Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
An analytical review of the interceptor plan for cleaning Yamuna. CSE has closely scrutinised the interceptor plan and found this hardware plan to be a complete waste of money. The river will continue to remain dead despite the massive investments planned during 2009-2012. he interceptor project is projected by the …
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This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country. It is a study-based approach analysing various studies undertaken earlier in the field …
This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country. It is a study-based approach analysing various studies undertaken earlier in the field …
This latest UNEP report systematically synthesises the close links between human well-being and ecosystem services through a number of rainwater harvesting cases. The cases are organised into thematic chapters addressing rainwater harvesting systems, their roles and their impacts. This report systematically synthesises the close links between human well-being and ecosystem …
NEW DELHI: A new set of data released by Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) shows a decline in pollution levels in the capital. However, environment agencies say that the numbers are misleading and don't indicate a trend. Data released by DPCC for December 2007 and January and February this year …
Government move to allow pulp trees on degraded land not sound PRIVATE paper mills may soon be allowed to develop wasteland as plantations for pulpwood. S P Maurya, director, department of industrial policy and promotion, indicated this at the PapAsia 2009 conference on pulp, paper conversion and packaging industry held …
AHMEDABAD: High level of contamination in form of e-coli bacterium was found in the samples from units bottling water and licensed by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to use the ISI mark. Of the 23 samples tested by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) after a TOI expose, three brands tested positive …
IT is 6 p.m. A couple of Hindu priests and a few men and women wait at the Manikarnika Ghat on the banks of the Bhagirathi, as the Ganga is known in the pilgrim town of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. Their heads are turned anxiously in the direction of the river …
The Bhagirathi is made to run through a tunnel in Uttarkashi, evoking strong protests from environmentalists. IT is 6 p.m. A couple of Hindu priests and a few men and women wait at the Manikarnika Ghat on the banks of the Bhagirathi, as the Ganga is known in the pilgrim …
Ahmedabad : Who is responsible and accountable to the unsuspecting consumers being fooled by racketeers who are peddling illegally ISI marked packaged drinking water'? Is it Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) who issues ISI license for packaged drinking water plants if they comply with the prescribed standards. Or is it …
This article critically appraises the incumbent regulatory mechanism in minerals and proposes a redrawal of the authority of central and state governments. It argues that for ensuring intra-generational and inter-generational equity the ownership rights over minerals should be vested with the state governments and the regulatory power with the central …
MoEF has come up with the draft EIA notification 2009 which is a major disappointment for civil society as it proposes to further dilute the environmental clearance process. This document presents viewpoints of CSE on the draft EIA notification 2009. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest proposes to once …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is the first ever law internationally, that guarantees wage employment at an unprecedented scale. NREGA aims at enhancing livelihood security of households in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a year to every household whose adult …
GHORAMARA, Feb. 25: A documentary film on climate change and its impact on Sunderban islands was released by the Governor, Mr Gopal Krishna Gandhi, at Ghoramara Island today. The documentary film produced by New Delhi based research and advocacy organisation, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), portrays the plight of …
