a two months ban on fishing in rivers, lakes and the sea during the breeding season from June 15 to August 15 to allow spawning and ensure that fish stocks
Nobody calls the Dahisar river by its name. It's known only as a nullah. A stream gurgles its way down the Kanheri mountains at one end of the Western Ghats, to form the Tulsi Lake, flows through the
Waves of criticism against the newly proposed Kalpsar project wash away the Gujarat government's ambitious claims
Indore banks solely on rainwater harvesting, lands in a hole
Mercury hits Indian healthcare
The National Environmental Commission of Chile recently gave its final approval for the construction of a second 570-mw dam on the Bio Bio river despite stringent criticism from ecologists and
although the importance of Himalaya-Karakoram as the largest storehouse of fresh water in the lower latitudes, and the important role of their snow and ice in maintaining the flows of the Indus,
Wastefrom animal farms can now be recycled into fish food
Although wild crocodiles are considered endangered, the prospects for growth in the crocodile farming business really looks good in Siem Reap, Cambodia - up to 1,350 per cent, Nao Thuok, who is
Indian scientists gear up for a new round of experiments in Antarctica
Civic body s conservation plan may imperil Kolkata s ponds
the Aral Sea, formerly the world's fourth-largest inland sea with an area of 65,000 sq km may not die after all ( Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 12). Kazakh fisherfolk believe that a 16-km-long
Kerala's backwaters are one of its most prized possessions. But they are fighting for survival today, with reclamation for the purposes of development and commerce increasingly choking them off
Kuttanad in Malayalam means 'small town'. But the ecological devastation which human hands have wrought here is in no way small or insignificant
The desert city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan is an excellent example of how Thoughtless processes of modernisation and urbanisation have destroyed an extraordinary water management system
October 21, 2003. High level corporate lawyers from ChevronTexaco sit in the same packed muggy courtroom as bare breasted Amazonian men and women at the start of what the media calls The Trial of the Century. In the ramshackle Amazonian town of Lago Agr
This is a true story of the beautiful state of Kerala, of its famed backwaters and wetlands, of its rain swept Western Ghats. It also speaks of the grime beneath the hype of a state which is home to "a generation on crutches", and of the environmental h
Besides the communities who have done exemplary work in the field of environment, several individuals are making a difference in the lives of many people in various parts of India. Some of them, who were brought to Down To Earth's notice during the proces