Smoke leaves Russians gasping
The people in Russia's largest city Nizhny Novgorod are suffering a lot, their eyes are becoming red, and losing their breath and they can't see everything. This is the effect of raging wildfires that have spread across Russia this summer, leaving behind the worst smoke clouds in 30 years. Thick, …
A controversial eviction drive
The Assam government's move, as mandated by a Supreme Court order, to evict those who have encroached on forest land raises some green hopes but kicks up much dust.
Sahyog initiative to save city's lakes
Sahyog a voluntary organisation is holding a consultation on the conservation of Bhopal lakes, with special emphasis on the immersion of idols and tazias in the Upper Lake. Representatives of voluntary organisations engaged in environmental activities, particularly conservation of lakes, festival committees, municipal corporation and Bhoj Wetland Project have been …
Drive to check green cover fall
Recommending nearly 1000 trees for felling under the rights of villagers by a panchayat in a year is a matter of serious concern. A panchayat has decided to start a sapling plantation drive making it compulsory for each family in a panchayat to plant 10 saplings on their own land. …
Encroachment creeps into the ridge, eats into greenery
Few people know that only four year ago, Delhi had its own gorges and canyons with canal flowing through them. And visited by nilgais and Siberian birds. Spread over 500 acres in Vasant Vihar, these canyons could have been developed to attract toursist and even Delhiites who wanted fresh air …
People's role in forest policy urged
The Youth Welfare Society for Protection of Forests, Upper Dir, has asked Pakistan government to involve the inhabitants of forest areas in finalizing the draft of the NWFP forest ordinance and provincial forest policy. Society spokesman Amir Mohammad Khan said the forestry sector reforms were aimed at involving the stakeholders, …
Joint forest management in Meghalaya
Joint forest management, a Centrally sponsored scheme meant to involve local people in forest management and development, will soon be a reality in Meghalaya. "We have removed all hurdles that had stalled its implementation so far," Meghalaya minister for environment and forests Monindra Rava told.
Arunachal files suit against Assam
The Arunachal Pradesh Government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking restraint upon the Assam Government from carrying out evictions in areas covered by the boundary dispute between the two states, a releases by the State Government said on Wednesday. The Assam Government had carried out evictions at …
Where water is a commodity
Finding safe drinking water is no easy task for many people in the vast and arid Zhidan country of north-west China. So the government has begun a massive project to build cisterns and water supply systems - it is even contemplating creating artificial rain...editorial
Raging forest fires blanket Moscow in smoke
Millions of Muscovites struggled to work through heavy white smoke as scores of forest fires, stoked by a record heatwave, raged across the city's green belt. Hundreds of firefighters, using helicopters, planes and dozens of fire engines, battled to control flames racing across some 300 hectares (740 acres) of woodland …
NDMC frees trees from concrete grip
Trees in Lutyen's Delhi are breathing again. The New Delhi Municipal Council claims the job of providing a breathing space for trees in its area is on the verge of completion. "Almost all trees in the area have been freed from a vice-like grip of concrete.
Dhiman plants sapling, promises more trees
An area of 252 hectare would be brought under forest cover this year in Hamirpur district by planting 2.50 lakh saplings in different species at an estimated cost of Rs 33 lakh. This was announced by Mr. I.D. Dhiman, Education Minister, presiding over 53rd Vanamahotsava at Guleta village about 8 …
CM convenes all-party meeting
The SYL canal issue seems to be hotting up. After meeting the Prime Minister in this regard the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Om Prakash Chautala, has now called an all party meeting to prepare a joint strategy on the issue. The all party meeting will be held in Haryana Niwas …
Cauvery monitoring panel to meet on Aug. 9
The Union Ministry of Water Resources has convened a meeting of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee which assists the Cauvery River Authority chaired by Prime Minister on August 9 for facilitating the implementation of the interim award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal.
Fitness checks on CNG not enough, say experts
Top CNG experts have expressed serious concern over the quality of fitness checks at the state transport authority's vehicle inspection centre at Burari. In a report after their second visit to the city last month, experts Lennart Erlandsson and Christopher Weaver (US), said the quality of fitness checks was a …
CNG supply cut fuels resentment
The "fall back users" of natural gas supplied by the Gas Authority of India Limited are crying foul over the cutting of gas supply to their industrial units by the authority under orders from the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on the ground that the "beneficiary" Indraprastha Gas …
Sandal oil extraction
The Government would soon bring forward a legislation to check the proliferation of unauthorised sandal oil extraction units in the State, Mr. Sankaranaryanan, said. Forest poaching had decreased and only isolated instances of unauthorised tree felling were being reported now and then, he said.
44 litre water can be saved while brushing
Forty-four litre of water can be saved by brushing teeth with a glass of water and rising the mouth briefly rather than letting the tap run for five minutes. If tap leaks are rectified immediately, 3,000 litre of water can be saved per day. This was the P W Vehmeyer's …
'Green revolution' in an industrial complex
Passers-by on the Tiruchi-Thanjavur highway and those who visit the Tiruchi BHEL for the first time often fail to locate the giant Navarathna industrial complex and the well laid out township for, the entire area is almost camouflaged by tall trees, and multicolored flowering plants. The BHEL, which has been …
Crossing a milestone mired in controversy
Human therapeutic cloning can produced by two methods. In parthenogenesis egg cell is activated without being fertilized by a sperm cell. The activated stem cells are differentiated into the type of tissue. the other method is cell nuclear transfer or cloning to form pre implantation embryos. In this instance, human …
