Reply affidavit on behalf of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Gavhan Koliwada Matsyavyavsayik Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit Vs City & Industrial Development Corporation & Others dated 28/01/2025. City & Industrial Development Corporation submitted a proposal for CRZ clearance for the construction of coastal road from …
One of the victims of the climate changes that threaten the Earth would be the ethos of democracy, said William Ruckelhaus, formerly with the Environmental Protection Agency, to the Pulitzer prize winning journalist Ross Gelspan. Henry Kendall of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and the recipient of the 1990 …
the Black Sea ecosystem is threatened by a project to build a pipeline to transport oil to the sea shores from Kazakhstan through southern Russia. Some of the largest oil companies of the world are involved in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium ( cpc ), a us $2-billion project that is …
The pilferage of teak trees in the reserve forests under Maulvibazar range and shed trees in various tea gardens in Bangladesh has caused ecological imbalance in the region. Though the district administration has filed more than 300 cases against nearly 500 offenders, the efforts to stop the felling of teak-trees …
On the role of environmental historians: Our understanding of the past has been radically changed over the last 20 years by environmental historians, who have been part of a more general movement promoting an ecocentric worldview. Most environmental his-torians are products of the '60s generation. I certainly am one among …
Although free from civil war and out of the international spotlight at present, El Salvador is facing a problem that threatens more permanent damage than the war - ecological devastation. The once lush nation is turning into a desert, throttled by a severe water shortage and rising incidences of respiratory …
Ancient Hindus considered the construction of wells a sacred duty. Inscriptions on ancient wells in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, exhort the people drawing water from them to pour an equal amount of water in a nearby pool. Texts like the Vishnu Purana clearly state that one who cares for water sources …
Humans are essentially a part of nature and it is impossible to disentangle human affairs from what is happening to forests, animals, insects and microorganisms Population pressure affects environment adversely, which, in turn, affect the population. Whenever a population increases beyond the carrying capacity of the local ecology, it dies …
• Geological studies in Kashmir have shown that the rise of the Pir Panjal range around four million years ago resulted in the formation of a vast lake, impounding drain- age in the Himalaya. Later, the Jhelum emerged as a result of the near Baramulla, draining out the lake years …
POLITICAL history cannot be separated from cultural history, and cultural history is not a catalogue of events or a roster of events or a roster of personages, but an unfolding process of interaction between humans and nature. German scholar Leopald von Ranke, the father of modern positivist history, defined its …
Why is the European Union so strongly in favour of a forest convention? , I recently asked Jorgen Steen Neilsen, the editor of Information, a highly respected daily in Copenhagen, and a highly respected environment journalist himself. The issue of a forest convention is being raked up again and is …
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SHRIPAD DHARMADHIKARYmuch water has flown down the rivers of this world and many attempts to stop the water from flowing have been frustrated by the growing anti-large dam movement since the now classic Social and Environmental Impact of Large Dams by Goldsmith and Hildyard was published in the mid '80s. …
Sun-kissed sands and fisherfolk cracking coconuts at the edge of palm-fringed villages - this could very well be another day in Paradise! But the truth is that Madagascar's ecology is just living on the edge. The world's fourth largest island today has as much as 90 per cent of its …
Twenty seven nation-members of the World Tourism Organisation in the Asia-Pacific region and several other government and non-governmental bodies ratified the Male Declaration at the Asia Pacific Tourism Minister's Conference in Maldives recently. The participants pledged to foster awareness for environmental ethics among consumers, conservation and sustainable use of natural …
on march 12, the committee of secretaries of ministries gave its assent to a proposal presented by the ministry of surface transport (mst) for relaxing certain norms in the 1991 coastal regulation zones (crz ) notification to facilitate private investment, especially for ports and harbours. Environmentalists are advising caution as …
Beels are shallow waterbodies with rich macrophytic vegetation. The recent satellite survey undertaken by the Assam Remote Sensing Application Centre, shows that there are as many as 3,536 wetlands in the state, occupying an area of 1,030,76 ha constituting 1.31 per cent of the total geographical area of the state. …
the world's only known natural habitat of the rare Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) could be threatened by Thailand's bid to bring natural gas from offshore fields in Myanmar. The size of a bumble bee and weighing only two grams when fully grown, the bat is considered to be the …
february 1, 1997, was celebrated world-wide as the World Wetlands Day. The World Wide Fund for Nature even issued a statement asking governments to reaffirm their commitment to conservation and restoration of wetlands throughtout the world. However, for the numerous waterbodies, fringed frequently by marshy wetlands, and scattered amidst the …
