Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
A special committee has been formed to help states which have fallen short of their tree planting campaign target, said Housing and Local Government minister Datuk Dr Ting Chew Peh. He said at least three states were unable to meet their targets as they only succeeded in achieving about 25% …
The Bangalore City Corporation today launched a project to plant about 30,000 saplings of neem and honge in the City within a year. Launching the project on the occasion of the World Environment Day observance at Mattikere here, Mayor J Huchappa said as part of the project, about 500 saplings …
The Haryana Forest department would bring 18,000 hectares of area under tree cover and plant two crore saplings throughout the State during this financial year. It will also distribute four lakh poplar and two lakh fruit plants, worth Rs. 52 lakhs, free of cost to Scheduled caste families to raise …
Alarmed by the growing self-sufficiency and export potential of Indian paper industry, foreign pulp-wood exporters are causing impediments in their way by aiding some NGOs to raise "baseless" social and ecological issues, a leading government mill Mysore Paper Mills Ltd (MPML) has alleged.
The city government proposes to plant about 22 lakh saplings in the coming one year through various government and public agencies. The announcement was made by cheif minister Sahib Singh Verma on the occasion of the World Environment Day, at a function organised to release 'Green Delhi - An action …
The low-intensity earthquake that hit the Thane Khargar belt on Sunday came as no surprise to scientsis. They say that since Mumbai is riddled with seismological faults, it is prone to earthquake. "The city and its surrounding region is situated on more than ten fault plants." says V. Subramanyam, retired …
After years of bitter debate over logging on public lands, House Republican leaders in US have agreed to end one of the federal government's long standing subsidies for the timber industry. For decades, companies that harvest logs from national forests have been able to offset the costs of roads that …
Wood-based industries have appealed the government to allow corporates to undertake industrial plantations to help industries to meet their raw material requirements, they said. This was stated by Vikram Thapar, joint managing director of Ballarpur Industries, told an Assocham workshop on 'Greening of Wastelands' held in New Delhi.
Minister for interaction with industry: The Union Minister for Environment & Forests, Mr. Suresh P. Prabhu, on Thursday remained non-committal over the controversial issue of permitting industrial plantations on degraded forest lands. He, however, favoured interactions with the industry for the formulation of a national policy on development of degraded …
Vehicular emissions, the highest pollutant in the Capital, account for two third of the total pollution loads followed by thermal power plants, industries and domestic sectors respectively. A study by the Central Road Research Institute(CRRI) estimates that vehicular emissions generate 64 per cent of the total pollution loads while 16 …
In the wake of a searing hot spell, the forest areas of Bageshwar and Pithoragarh districts in the hills of Uttar Pradesh have been engulfed by a devastating fire, official sources said on Thursday.
Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea has teamed upwith Yayasan Sabah's Innoprise Corporation Sdn Bhd to rehabilitate 5,000ha of logged-over forests in the state over the next five years. Yayasan Sabah executive chairman Datuk Musa Aman said yesterday that Ikea through its Ikea Foundation would annually contribute RM2.96mil during that period …
Effects of haze not serious : Malaysians will not suffer long term effects of thehaze which hit the country for several months last year, Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng said yesterday. He said his ministry, which had completed its report on the effects of hazeon the population, concluded that …
The fires ravaging Chimalapas forest in Mexico are so massive and remote that the authorities could not even count all the blazes until last week. The blazes not only have sent jungle cats, monkeys and birds fleeing for their lives, but also have reignited long-smoldering feuds between the government and …
Since the temperature has risen beyond the long dry spell in Chamba, region has increased chances of forest fires. A few stray instances in some parts of the districts have been noticed in the past few days. But if the present dry spell continues, more fatal cases of forest fires …
The Indonesian forest fires, which cloaked neighbouring countries in hazardous pollutants, caused $4.4bn in economic damage last year, according to a study on the environmental disaster.
Given this background, the results of the latest survey on firewood consumption pattern in India's rural areas published by Natarajan in 1995 are quite stunning. This survey generated data for the year 1992-93 whereas the last comprehensive energy consumption survey conducted by the ncaer had presented data for 1978-79. No …
