Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Away from all the attention being focused on the temple towns of Kedarnath and Badrinath, temples at Yamunotri and Gangotri, which compete the ‘char dham’ pilgrimage, are facing a serious risk. The temple committee and priests say a disaster waiting to happen. Cracks have appeared on Kalindi Parvat just above …
Aiming at protecting the mass people and strategic points from river erosion, the government is going to implement a Tk 828.56 crore project titled “Flood and Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Investment Program (Tranche-I) . The Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) will implement the project by December 2018. The project was …
GAIBANDHA: The people living along the banks of the Teesta and Brahmaputra rivers are losing their cropland and homesteads as erosion has taken serious turn here in the district. Onrush of water from the hilly upstream across the border in India has caused rise in water level during the last …
NASHIK: The soil excavation activity taking place near the Gangapur dam for the past week is a threat to nesting of birds and will cause soil erosion, harmful for both, human and animals, city's environment activists have said. On the occasion of World Environment Day on Thursday, activists voiced their …
Erosion by the River Jamuna has taken an alarming turn in the last few days, devouring at least 200 homesteads, four schools and a vast tract of cropland in Sadar and Chowhali upazilas of Sirajganj district. A high school and three primary schools of Chowhali upazila have gone into the …
China's cities are expanding rapidly as its economy grows. Yet land for development is in short supply, particularly in mountainous areas, where about one-fifth of the population lives. In the past decade, local governments have begun removing the tops of mountains to fill in valleys to create land on which …
Damauli, June 2: Some 40 houses at Bhimad bazaar are at risk due to the erosion by Seti River. The houses have been put at the risk after the river started eroding the area every year. According to the Seti River Control and Bazaar Management Committee, the locals of the …
The European Commission has announced the withdrawal of its proposal for a Soil Framework Directive and for a directive on access to justice in environmental matters, which would have transcribed the third pillar of the Aarhus Convention into European law. The decision was praised by the UK Government, which has …
Erosion by the River Brahmaputra took a serious turn in the last one week, rendering at least 300 families in different villages homeless in Sadar and Rajibpur upazilas of Kurigram district. The affected villages are Char Jatrapur, Kazipara, Baldipara and Garuhar in Sadar upazila and Uttarpara (Nayarchar), Munshipara (Nayarchar), Shankurpara …
The All Assam Water Resources Contractors Association today put forth several of their demands regarding improvement of the State flood and erosion scenario in front of the new MPs elected from the State and hoped that the new representatives will take a bold stance to solve the worsening flood and …
The river erosion will also render as many as 35 thousand people landless At least 3,666 hectares of fertile land and 485 hectares of settlement on both sides of the bank of Jamuna, Ganges, Padma and lower Maghna rivers will disappear intro river water because of erosion. The river erosion …
A human chain was formed on Saturday at Nayarchor area under Rajibpur upazila in Kurigram to prevent river erosion. Hundreds of people from all walks of life attended the human chain. As the water level rises at Nayarchor area of Mohanganj union, the severe erosion of Brahmaputra River starts at …
Erosion by the River Jamuna took a serious turn in the last three days, rendering hundreds of families of 15 villages homeless and devouring a vast tract of croplands in Daulatpur and Shivalaya upazilas. The erosion victims, who took shelter on roads and highways, are passing their days in misery …
Observing that climate change is altering the planet in ways that will have profound impacts on humankind, US President Barack Obama has urged Americans to protect environment for a healthy and sustainable future. US President Barack Obama "Today, we face a problem that threatens us all. The overwhelming judgement of …
Located deep in the Dudhwa National Tiger Reserve, barely 10 km west of the Gauri-Phanta checkpost along the India-Nepal border, Nijhota village has little relevance on the political map of Uttar Pradesh. The last village on Indian soil along the international borders, Nijhota has seen little political activity this poll …
Power project on Lamba Dug Residents of the Chhota Bhangal area of Baijnath sub-division have announced that they will intensify their agitation against a private power company, who is constructing a 25 MW power house on the Lamba Dug in Multhan. A spokesperson of the Sangarash Samiti informed mediapersons at …
The four major rivers — Jamuna, Ganges, Padma and Meghna — may grab around 3,700 hectares of land leaving 36,680 people landless and homeless this year. A prediction report of Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) said 485 hectares of settlement, 5.6 kilometers (km) of active embankment and …
Critics say bioenergy, carbon capture, among draft report's 'false solutions' to sustain business as usual economics A British environmental organisation that has reviewed the draft of a forthcoming UN IPCC report on mitigating climate change has questioned many of the document's recommendations as deeply flawed. Dr Rachel Smolker, co-director of …
On 8 August 2010 in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu, a rainstorm-triggered debris flow devastated the small county of Zhouqu. A modeling study, using a new multiple-phase scalable and extensible geofluid model, suggests that the cause is an intersection of several events. These were a heavy rainstorm, not necessarily …
Over a dozen illegal stone quarries are operational at Manjhphat and Baskharka, the north VDCs of Parbat. Private land, public playground and forest area has been used to operate illegal quarries at Banskharaka wards no. 1 and 8 and Majhphat-9. Such illegal operation of quarries has caused a risk of …
