Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
The GEF and UNCCD Secretariats have jointly published a book on sustainable land management (SLM) projects, highlighting the impact of many of these projects in achieving SLM, as well as experiences and lessons learned. The book, titled "Land for Life: Securing Our Common Future," delves into various land sustainability programs …
More than two billion people depend on the world’s arid and semi-arid lands. Preventing land degradation and supporting sustainable development in drylands has major implications for food security, climate change and human settlement. This report, issued at the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against …
The popularity of tropical shrimp – often marketed as scampi, giant shrimp, gambas or tiger prawns - is having a devastating impact on local communities in Bangladesh, reveals a new investigation produced in conjunction with the Ecologist's film partner.
The compensation cheques for the land subsidence affected people of Barapukuria Coal Mine area were distributed among the affected people at the Barapukuria Coal Mine Company office in the district yesterday. At least 201 affected people got the compensation cheque and around 515 affected people will receive the money gradually, …
In recent years, prices of agricultural land have increased quickly, actually doubling and tripling in many parts of the world. This land value reassessment has been prompted by rising crop prices and perceived land scarcity. But even as the value of land rises, land degradation continues and investments to prevent …
Sustainable management of the natural resource base supporting agriculture is one of the three major strategic objectives of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (CRP5) combines the resources of 14 CGIAR and numerous external partners to provide an integrated …
Days after the Supreme Court temporarily banned mining in Bellary, the suspended miners want the state’s forest department to share responsibility for the environmental degradation. The miners, including one of the largest — Sandur Manganese Iron Ore, have said that if the rationale for last week’s Supreme Court decision to …
Peerzada Abdul Ali Zakir Usmani, President of Anjuman Kashtkaran Punjab (AKP) has stressed the need for introduction of Organic Agriculture System (OAS) in Pakistan to bring a green revolution as organic agriculture is considered to be a holistic food production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. …
Environment and Human Health gives a comprehensive review of the related literature in order to aid understanding of the (missing) link between the environment and health. Given the exhaustive literature on the subject the paper focuses on the water‐related and land‐related diseases namely in the fast growing and poor countries. …
Guwahati, July 21: Assam power minister Pradyut Bordoloi today categorically said the state government would not concede to the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) demand to halt construction of the 2,000MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project. He said the Assam government was not in favour of halting construction of the project …
The Union ministry of environment and forests has expressed concern over environmental degradation along the hills of Karbi Anglong in proximity to Kaziranga National Park. Former Union environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh had written to Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi last month, saying the ministry had been receiving a …
The overall objectives of the study was to explore possibility of REDD plus implementation in CFM areas. Furthermore the study assessed the bio-physical potentiality of forests in line to climate change adaptation. The specific objectives of the study were as: To analyze forest management status in CFM sites; To analyze …
This new report released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests provides a holistic overview capturing comprehensively India's policies and programme related to desertification, land degradation & drought. This report provides a holistic overview capturing comprehensively India's policies and programme related to desertification, land degradation and drought. Poverty and environmental …
Deforestation and forest degradation have been occurring for thousands of years. Both deforestation, which completely removes the forest canopy, and degradation, which maintains the canopy but causes losses of carbon, are important sources of global warming pollution, as well as threats to biodiversity and to the livelihoods of forest peoples. …
The challenge of feeding a growing population of 9 billion by 2050 requires collaboration across all stakeholders on a scale never seen before and it has to start now, according to the DuPont Advisory Committee on Agriculture Innovation and Productivity for the 21st Century. The committee released a report detailing …
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110520/main4.htm Chandigarh: The Mohali district administration today swooped down on those indulging in illegal mining of sand and gravel, and registered several FIRs (First Information reports) against 137 persons. Following the news report in The Tribune today, about large scale illegal mining of minor minerals (sand and gravel) in and …
JAIPUR: Protests against mining activities in a village near Sikar turned violent on Wednesday when police used force to disperse the demonstrators. Nearly a dozen protesters, including women, were detained for the demonstration, police said. Eyewitnesses said one person, Om Prakash, was injured in the head and had to be …
The studies of UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) indicated that, over the preceding 20 years, the problem of land degradation had continued to worsen due to human activities and climate change such as prolonged or frequent droughts aggravating land degradation. This led formally defining desertification as “land degradation” in arid, …
A review of literature on global evaluations of land degradation shows a significant development in methods and approaches to mitigate it. Earlier evaluations based their assessments on expert opinion and concentrated on only a few types of land degradation—namely soil erosion and deforestation. Recent studies have expanded the types of …
The main objectives of the study are: To analyze the agricultural growth in all the 17 river basins of Tamil Nadu using the total factor productivity approach; To study the income inequality in all the river basins of Tamil Nadu, and To suggest policy options to improve the productivity of …
