Reva electric car enters Andhra Pradesh market
Reva, India's first electric vehicle, has entered Andhra Pradesh market with the opening of the showroom of the The Hindustan Corp Pvt Ltd, the Reva electric car dealers for Andhra Pradesh.
Plea to protect Solabeel
The Solabeel Unnayan Samity, an NGO, made a fervent appeal to Assam State Government to take urgent steps to save the Barsola and the Sarusola Beels, which are together known as the Solabeel. The Samity, in an open letter to the Chief Secretary today said that the Beel was declared …
Under-pass at the cost of environment
Following their tradition of irresponsibility, more than five hundred trees have been cut down on the pretext of constructing The Mall underpass by the concerned authorities. Keeping in view the desperate need of the Lahore city (Pakistan) for greenery especially on these two busy roads (The Mall and Canal Road), …
Hugging trees
A group of village women gave us the greatest lessons in environmental conservation. When a whisper becomes a shout, change is inevitable. The Chipko movement is one such shout. An agitation of rural women in a remote Himalayan village would have never made national headlines. It certainly would never have …
Amendment to Forest Ordinance demanded
The Sarhad Awami Forest Assembly (Safa) (Pakistan) unanimously rejected the NWFP Forest Ordinance 2002 and demanded that it be tabled in the provincial assembly so that it could be amended. The participants at a Safa session demanded that the provincial government lift the ban on commercial cutting of trees. About …
Dwindling forest wealth rings alarm bells
The dwindling forest wealth of the Chamba district has raised an alarm. A number of healthy pine trees have been uprooted and in the Jot forest. Sadly, the flora and fauna in the hillsies of Jot is under serious threat, but nobody bothers, says Mr Navneet Chowfla, an environmentalist.
Need to rationlise timber distribution rules
While the Himachal Pradesh state has been losing forest revenue to the tune of over Rs 100 crore annually on account of the ban on green fellings, about 45,000 to 50,000 green trees are being allotted to right holders, virtually free of cost, every year under the TD(timber distribution) rules.
Indo-Bangla meet begins today
India wants a constructive dialogue with its eastern neighbours on sharing river water, and controlling floods in Assam. It will be seeking cooperation from Bangladesh Water Minister Hafiz Uddin Ahmad in the coming week. But the visitor's response is unlikely to gladden the Indian hosts. This is because the domestic …
Cong politicising House panel: AGP, BJP
The Opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the BJP accused the ruling Congress of politicisation of the House Committee which was formed to assess the extent of illegal felling, illegal activities related to stone querries and sand mahals under Nagaon Forest Division and Nagaon South Forest Division with focus on …
Half of Swiss groundwater polluted by pesticides
A study by Buwal, the Swiss environment agency, has found that agricultural pesticides are contaminating a majority of groundwater sources. The survey looked at results from 390 monitoring stations nationwide and found traces of pesticides and herbicides at more than half of them. These substances can stay in groundwater sources …
Compromise on the EU-German road toll feud
The European Commission and the German government have reached an agreement on the new German road toll system for trucks. Under the agreement Germany can start charging trucks a toll, thought to start at
Lab turns in tests on cola pesticides
Although the Centre for Food Technological Research Institute Mysore said that soft drinks were safe as per the existing Indian Standards, it specified that Mirinda Lemon had the highest level of pesticides which was 4.2 times above the limits prescribed by the European Union. This was followed by Coca-Cola with …
Loggers rip into Poland`s wild forest
Late at night the howling of wolves still echoes through the dark shadows of Bialowieza forest, where the last European bison roam and more elks than humans tend to tread. For centuries only the odd Polish king, Russian tsar or Lithuanian duke out hunting disturbed this vast forest, a last …
Effective water management vital to avert shortage
Pakistan Minister for Environment Major (Retd) Tahir Iqbal stressed the need to build more dams and canals for water conservation and distribution and warned that the country could face serious water shortage problems in future if it fails to adopt an effective water management system. He made this statement at …
Marie antoinette oak faces the axe
A heatwave this month in France has killed hundreds of thousands of trees in the worst crisis to hit forests since violent storms in 1999 and has claimed Marie Antoinette's favorite oak tree at the Palace of Versailles. Forestry experts said the heatwave, which saw temperatures topping 104 Fahrenheit in …
To clear space for toilet, NDMC axes trees in green belt
Over 1.5 acres of green area in the heart of South Delhi has fallen prey to government greed. And this time, Capital's premier civic body is being accused of vandalism. The New Delhi Municipal Council, in a fit of inspired construction, has been felling trees in a patch of land, …
Cabinet sub-committee to shield marginal farmers interests
The Karnataka State government has constituted a Cabinet sub-committee to forward a proposal to the Centre to protect the interests of marginal farmers, who are likely to lose land in the wake of the SC order on recovery of forest land being used for agricultural purposes. Announcing this in the …
Stargrazers savour close encounter with the Red Planet
A mere 60,000 years later, thousands of people around the world will use a vast array of high tech digital and optical equipment to observe the "red planet" as it passes. From the Polynesian shores of Tahiti to outback Australia and Japan amateur and professional stargazers began aiming their telescopes …
VIP parking lot roots out trees
Delhi's greenery might be in the red, but this hasn't prevented officialdom from felling 13 rees on Race Course Road. Officially-speaking, the trees were put on the chopping block for the construction of a VIP car park near the PM's official residence."We only followed the blueprint for construction of a …
