Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Arun Tiwari Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 06/05/2024. In the application, the allegation is of illegal mining of soil upto 10-15 mtrs. depth from the farmer’s land by M/s Gowar Construction Limited, the project proponent in collusion with the …
ENAIBOSHO, Kenya, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a cold afternoon, three women are gathering dry grass and feeding it into a hand-operated baling machine. In no time, a bale of hay emerges and is hefted onto a waiting pile partially covered with plastic sheeting. The three Maasai women …
ON THE BORDER OF THE TAMBOPATA RESERVE, Peru — The raid began at dawn. In four small wooden boats, the forest rangers and Peruvian marines, checking and rechecking their automatic weapons, headed silently downriver toward the illegal gold miners. They didn’t have to go far. Around the first bend was …
Calangute: A special gram sabha of the Calangute panchayat on Sunday morning gave the thumbs up to the preparation of the land use map by the North Goa Planning and Development Authority (NGPDA). A resolution was adopted to seek more time from the NGPDA which had given villagers 30 days …
Modi government’s North East push will only see 7.5 per cent road target achieved New Delhi: Even as poor road connectivity in India’s North East region continues to stall the government’s ‘Act East Policy’, the state-run company mandated to improve this crucial infrastructure will barely manage 7.5 per cent of …
A new study published in the journal Elementa suggests food choices that make use of grazing and forage land as well as cropland could feed more people than those that completely eliminate animal-based food from our diets. Vegetarian? Omnivore? Vegan? What should we eat if we want to feed a …
A state green panel has given first-stage clearance to Orissa Integrated Power Ltd (OIPL) for diverting 17.02 hectares of revenue forest land to set up a 4,000-MW UMPP in Sundargarh district in Odisha at a cost of Rs 29,000 crore. As per the proposal, the ultra mega power project (UMPP) …
The representation of land surface processes and fluxes in climate models critically affects the simulation of near-surface climate over land. Here we present an evaluation of COSMO-CLM2, a model which couples the COSMO-CLM Regional Climate Model to the Community Land Model (CLM4.0). CLM4.0 provides a more detailed representation of land …
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people are better than governments at preventing forests from being cut and should be seen as a solution, not a barrier to protecting them, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People said on Tuesday. Indigenous peoples and communities have claims to …
Farmers from villages of Kayar and Vembedu went on a fast against the acquisition of fertile agricultural lands by the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) for installing overhead high tension 440 kilo volt (KV) transmission line, outside the State Guest House in the city on Tuesday. K. Sitrarasu, …
Bhopal: National Green Tribunal's central bench has asked principal secretary, housing and environment department, to take a decision on recommended land for establishing slaughter house for Bhopal within 10 days. It has also asked MPPCB to submit inspection report of existing slaughter house in the next meeting on August 1. …
GURGAON: In a big blow to plantation drive to increase green cover in the region as many as 3,000 saplings, planted during ongoing plantation drive of forest department, was uprooted in Mohabatabad area of Aravalli in Faridabad district. The plantation was uprooted two days back to clear around 8 acre …
The Goa government has recently filed an affidavit in the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Pune seeking three years to complete the identification of private forests. The government is monitoring the process and submits a report every quarter, said an official. The NGT had expressed anguish over the slow process of …
PANJIM: Staying the controversial construction and repair of bund at Siolim, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) refused to grant State government authorities time for further submission, stating it will lead to further environmental damage. Water Resources Department had sought two weeks for elaborate submissions before any interim relief is granted. …
Indonesia government has suspended land-clearing licences of 27 companies, which were found responsible for the land and forest fires, leading to the haze crisis last year. The Environment and Forest Ministry officials said that the decision was taken after the companies failed to prevent fires in their concession lands, which …
As many as 400 scientists and four scientific societies are expected to sign a declaration on Friday warning that land-clearing rates are again picking up. Eastern Australia has become the only rich nation to feature among the 11 global deforestation hotspots, they will say. "Worldwide the most important issue for …
More than a quarter of the total geographic area (TGA)-96.4 million hectares (mha) or 29.32%-in India is undergoing degradation as per decadal information compiled for the the period 2011-13, posing a major challenge to the country's commitment to the UN of achieving a land degradation neutral status by 2030. The …
More than a quarter of the total geographic area (TGA)-96.4 million hectares (mha) or 29.32%-in India is undergoing degradation as per this Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas, released in June by ISRO Space Applications Centre (SAC). Desertification and land degradation are major threats to agricultural productivity in our country. Combating …
The population of the state is about 5 crore and each individual is advised to plant three saplings. Hyderabad: Forest lands are decreasing in Andhra Pradesh. As per the national forest policy, the forest area in every state should be about 33 per cent of the total land. In AP …
An inter-department coordination meeting was organised by NGOs World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Osai for the forest and line departments and NGOs to avert human-animal conflicts that are on the rise in Coimbatore district. It was held on the Tamil Nadu Forest Academy premises, on Monday. Five key …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The department of mining and geology has issued a stop memo to KK Rocks for violating mining norms mentioned in the permit. The stop memo was slapped after a report was filed by the officials of geology and mining which pointed out that mining was conducted in areas beyond …
