Order of the High Court of Uttarakhand (WPPIL No. 202 OF 2024 with WPPIL NO.174 OF 2024) in the matter of mining operations in Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand. The order was passed by the Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court Guhanathan Narendar and Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari. In compliance with the …
A surprise five-minute rain shower falls like a taunt over the scorched riverbed of the Ranchería river: fat raindrops spatter in the dust but evaporate almost immediately. Nearby, a young girl and boy scoop out a bowlful of cloudy groundwater from a makeshift well to wash a few scraps of …
Efforts to prevent deforestation, protect indigenous communities and help smallholders overlook the rich vein of criminality in the plantation sector Throughout Indonesia, a vast archipelago draped across the equator, a human rights crisis simmers. Over the past two decades, indigenous communities have seen the government hand their land over to …
Maputo — The governor of the central Mozambican province of Sofala, Helena Taipo, has authorized the resumption of logging, after a closed door meeting with timber operators, local chiefs and staff of the provincial forestry and wild life department, reports the latest issue of the independent weekly “Savana”. Throughout Mozambique …
Makueni assembly majority leader Francis Mutuku has blamed a tree planting scam as the genesis of the persistent wrangling between Governor Kivutha Kibwana and the MCAs. Mutuku said an investigation by a special committee of the assembly established that Deputy Governor Adelina Mwau was involved in the supply of seedlings …
Putting an end to the discretionary powers enjoyed by state governments in granting leases for quarrying minerals, especially major minerals, the Union ministry of mines has made online competitive bidding mandatory to grant leases. Until now the states used to grant leases on first-come-first-served basis and usually such licenses were …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Common Cause Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/05/2015 regarding allotment of coal blocks. The prayer in IA No.13/2014 filed by Common Cause & others is two-fold: (1) Direct Mr. Ranjit Sinha, Director CBI, not to interfere in …
Nagpur: In perhaps one of the biggest illegal mining scams in the country, at Pachgaon near Nagpur, at least 21 forest officials and employees may face action if the list submitted to the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court is considered. On April 20, a bench of justice AB Chaudhari …
The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. The first report was published in 2012, the second in 2013, and the third on April 23, 2015. Leading experts across fields – economics, psychology, survey analysis, national statistics, health, public policy and more – describe …
Chile will move to make changes to its environmental regulations to reduce uncertainty and encourage investment, President Michelle Bachelet announced on Wednesday. Center-left Bachelet said she has appointed a commission to work over the next nine months to come up with a new environmental regulatory framework. The commission is led …
The EU’s dysfunctional political system is turning clean energy companies into a “zombie industry” of the living dead, the head of one of the bloc’s biggest green power groups has warned. Manuel Sánchez Ortega, chief executive of Spain’s Abengoa, said EU politicians are taking so long to decide what sort …
BEIJING - The Ministry of Environmental Protection has called for its affiliated organizations to cease commercial environmental evaluation services by the end of 2016. Eight organizations directly under the ministry are required to break away from providing such services for construction projects by the end of the year, according to …
Members of Brazil's environmental police force IBAMA and the Para state police inspect logs discovered during "Operation Labareda," a raid against illegal logging, near Novo Progresso in the Amazon rain forest, August 18, 2012. After years of gains against destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil appears to be suffering from …
Antibiotic resistance is a growing international problem. This has led to increasing numbers of serious infections that are very difficult, or sometimes impossible to treat. Increasing resistance involves nearly all bacteria that infect people, including very common ones such as Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. People with infections caused by …
What do China's "war on pollution" and campaign against corruption have in common? They've both placed China's coal and oil empires in their crosshairs, and they're firing away. Over the past two years anti-corruption squads have investigated dozens of high-ranking officials in coal and oil bureaucracies, with the latest detention …
A fresh report on the status of Tanzania's wildlife sector cited corruption as one of the reasons behind the increasing incidents of wildlife poaching in the East African nation. The 82-page report, which was released here on Monday, came after a study carried out by the Arusha NGO Network (ANGONET) …
The revised environmental protection law showed its teeth in its first two months, with more than 350 polluters receiving severe punishments, the national environmental watchdog said on Monday. Considered the toughest measure against pollution to date, the new Environmental Protection Law, which took effect on Jan 1, levels stiff penalties …
A Day after the Delhi government did away with the requirement of “consent to operate” from the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) for issue of acknowledgment to small enterprises, officials claimed the decision would not trigger a spike in pollution and the onus of ensuring industries don’t pollute will remain …
Scores of mining contracts in Democratic Republic of Congo have not been made fully public more than six months after it joined a global resource transparency body, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said in a report on Monday. U.S. democracy watchdog the Carter Center and three Congolese NGOs identified 62 contractual documents …
