The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The question is whom to manage and what to regulate An official of the environment ministry said that the new notification is better because it is site specific.
Most coastal states, except Orissa, against the notification; environment ministry will take a call in June 2009 The ball is now in the environment ministry
M S Swaminathan, chairperson of the expert committee to review and make recommendations with regard to implementation of Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991, spoke to Down To Earth on the guiding principles of the committee
Starting with the granddaddy of them all, Project Tiger in 1973, to the more recent vehicular pollution norms and the coming up of sustainable architecture, a green agenda has been part of governance much before it became a globally cool movement. Whether it was creating biosphere reserves or establishing the …
Pre-empting the annual National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) meeting, slated to be held soon, 11 independent NBWL members met Ministry of Environment and Forests officials on Monday and demanded a separate wildlife cadre, dedicated to wildlife management. Environmentalists have for long been demanding a separate wildlife service, differentiated from the …
The Environment Appraisals Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests has agreed in principle to the construction of the Renuka Dam in Himachal Pradesh. With this clearance, the work on the dam is expected to pick up and conclude in six years time. The Dam, on the Giri River, …
The environmental clearance offered to the Koodankulam reactors in Tamil Nadu is not based upon a careful examination of all the potential impacts on the environment and livelihoods nor does it incorporate public concerns.
The climate change conference in Poznan, which ended last week, would be remembered for little else but the activation of the Adaptation Fund a year after it was set up. Developing countries, including India to some extent, can now send proposals to the Fund for projects to safeguard vulnerable communities …
Clearing the air over the seismic survey on the Brahmaputra riverbed, the Multi Disciplinary Advisory Group (MDAG), constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for providing guidance on seismic survey, today clarified that Oil India Limited (OIL) had not been allowed to carry out any survey.
GUWAHATI, Dec 15: Green signal from the Multi-Disciplinary Group (MDAG) constituted in accordance with the directive of the Ministry of Environment and Forest is a must for Oil India Limited (OIL) to conduct the proposed seismic survey of the Brahmaputra bed. The MDAG will give its mandatory nod only if …
RTI sets a precedent the environment and forests ministry will now have to release all information related to the amendment of the 2006 environment impact assessment (eia) notification. The ministry will also have to make public, details of approvals the National Biodiversity Authority (nba) has granted for access and use …
New scheme, old proposal THE Union environment and forests ministry has come up with a new scheme for compensatory afforestation in case of forest land being diverted for non-forest use. Under the scheme the user will identify a piece of land, develop a forest and transfer it to the forest …
Even as the dreaded Avian Influenza (H5N1 strain) has come back to haunt India, particularly through the recent outbreak in Assam, the Chilika lagoon has been included in a multi-centre study aiming to identify sources of the killer virus. The first of its kind initiative carried forward through an international …
GUWAHATI, Dec 5: Like many of its other negative achievements, Asom has topped in encroachment of forest lands in the country. The State Government has, however, put the blame on the Recognition of Tribal and other Traditional Dwellers Act, 2005 for its failure to free 3.5 lakh hectares of forest …
