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 …
NASA scientists have given up their effots to located the ill-fated Mars polar lander, a 164 million dollar spacecraft that disppeared on December 3 as it started its descent to the surface of the red planet.
The Cauvery delta district of Thanjavur, rice bowl of Tamil Nadu has also proved to be a fertile ground for raising teak plantations. Teak occupied 30,000 hectares in Thanjavur district as on date contributing to nearly four per cent of the forest cover.
Mr. S. Karuthiah Pandian, District Collector, said that 1000 hectares of wasteland would be developed in Erode district at cost of Rs. 47 lakhs. He said there were hundreds of hectares of wasteland in the district.The Chief Minister had announced that 10,000 hectares of wasteland would be developed this year …
The Supreme Court has asked the ministry of environment and forests to close down illegal saw mills in the reserved forest and suspend licences of units that carry out non-forest activities. The ministry could also cut off power to these delinquent units , the court said.
Three monster black holes have turned up in Earth's cosmic neighbourhood, astronomers reported on Thursday, prompting questions about whether black holes are born before the galaxies that contain them, reports Reuters. The new trio of so-called supermassive black holes are in the constellations Virgo and Aries, between 50 million and …
a set of environmental indicators used in a Canadian government report gives a clear picture of the health of the Great Lakes. The report, The State of the Great Lakes , gives information based on 19 of 80 indicators developed by scientists, said participants at the 1998 State of the …
Cambodia's deputy prime minister yesterday accused a provincial governor and other senior officials of being behind an illegal logging racket in the north-east of the country. Sar Kheng told a forestry conference that trees were being illegally cut in Mondolkiri province and smuggled out to Vietnam despite government attempts to …
The newly-formed National Bioresource Development Board will launch an extensive tree plantation programme in cyclone-devastated Orissa. The coastal areas in Orissa have been losing trees due to unrelenting weather.
Nepal's Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Mahant Thakur has informed that the government was collecting data about the deforestation and encroachment on forest. He informed that special programmes would be launched in particularly sensitive places including Kailali.
South-East Asian officials would meet representatives from Indonesian plantation firms later this month to seek ways to prevent the forest fires that cause the region's notorious smoky haze in recent years, a newspaper report said here on Monday.The meeting will be the first such between the Association of South-East Asian …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Tamil Nadu government and the TN State Pollution Control Board(TNSPCB) asking them to file their reply on the alleged afforestation scam in the state.
For the second time this summer, the Asian long-horned beetle has been found in an area previously thought to be uninfested in New York, Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern said yesterday. The beetle, which has destroyed nearly 3,000 city trees, was discovered last week in the Queens Zoo in Flushing …
In a quirk of evolution and genetics, Argentine ants are overwhelming native California ants while forming what scientists believe may be the biggest ant colony in the world, stretching more than 600 miles from San Diego to north of San Francisco.
Ending a conflict over the fate of a forest rich in both wood and wildlife, loggers, biologists and the government of Gabon have agreed to keep bulldozers and chain saws out of a 1,900-square-mile reserve with the highest density of large mammals ever recorded in a tropical rain forest.
The French consortium has refused to commission the 30.4 mw Jagran hydro-electric project in AJK, Pakistan without clearance of liabilities and payment of Rs 73 million, it is reliably learnt. Sources said that the AJK Hydro Electric Board had contacted the headquarters of the consortium in Paris for early commissioning …
Michael Meacher, British Environment Minister announced the UK government's action to tackle the trade in illegally harvested timber. The move follows the commitment made by G8 leaders to do more to tackle illegal logging. The United Kingdom is first off the mark to meet that commitment.
The construction of the much-needed Dhaula Kuan flyover has run into trouble, as the Delhi Development Authority(DDA) is engaged in a bitter fight with the Forest department over the ownership of 2,196 hectare land.
US energy secretary Bill Richardson said on Friday, a wildfire that swept through Handford Nuclear Reservation, in southeastern Washington state, had been brought under control and there was no risk of contamination.
The Ministry of Urban Development has recommended that at least 2.5 per cent of the cost of any layout plan of land and housing development be used for landscaping and development of the greens.
US vice-president Al Gore vowed to bolster protection of national forests on Tuesday as he accepted the endorsement of a major environmental group to inject a bolder and more positive tone to his White House campaign.
