The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is ready to carry out a tree census after five years. The civic body would take the help of experts from IIT Powai in Mumbai and conduct tree mapping using GPS (Global Positioning System) and GIS (Geographic Information System). The last tree census in 2008 …
The decks have been cleared for the long-pending refurbishment of Delhi’s oldest water treatment plant (WTP), Chandrawal WTP, after the Delhi Jal Board gave the go-ahead for the project on Wednesday. The Board meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, granted approval for the award of consultancy and design work …
The Directorate of Mines and Geology has submitted a list of additional 38 mining leases to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), after the mines were surveyed to map their distance from wildlife sanctuaries. With this, details of total 92 mining leases, out of total 118, have been …
The Haryana Forest Department is mapping forests damaged by fire using Global Positioning System (GPS) and plans to use satellite pictures to evaluate changes in forest and plantation areas. Management Information System and Geographical Information System were being developed by the department for better harnessing of accounts, administration, forest, wildlife …
There is a need to adapt measures to cultivate in a situation where land and water are depleting, without causing damage to the environment: V-C Groundwater accounts for more than 60 per cent of the total agricultural water use and more than 80 per cent of drinking water requirements. Climate …
The deathly sludge that entombed most of Kedarnath town in just 24 hours on the evening of June 16 and on June 17 morning may have just changed life in the Indian Himalayas forever. Survivors say they witnessed tonnes of waterborne debris flattening almost anything that stood in the way. …
Mumbaikars Suffer As Unclean Water Causes Illnesses While Rain-Related Tragedies Drown Claims Of Preparedness Most of the BMC’s promised measures to curb rising water contamination over the pastfew years arestill totakeoff. Two years ago, the civic body,for instance,had planned toexpand andupgradethe municipal laboratory in its GNorth (Dadar West) ward office.Thiswould …
The projects would be finalised and sent for central approval by month-end The Uttar Pradesh government is preparing a blueprint for 'slum-free cities' in 21 urban centres under the centrally-sponsored Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY). The projects estimated at Rs 1,000 crore would be finalised and sent for central approval by …
Come July, students and teachers in 20 schools will get the opportunity to monitor climate change in the country using scientific instruments worth USD 150,000 donated by Karuna Foundation in the United States. Schools using the instruments will serve as database for the climate change study, the first of its …
Planned at Koorgalli on the outskirts, it will help record data to design solar panels The City of Palaces, which is gradually making great strides in tapping unconventional sources of energy, will soon have a solar radiation test centre at Koorgalli on the outskirts. The development is significant as Mysore, …
The Ghaziabad Development Authority plans to introduce a project that will enable the agency to track all construction activity in the city through satellite imagery. The proposal, which is currently in the pre-contract phase, is called 'auto detection of construction through satellite imagery' and is expected to cost more than …
Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a 30-meter resolution forest cover data set that could boost efforts to track deforestation and forest degradation. The dataset, which is published in theInternational Journal of Digital Earth, is based on combining data from two satellite sensor systems: 250-meter resolution MOderate-resolution Imaging …
The much talked-about ‘tree census’ proposal by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has been put on the backburner for want of appropriate guidance. The Board’s plan to keep tabs on the City’s green cover two weeks ago received good response. But now, it is absolutely clueless on how …
The State Government has issued fresh guidelines for survey of coal blocks to determine the areas allotted to different companies. The Odisha Space Application Centre (ORSAC) will carry out survey of each coal block through differential global positioning system (DGPS) and electronic total station (ETS) to determine the actual boundary …
Bangalore: Forest department officials must step out and visit the wooded areas regularly to prevent illegal activities like growing marijuana, Kaushik Mukherjee, additional chief secretary and development commissioner, said on Thursday. Mukherjee revealed that over 6,500 hectares of forest land had been encroached upon. He was delivering the keynote address …
According to this policy released by the government, all water data maintained by the Central Water Commission and the Central Ground Water Board will be made available in the public domain. See Also Policy: National Water Policy 2012. Policy: Draft National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy. News: ICSSR plans one-stop …
In a development which will go a long way in disaster management and mitigation, the North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC), located at Umiam, Ri–Bhoi district of Meghalaya will develope an atlas to depict both disaster hazards and vulnerability for Assam. The project is part of the “Remote Sensing and …
Kochi: The state water resources department has launched an ambitious project to prepare digital maps of all 44 rivers in the state and feed them on to a geographic information system (GIS)- based platform, possibly in 3D format. The aim is to create a remarkable decision support system to develop …
A pilot scheme to ensure a stable income for farmers in the long run is to be implemented in Villupuram district at a cost of Rs 15 crore. Agriculture Minister S. Damodaran told the Assembly on Friday that the plan envisaged integration of schemes of various departments and financial institutions …
New Delhi: Most people think of leopards as predators that live in forests except for a few that occasionally stray into human settlements. Breaking that myth, a new study has found that a large number of these big cats may be residing in human habitats, quietly sharing space with people …
