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 …
Mumbai: The Mahim coastline is fast disappearing, claim fishermen residing by the seafront. On Monday afternoon, sea water came gushing in and claimed portions of the land. Chandrakant Keni, chairman, Mahim Nakva Macchimaar Sahakari Society, a representative outfit for the local fishermen, said that a makeshift asphalt road constructed to …
A group of engineers here claim that a local technology has been developed to narrow down the ever-widening Brahmaputra and to make it follow a desired and deep course with steeper flow gradient. The Brahmaputra has greatly widened almost all through its course in the State, except at places like …
US $1 TRILLION WORTH OF MINERALS Afghanistan is suddenly richThe Pentagon recently announced that Afghanistan is sitting on mineral wealth worth US $1 trillion—about 1,000 times the government’s annual revenue. The untapped mineral deposits, including iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium, a key raw material for laptop, cell phone and …
KOLKATA, 13 JULY: According to the District Human Development Report on South 24-Parganas, which was released yesterday, 15 per cent of Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forests, may be submerged by the year 2020. However, an uncertainty prevails over the data. An environmentalist who was involved with the project, said …
SHILLONG, July 6: State Minister of Soil and Water Conservation Prof RC Laloo today said that in the current trend of inter-agencies and integrated approaches to development, convergence and interchange of information assumed significance. Speaking at the function for the release of the annual report of the Soil and Water …
BALAGARH, 4 JULY: Hundreds of people in the Balagarh block of Hooghly, whose villages are close to the river Hooghly, have been having sleepless nights ever since the river started eroding its embankments. Mr Khudiram Das (70), a resident of Sundarpur village in Somra I gram panchayat, said they have …
In a field study five grass species, viz. Marvel grass, Para grass, Vetiver grass, Karnal grass and Napier grass were evaluated to assess their suitability as biological reclaiming agent and vegetative barriers for reclaiming as well as reducing soil erosion and enhancing in situ water conservation in a moderate sodic …
Soil and water are two very scarce important natural resources without which crop production is not possible. Soil degradation due to erosion and the depletion of ground water resources are the two major environmental problems threatening agricultual production and productivity in the riverine belt of Assam.
In India, seabuckthorn is widely distributed at high altitude, cold arid Trans Himalayan regions of Ladakh, Lahul-Spiti, parts of Chamba and upper Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. It plays an important role in soil erosion control, slope stabilization, reclamation of degraded and wastelands.
Most countries require an environmental impact assessment (EIA) before giving the green light to a mining project. EIA processes provide a valuable opportunity for citizens to participate in decisions about mines. The problem is, project proponents often submit long, complex EIA documents that are incomprehensible to lay people. The Guidebook …
Resentment prevails among the river engineers here over the persistent pressure from a powerful lobby in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for use of geo-bags to resist Brahmaputra erosion in Palasbari-Gumi and Dibrugarh. It needs mention here that the State Government is working on a scheme to protect Palasbari, Bankuwal …
The Assam government has roped in a group of German experts for finding a long-term solution to the decades-old problem of floods and erosion caused by the Brahmaputra and its tributaries, and a preliminary report has been prepared and submitted to the state government by the group. The state is …
