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 …
Everybody always suspected that DTC buses were polluting, but there was nothing to substantiate it. Of the 12 DTC buses that were checked at Ashram chowk today, 10 failed the pollution under control (PUC) test. This was a random check carried out by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) with the …
The Delhi Forest Department seems to be eating up the very forest it is supposed to protect. The department has violated Supreme Court orders by constructing a four-room office building in the Kamala Nehru ridge forest, part of the Northern Ridge. The Forest department, however denies this. The department has …
To get a hold on the Valley's growing vehicular pollution, the Minstry of Environment in Nepal is working on plans to get rid of thousands of ageing vehicles in Kathmandu. Under the first-phase of the programme, the Ministry will set a cut-off year to phase out black-plated taxis - tempos, …
Under intense pressure to reduce its spending, the Brazilian government has slashed funds intended for a $250 million pilot project backed by seven industrial nations that has been in the centerpiece of Brazil's efforts to save the Amazon rain forest. Environmentalists warn that without Brazil's participation, the project stands to …
A red alert has been sounded in Jammu and Kashmir following devastating forest fires, which have been raging for about a month, causing extensive damage to the forest wealth. The fires have apparently been caused by a long dry spell in the state, which is something very rare. There has …
The State Forest department on Thursday morning arrested the main accused in the Nagpur 'quail feast' scandal, Mohammed Israel Baratania, following a raid on his canteen located on the Vidan Bhavan premises on Tuesday.
Moscow Seizing the moment when Christmas trees are in the public consciousness, the Russian branch of Greenpeace has launched a campaign for a more rational use of the forests that are potentially one of Russia's greatest assets. Sadly, at present, they are being wasted and the forest industry joins most …
For the third year in a row, fires are blazing across parts of Indonesia. Thick clouds of smog have affected inhabitants of Kalimantan and Sumatra. When the winds blow from the south, as they ofen do at this time of year, the haze blankets Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and reaches other …
The Tokyo metropolitan government has launched an unprecedented campaign against vehicles which use diesel fuel in an effort to combat the city's persistent problem of air pollution. Under the aggressive leadership of its new governor, Shintaro Ishihara, Tokyo set in motion a city-wide move to "Say No! to Diesel Vehicles."
In order to explore new avenues for the minor forest produce for sustainable forest development, rural income generaiton, and biodiversity conservation, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with the assistance of the Central Government, has prepared an action plan for Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFP).
City buses plying in the city of Guwahati have been found largely responsible for air pollution due to traffic. A total of 787 automobiles have been found emitting smoke out of 1330 covered by a survey carried out by the Assam Pollution Control Board in collaboration with police, during the …
Govt : The government on Monday said that water was a highly subsidised commodity and there was an urgent need to increase the water rates to avoid any wastage. This was also affecting the irrigational programme of agriculture, Mr Pant said, adding that there was an urgent need for a …
According to government reports, dengue fever has killed 321 people in Vietnam so far. The figure has risen by more than 50 per cent since 1997. Tran Hung, an official in the ministry of health, said 159,449 people had contracted the disease, and southern province accounts for 80 per cent …
As gray whales face new threats along the Baja Californian coast in the US, their rarer cousins in the Western Pacific are facing greater peril, owing to a consortium of profit-hungry Japanese and western oil companies, in collusion with the Russian government. The Western Pacific's 200 surviving gray whales migrate …
Advances in the technology of fuel cells are bringing the alternative power source closer and closer to being ready for commercial application. One of the biggest advances recently has come at a 10-kilowatt class experimental power plant operated by Japan's Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI). The plant …
There is one tree for every 19 Mumbaikars, reveals the first ever tree census in the city. The just released census puts the number of trees in Mumbai's municipal limits, excluding those in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, at 5,000,024.
West Bengal and five Northeastern states skipped the high-powered conference called by the environment ministry to attract foreign funds to increase forest cover in India from 19 to 33 per cent in 20 years.
By the time you finish reading this, in about 10 minutes, 8 sq m of fertile and bio-diverse Banni grassland of Kutchh will be lost to an invading alien species of tree called Gando Baval, at the rate of about half a hectare per hour. It's an emergency of a …
Two more Japanese automakers plan to put hybrid cars on the road next autumn, aiming to catch up to Toyota Motor Corp.'s front-running Prius. Honda Motor Co. is to launch a sports car, and Nissan Motor Co. intends to market a family model. Hybrid cars, which combine a gasoline engine …
