This brochure offers decision-makers in the real estate and energy industries, as well as urban and municipal developers, a broad overview of the topics of decentralised energy generation and supply, and raises awareness of the goal of decarbonisation by 2050 at the latest. The advancing digitalization in the construction and …
NAVI MUMBAI: A large plot of land, belonging to a shipyard, near the Panvel creek has come under the lens of Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB). A city-based NGO has complained to the authorities that debris is being dumped on mangroves to reclaim land. The 40,000-odd sq m plot is near …
Nagpur: In a bid to promote the neglected bamboo sector, the first Maharashtra chapter of Bamboo Society of India (BSI) has been set up in the city. BSI is based in Bengaluru and is registered as a society and trust with the charity commissioner. The Maharashtra chapter will also be …
KOLKATA: In the past 12 months, the city has lost over 1,000 full-grown trees, around 100 of them uprooted in storms and the rest hacked down to make way for infrastructure projects. Hardly any attempt was made to replant or transplant them as chopping them down appeared a more viable …
The Indonesian environment ministry said they were sending a team to look into Korindo's operations in Papua. A Korindo spokesperson denied that the company had burned land intentionally, suggesting that the fires on its land were the government's fault, not the company's. Environmental campaigners are touring Korea this week to …
A large number of industries in Ghaziabad are extracting groundwater through borewells installed in their premises, causing depletion of the water table, the National Green Tribunal was informed today. The submission that 187 out of 233 industries were extracting groundwater was made in a report of inspection carried out by …
Awaz Foundation members at the launch of ‘Gods Against Noise’, the first campaign under ‘Your Voice against Noise’ Initiative is to make citizens act as pressure group on govt to ensure implementation of rules Enthused by the rising number of people and citizen groups raising their voice against increasing noise …
Meerut: Scores of environmental crusaders on Sunday assembled near Sports Stadium Crossing here and held a protest against the chopping of an old Neem tree during a drive to widen a road a fortnight ago. After the protest, the people paid homage to the decades-old tree. Vijay Pundit, a member …
HYDERABAD: What was a clean water body not long ago, Ibrahim Cheruvu in Rajendranagar has now been reduced to a filthy lake -- a picture of neglect and apathy. The curprit? Foul water from septic tanks let into the lake and indiscriminate garbage dumping, say members of city-based NGO Save …
Mumbai: Maharashtra has officially notified 15,087.6 hectares of mangrove land across the state as reserved forest, the first state to do so. "Only mangroves on government land have been notified as reserved forest. The land will now be transferred to the forest department, which will be responsible for its protection …
Every monsoon, Natore in western Bangladesh is affected by rising water levels, rain and the floods making it difficult for students in local villages to attend school. Government-run schools become inaccessible, making it impossible to travel unless one owns a boat. Mohammad Likhon looks furious as he sits in class. …
Nagpur: The dissolved oxygen level at Telangkhedi lake is alarmingly low and will fall further post Ganesh immersion which might result in collapse of the entire lake ecology. This came to the fore during a pre-immersion water monitoring programme which was conducted by city-based Green Vigil Foundation in association with …
Panaji: Reacting to defence minister Manohar Parrikar's statements that NGOs were hampering development works in the state including the construction of the Mandovi bridge, by challenging it before the National Green Tribunal, social activist Claude Alvares said the Goa Foundation approached the NGT because the government went ahead with construction …
DEHRADUN: Titli Trust has made its finding public after conducting a joint survey with Wildlife Conservation Society on leopard afflicted forest divisions of the state for a year. In its observation, Trust has nullified perception of relation between shrinking habitat and prey base with increase in human-leopard conflict and, also …
Aurangabad: Showing the way to an eco-friendly Ganesh festival, students from Udhyan Shalini Fellowship School have pledged to install only clay idols at their homes. The students took the pledge while participating in an awareness campaign organised by Deepshikha Foundation, an NGO which works for environmental causes in the city, …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to save cows from plastic has brought into focus the long pending demand of many concerned citizens, animal rights activists and NGOs who have long been fighting for complete ban on use of plastic carry bags and the open garbage disposal system. They had also …
An all women group from Kharghar has started making bags from old sarees and selling it to local hawkers and distributors. An all women group from Kharghar — Yuvashakti — has started making bags from old sarees and selling it to local hawkers and distributors. With this, the group aims …
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi lambasted those who created nuisance in the garb of "gau raksha", TOI did a reality check on the condition of cows in the capital. During a visit to Sadar Bazar, mounds of garbage on either side of the road assailed one's senses. However, …
Himachal Pradesh government has set a target of planting over one crore saplings this year to increase the depleting green cover in the state. Himachal Pradesh was the first state in country to earn carbon credit. Accordingly, a sum of Rs 1.93 crore has been received from the central government …
After the Supreme Court, in February 2016, vacated the interim order of the Madras high court that no 'certificate of titles' are to be given under Forest Rights Act, the Nilgiris district administration has initiated the groundwork to survey lands being enjoyed by tribes and forest dwellers in the Nilgiris. …
TRICHY: Aadi Perukku is an auspicious festival when people throng river banks wishing for prosperity, but not many realise the damage such congregations cause to the environment. Heaps of garbage in the form of garlands, used pieces of cloth and plastic bags were floating on the Cauvery river after they …
