A record 212 people who defend our land and environment were killed last year, reports Global Witness - an international NGO dedicated to preventing extractive industries from infringing on human rights. This is an average of more than four people a week. Shockingly, over half of all reported killings last …
Environmental lawyers on Tuesday raised a range of concerns over dilution of rules for the appointment, selection, term of office, removal and other aspects of the functioning of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) members. Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) had organised a meeting of environmental groups and lawyers …
Hundreds of environmentalists protested in Krakow Tuesday against widespread logging in Europe's last primeval forest as a conference of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee got underway in the historic city in southern Poland. The environmentalists demanded that the Polish government stop felling trees in the Bia322;owie380;a forest, a UNESCO World …
Nagpur: Environment assumes much importance in the fast developing world but studies on the topic are hardly taken seriously. Activists and environment officers are trained to protect Mother Nature as well as keep growth on track, but their numbers are far to less given the scale of development taking place …
Nairobi - Tanzania's President John Magufuli plans to speed up the building of a hydroelectric dam in one of Africa's largest game reserves, despite criticism from environmentalists and Unesco. The long-planned dam in the Selous Game Reserve, already listed as a Unesco world heritage site in danger, could provide 2 …
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania said on Tuesday it plans to build a long-delayed 2,100-megawatt hydroelectric plant in a World Heritage site renowned for its animal populations and variety of wildlife habitats despite opposition from environmentalists. The East African nation considers the project at Stiegler's Gorge in the UNESCO-designated …
Environmentalists say this move will lead to corruption, while spelling disaster for the city Environmentalists have raised the red flag over chief minister Vijay Rupani’s recent announcement to decentralise Environmental Clearance for construction projects. Till now, environment clearance was handled by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), which is an …
Gurgaon: More than 6,000 trees have allegedly been axed in the ecologically sensitive Aravalis after the additional chief secretary (forest), in a written order, granted permission to clear the green cover spread across 52 acres of land. According to local villagers, six earthmovers felled the trees to clear the land …
Mexico's energy regulator, CRE, gave the go-ahead on Monday to an increase in the ethanol content in gasoline for domestic consumption to as much as 10 percent, from 5.8 percent currently, even as environmental groups warned the action would worsen pollution. With the change, gasoline imported and sold in Mexico …
CHENNAI: In a big blow to realty industry violators, the Madras High Court struck down a notification by the Union environment ministry that sought to provide a safeguard for project proponents who have not obtained mandatory environment clearance and now seek post facto clearance. The environment ministry had issued a …
Environmentalist Prerna Singh Bindra says studentstoo can play a vital role in conservation Painting a grim picture of the ongoing environmental crisis in India, a new book shows the poor implementation of the country’s conservation laws and their dilution to facilitate development. The Vanishing: India’s Wildlife Crisis penned by environmentalist …
GURUGRAM: The Haryana government's attempt at diluting the natural conservation zone (NCZ) in the Aravalis, to free around 11,500 hectares of land currently that may or may not be eventually classified as NCZ, has met with an NGT speed-breaker. The tribunal on Monday issued notices to the state government and …
The last expedition of similar scale in Tibet, regarded as roof of the world was conducted in the 1970s. New Delhi: The discourse on climate change and global warming is far from over. It has taken over a larger domain in the last few years and its rapidly growing effects …
KANPUR: Good news for wildlife lovers: the Chambal region could be home to the endangered bird of prey, the Himalayan vulture. The UP forest department recently rescued a baby Himalayan griffon, also known as the Himalayan vulture, from Lavedi area of the Chambal region, months after an adult bird was …
As I enter the Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park in Jodhpur through a 17th century sandstone archway, I am transported into a magical place in the desert. The lush vegetation inside the stone walls is in stark contrast to the arid, dusty city outside. The Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park …
Concerns over GM mustard impacting pollination and honey production have no empirical basis Pollinators such as honeybees play a vital role in our agricultural production systems. Roughly a quarter of the world’s food is estimated to come from transfer of pollen, from the male to female organs of the flowers …
VASCO: Hours after Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) certified the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) as the most polluted zone in Goa, the citizens of Vasco while demanding action against the MPT also alleged the GSPCB was acting like a ‘paper tiger’. The citizens have claimed the GSPCB’s annual report …
Environmentalists rued the proposal to cut down at least 4,600 trees — mostly deodar and broad leaf trees which are important for absorption of water — spread over 94 hectares for the construction of a 150-km all-weather two-lane road between Tanakpur and Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand by 2020. Executive engineer of …
A sapling being planted in the city on MondayA sapling being planted in the city on Monday JAIPUR: Several civil groups have marked the World Environment Day by planting saplings in the city. To mark the day many NGOs have carried out several activities highlighting the importance of Environment protection. …
Human negligence and greed are responsible for the environmental degradation. The world observes World Environment Day every year on 5 June, but little is being done to save the planet except rhetoric. Growing concern over the climate change, carbon emissions, rise in pollutants, depleting green-cover and groundwater, exhausting non-renewable sources …
Navi Mumbai: The online campaign to save the Parsik Hill range has got the support of several hundreds of citizens and a few green NGOs. The activists said they would submit all its contents to the chief minister's office and then approach the National Green Tribunal to ensure against further …
