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. …
In the high court of judicature at Bombay criminal writ petition of 2008 on pesticide residues monitoring study analyzing self collected environmental and biota samples from Padre village in Kasargod district of Kerala for endosulfan residues.
Aanand Pandey / New Delhi December 9, 2008, 0:33 IST When your reputation is under attack, do not look for someone to blame, do not weasel out by citing technicalities, and do not sidestep responsibility. The to-do list forms this article. While you read it, send for Amitabh Bachchan Midway …
By Shruti Badyal, New Delhi What most of us perceived for long as an early onset of winter, is not so. As the glaciers on the mighty Himalayas are melting faster and the weather getting more extreme, a United Nations study has warned many Asian cities, from New Delhi to …
CSE's Press Release delivered by Sunita Narian is presented here. CSE charts an agenda for action in Poznan, calls for tough action to reduce emissions and an agreement based on equity The 14th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has begun on …
The focus of this publication is efficient water use in urban and domestic environments and decision-making about sustainable development of human settlements. The book is written as a Sourcebook, highlighting essential questions that will have different answers in different situations. By looking at water use efficiency within the context of …
The haze, or an atmospheric brown cloud hanging over major Asian cities including Delhi and Mumbai, essentially affects local conditions and can be swept away by a new weather system or winter rains as is often the case in the Capital. A day after the UNEP released a report pointing …
New Delhi: High concentration of ground level ozone is fast threatening the health of Delhiites. According to several studies, the level of the pollutant, formed when ultraviolet rays react with pollutants, specially NOx, has risen significantly in the city over the past few years. The Central Road and Research Institute …
Domestic automobile companies are equipping new car models with the next-generation, Euro-V engines, which will facilitate them to explore newer export markets in Europe and the US. The auto majors have introduced a range of petrol engines for their compact cars, which comply with the Euro-V norms and are meant …
Even without looking at the air pollution figures we know from the darkened sky-line that Delhi's air quality gains will be lost this winter. Air has begun to get heavy with dust, smoke and particles. Calm and cool weather is blocking the dispersal of smoke and pollutants. Low-hanging shroud impairs …
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta convened a meeting in the Capital on Monday to draw up an action plan to reduce air pollution during winter. The meeting was attended by Environment Pollution Control Authority chairman Bhure Lal and Centre for Science and Environment director Sunita Narain besides representatives …
The Union government of India has drafted the Compensatory Afforestation Bill, 2008 to establish a compensatory afforestation fund. Revenues collected from agencies that divert forests (even protected ones) for non-forest use will be pooled into this corpus. Net present value (NPV) has been adopted as an economic tool to calculate …
Though the Nano project is yet to take root, realty players and even small time investors are already on a buying spree around the Sanand -Viramgram highway---------- Dussehra celebrations came as a double bonanza for Gujarat. The Nano has finally shifted home to Sanand, Gujarat. After making history of a …
Though the Nano project is yet to take root, realty players and even small time investors are already on a buying spree around the Sanand -Viramgram highway Dussehra celebrations came as a double bonanza for Gujarat. The Nano has finally shifted home to Sanand, Gujarat. After making history of a …
SHILLONG: State Pollution Control Board had conducted an extensive study on the impact of mining and the report was submitted in 1997. An expert committee had suggested at that time that a State Mining Policy was imperative. State Government never shared the report and did nothing with it. This information …
CSE releases report on mining By Our Reporter SHILLONG: Amid persistent public outcry against the Centre's push for uranium mining in Meghalaya, Governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary on Monday gave the thumbs up to the project for the sake of development, while taking a dig at anti-mining bodies for being silent …
