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 story of coal in northeast India is an incomplete one. For 130 years, two governments, British India and Independent India, have managed the coalfield of Tinsukia district in upper Assam. Coal India Limited took over these coalfields after they were nationalized in 1973. Other than the Margherita coalfields in …
This article reviewed on agricultural intensification from livelihood and environment perspectives in mid-hills of Nepal. Agricultural intensification has provided improved economy, food security, employment opportunities, decision-making, labor division, local institutions and leaderships. But soil degradation has been accelerated along with greenhouse gases emission. Additionally, the potential linkages of agricultural intensification …
This new ICAR study finds that the degraded and wastelands in the country cover 120.4 M ha. It provides a new dimension for their rehabilitation and implementation of developmental plans can be streamlined using this study. Sustainable agricultural development and food security will be one of the key challenges for …
The paper is an incisive theoretical overview of the continuing conflict between oil companies and host communities in the Niger-Delta of Nigeria. It examine the contending issues around the substantive functions of oil companies and the latent consequences of environmental degradation which has remained a constant source of friction between …
Rapid and alarming deterioration in natural environment has become a matter of great concern for the entire globe. Exploding population, industrialization, man-made pollution, loss of forests, etc are responsible for this disastrous ecological scenario. Carbon dioxide emissions are at historic highs and rising. Bamboo is emerged as a way out …
Schoolteachers, politicians and officials of the district administration today joined hands to chalk out measures to protect the environment. The occasion was a daylong workshop organised by the forest department here at the auditorium of CIMFR. More than 1,000 teachers of government schools attended the workshop that also saw participation …
This document is the result of an intensive work of dialogue between the ILC Secretariat and the ILC constituency, especially civil society organisations from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The ILC Secretariat - including the three regional nodes - has facilitated the process, collected contributions, packaged information, and produced the …
The Oku-Kom highland morphological and human stronghold of West Cameroon with rich volcanic soils has attracted farmers and breeders thereby rupturing the mountain ecological equilibrium through slope gulling and mass movements. Overwhelmed, the indigenes adapted unsuccessful regreening approaches but without slope gradient considerations. This paper identifies native and exotic plant …
This document details the Environment Policy 2010 for Rajasthan approved recently by the state government. Also includes the environment mission and climate change agenda for this state for 2010-2014 to prepare for adaptation & mitigation. This policy document is based on an analysis of the state-specific issues, the natural resource …
Chandigarh: Defective budgeting, improper planning, slow implementation of schemes, faulty execution of works - the report of the Controller and Auditor-General of India on Haryana, presented to the Haryana Legislative Assembly, found this and much more. It also brought to light, inter alia, deficiencies in systems and procedures, excess payments, …
Shashikant Trivedi / New Delhi/ Bhopal March 06, 2010, 0:45 IST To reverse the process of land degradation, improve ecosystem integrity services and functions, and improve human livelihoods in the target areas, the Madhya Pradesh government will pool in funds of Rs 512 crore from various departments. It will also …
An Integrated Project for Land and Eco System Management to Combat Forest Degradation and Deforestation in Madhya Pradesh is being implemented in Madhya Pradesh for checking land and forest degradation. The five-year project will be implemented in Betul, Chhindwara, Umaria and Sidhi districts. Forest Minister Sartaj Singh informed that the …
Olivier De Schutter is the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food. He aims to inform people at the highest political levels about the role that smallholders play in the world
Maharashtra’s target is to generate 33,000 MW from 47 new thermal power plants. This is a measure for its power-starved western part; some of it would go to the Nor-thern Grid. Vidarbha, in eastern Maha-rashtra, is power surplus; the region produces 67 per cent of the total power in the …
Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) organised two-day workshop on Water Management and Hydrochemistry in the auditorium of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology. The participating experts strongly recommended for proper rehabilitation of the areas of land degenerated by mining in the State. The experts also called for protecting anthropogenic population.
The aim of this forest policy is environmental stability and ecological security through increasing vegetal cover which will lead to reduction in soil erosion and consequently dust particle in upper stratosphere. The reduction in stratospheric temperature is likely to increase the possibility of rains. Increased sequestration of carbon from the …
The more one irrigates his lands, lower the amount of rainfall he can expect in the coming years. While agricultural lands are seeing drier weather, Indian cities are getting short but intense periods of rain and the subsequent water logging. This is the irony that a group of researchers explain. …
