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 …
Once a beautiful water body that attracted scores of visitors, Badkhal Lake is now only a piece of dry land, dependent completely on rainwater.Dry and dirty - the Capital's water bodies are dying. With encroachments, sewage and concrete constructions all over them, these reservoirs portray yet another picture of ineptitude …
Asking Maharashtra government to take the weak monsoon forecast and low reservoir levels in the state seriously, NGO Greenpeace today demanded urgent assessment of water diversion to thermal power plants. “Last week, two new pieces of information were released — one by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and another by …
In an alarming find, the state public health and engineering department (PHED) and an NGO said schoolchildren in the tribal belt along the outskirts of the city have been consuming water, which is highly acidic in nature and unfit for drinking. The source of the water for these children is …
While Goa government is planning to resume mining by September by renewing the existing leases in a phased manner, which were declared as illegal by the Supreme Court, since they were renewed under the deemed provision, Goa Foundation has warned that it would challenge the renewals in the Court, since …
The influx of visitors from the north-eastern regions and States such as Odisha, where malaria is endemic, is a cause for concern to public health officials. The State has been registering a gradual drop in malarial cases since 2010 but it will be several years before the disease is taken …
There is nothing called junk food. The problem with obesity lies with children who do not exercise enough. What is needed is for them to run and jump, and to do this they need to consume high-calorie food. So, food high in salt, sugar and fat is good for them." …
After a task force to monitor the critically endangered Great Indian Bustards (GIBs), the state government has now set up an six-member expert committee for conservation of sarus cranes in Gondia district. The tall sarus birds are facing extinction but efforts by a couple of local NGOs and volunteers have …
Of the 1,012 water bodies in Delhi, as many as 349 have reportedly dried up and 165 have been encroached upon. These startling figures have been complied through satellite imaging by the city administration’s Delhi Parks & Gardens Society. The society has also linked the entire data base to the …
Non-government organisation Uday Foundation, which has sought a ban on the sale of junk food in school premises and within a 500-metre radius, on Wednesday questioned the logic of restricting the availability of such food items only there. In its submission before a Division Bench of Justice G. Rohini and …
The Centre for Science and Environment Director-General, Sunita Narain, has demanded that all junk food be banned from unaided and private schools across the country. Food high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) should not be available in educational institutions and within 500 yards of them. Ms. Narain is the …
Provide nutritious food to children: CSE’s Sunita Narain. Asserting that banning junk food in schools is the need of the hour, the Centre for Science and Environment Director-General Sunita Narain has demanded that a uniform canteen policy be adopted by all unaided and private schools across the country. Noting that …
Children’s issues get a meagre 11 per cent weightage in manifestos of top 10 parties: CRY study. Every second child in the country is malnourished, according to the National Family Health Survey -III. Yet, the issue, described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh once as a “national shame”, hardly finds any …
Iron ore production in Goa was estimated at around 45-50 million tonnes before the imposition of the ban by the apex court in September 2012. The country’s mining community expects the partial relaxation of the ban on iron ore mining in Goa by the Supreme Court to herald a fresh …
KOLKATA, From reclaiming parks and open spaces to promoting carpools and empowering rag-pickers to manage waste, denizens of this eastern metropolis are pitching in to make the city green. As the uninviting reality of climate change becomes clear coupled with growing urbanization, smart solutions aimed towards boosting sustainable communities is …
That toxic industrial waste flows unabated in Buddha Nullah in Ludhiana and Kala Sanghian drain in Jalandhar is known, what baffles environmentalists in Punjab is that no political party is bothered about the issue. The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) claims that the steps are being taken to ensure that …
Australia is a coal country. It is big business; miners are important in politics and black gold exports dominate the country's finances. But dirty and polluting coal evokes strong emotions in environmentally concerned people. Coal-based power provides 40 per cent of the world's electricity but emits one-third of global carbon …
OBSERVING that an order passed by the National Green Tribunal had ‘overridden’ its previous order and “cannot continue for a single day”, the Bombay High Court Thursday stayed the NGT order that restricted any reclamation and land filling in Kanjurmarg dumping ground. A division bench of Justices V M Kanade …
The easy availability of food, especially feral animals like dogs, pigs and goats found near urban garbage dumps, is the main reason that attracts leopards to venture into human territory leading to a conflict situation with disastrous results for both. Leopards, like many other wild species, adapt well to human-dominated …
The fund-starved Haryana Wildlife Department is finding it hard to accommodate more elephants, apart from the existing two, in Ban Santour Elephant Rehabilitation Center (ERC), located in Kalesar Wildlife Sanctuary in Yamunanagar district. The Chief Wildlife Warden (CWW) has expressed inability to accommodate four more elephants, whom the central zoo …
The high-power committee appointed by the Bombay High Court on March 7 on river pollution conducted a ground survey of the Godavari river from Someshwar to Dasak on Wednesday. Its observations and likely solutions will be discussed on Thursday. The committee was formed during the hearing of public interest litigation …
