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 …
Khooni bhandara, a unique underground water management system developed by the Mughals in the seventeenth century in Burhanpur, Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh, is being jointly revived by Burhanpur Municipal Corporation and Khandwa district administration to supply clean and adequate drinking water to the city all year around. This initiative will …
A working group set up under the Chairmanship of the Minister for Water Resources, Mr. Arjun Charan Sethi, has recommended that the draft National policy guidelines for Water Allocation among the States be referred to the National Water Board headed by the Water Resources Secretary.
Uppalapadu lake in Andhra Pradesh which was declared as the 'Important Birding Area' stands neglected thanks to the apathy of the government. the lake which has been a haven for various migrant birds even from the dried up Koleru is now shrinking and now the birds rarely visit the lake.
Soaring temperatures and gusty winds fueled bushfires on the outskirts of Sydney on Tuesday, blanketing the Australian city with smoke and its beaches with ash.
Seven reserve forests in the Golaghat district (Assam) have been encroached by the Nagas and some non-Nagas encroachers, thanks to the sheer negligence on part of the successive State Governments.
A forestry official said that he may change parts of a Clinton-era management plan for 11.5 million acres of Sierra Nevada forest in UK, provoking criticism from environmental groups. In a letter to the head of the Forest Service, Pacific Southwest regional forester Jack Blackwell said the plan that covers …
The Sonepat (Himachal Pradesh) district administration has launched a scheme, Tarun Triveni Van Yojna, with a view to bringing about a green revolution and ensuring clean environment in the district. The scheme would be implemented in 67 villages of the district. Plantation of saplings would be started on a massive …
The Himachal Forest Minister Mr Roop Singh Thakur who is on a tour of Karnataka these days has said the Government will explore the possibility of making panel boards from pine needles which were available in abundance in the state.
Bushfires surrounding Australia's biggest city Sydney were being kept under some control on Sunday by firefighters and residents who have battled the flames since Christmas Day lived in fear of arsonists starting new blazes. Weather conditions remained relatively benign after forecasts of soaring temperatures and strong winds failed to materialise.
The controversy over the opening and closing of the Thanneermukkom bund in Kerala has a history of 25 years and is still eluding a solution. The decision of the Thanneermukkom Bund Advisory Committee, constituted by the Government, to close down the shutters now due to high tide has been resisted …
The hue and cry over the reported environmental contamination and health problems that affected a large number of villagers of Padre in Kasargod, Kerala due to Arial spraying of endosulfan has been proved baseless, if the study of the expert committee appointed by the State Government is any indication, Pesticides …
Orissa forest officials are worried over the declining forest cover in the state and the loss of revenue. Officials said the state's forest area had shrunk by 8 per cent in 16 years from more than 59963 sq km in 1981 to 46941 sq km in 1997.
At a time when the government and other non-governmental organisations are adopting several measures for the preservation of forest resources, as Wanton destruction of trees in Kachugaon - the largest virgin reserve forest of the Assam State has been continuing unabated for the last several years under the very nose …
West Bengal has done it again. The birthplace of joint forest management (JFM) and the winner of several national and international awards in this regard, the West Bengal state is steadily setting an example of how not to manage forests. "Today, states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and even just …
South Africa has banned the use of thin plastic bags. And retailers of these bags are a worried lot as they fear that it would wipe out their retail profits. The South African cabinet recently approved a ban to prohibit anyone from distributing grocery bags thinner than 80 micrometres. The …
There is one question that increasingly preoccupies about 150,000 farmers and others on the banks of the river Krishna in Karnataka's Bijapur and Bagalkot districts: when will the state government start storing water to the full reservoir (FRL) of 519.6 metres in the Almatti dam? When that happens, their lands …
Bangladesh Environment and Forest minister Shajahan Siraj said a comprehensive national inventory of the country's total forest resources is need of the hour for sustainable and scientific forest resource management.
The Kerala Government is sue to find itself in the dock for violating the Forest laws if it goes ahead with its decision to assign prime forest land to Adivasis at the function being held at Marayur in Idukki district, on Tuesday.
