Report filed by the Telangana State Pollution Control Board with the National Green Tribunal regarding state pollution control boards in south of India not complying with the direction given by the Supreme Court (Parayavaran Suraksha Samithi Vs Union of India) - wherein the states where directed to make provision for …
Kuala Lumpur, Merchants who illegally hawk endangered wildlife have begun using blogs to promote their business to tech-savvy customers in Malaysia, an official said on Friday. Authorities have arrested at least six people who used blogs to unlawfully sell snakes, birds and other protected creatures in recent months, said Sivananthan …
www.greenmap.org In 1992, New York-based eco-designer Wendy Brawer hit upon the idea of an eco-map for her city. With UN delegates congregating for several weeks to prepare for the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, Brawer wanted to find a way to highlight the city
NEW DELHI Diseases like tuberculosis, malaria and kala azar, which are often considered as diseases of developing countries, will finally get some more contribution and attention from scientists and pharmaceutical companies. Taking a lead to provide a collaborative effort from scientists, doctors, technocrats, students and people with expertise, Union science …
There is a new website to cater to rice farmers in Vietnam. The site, http://www.caylua.vn, deals with themes such as rice production, rice biology, farming techniques, irrigation, nutrition management, epidemics control, harvest and post-harvest technology, seedling nursery technology and rice products. The new site was developed with technical help from …
>> A group of direct-marketing companies in the US are banding together with their corporate clients to make mailing practices greener. The Green Marketing Coalition
Open source just one element of computerization Many claim that proprietary software is going out of mainstream. Open source software, which allows anyone to make a new software version (not necessarily an application programme), port it to new operating systems and share it with others, is fast becoming a potent …
BY YOJNA GUSAI NEW DELHI Even stringent laws and a recently constituted bureau dedicated to check wildlife crimes, it seems, cannot deter country's wildlife smugglers from trading in endangered wildlife. In a first of its kind case for Indian authorities, two men have been arrested who had hit upon a …
With oil prices going through the roof, the frenzy around biodiesels has intensified. The us Biofuels Exchange Inc. (usbe) has thrown in its bit in the kafuffle. It has launched an internet biofuels platform which links biofuel producers with buyers. The platform works very similar to the emarketing portal, eBay; …
NEW DELHI: A portal on environment and development designed and built by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), with support from the National Knowledge Commission, was launched here on Monday. A one-stop shop for all information and resources, the India Environmental Portal will enable the flow of easy-to-use information …
>> US District Court Judge Louis Stanton has ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube. For Viacom, the data is potential evidence for a billion-dollar copyright suit against Google. >> Beware celebrities who encouraging the
launching websites may become cheaper with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann) deciding to expand domain names from .com and .org to anything after the dot.
