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 …
The ongoing wanton destruction of the mangroves in the Puttalam lagoon has resulted in immense environmental damage to the lagoon and the surrounding area. Environmentalists and the residents of the area expressed concern for haphazard clearing of the mngroves by a group of racketeers receiving political patronage. The mangroves in …
Phosphorus has been used extensively for over 100 years as a fertiliser in modern industrial agriculture. This underappreciated resource is still decades from running out. This paper published in Scientific American advises us to act now to conserve it, or the future agriculture could collapse. As complex as the chemistry …
This latest report examines the current state of knowledge and research needs with respect to global trends in oil palm production and their impact on the environment and livelihoods, including impacts on deforestation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Also focuses on the impacts of increased cultivation for biofuel production. This …
This study investigates the impact of different soil and water conservation technologies on the variance of crop production in Ethiopia to determine the risk implications of the different technologies in different regions and rainfall zones. Awareness of climate change and global warming has dramatically increased among scientists, policymakers, and the …
GLACIAL meltdown, global warming, devastating floods, soil erosion, rise in the sea level, salinity, waterlogging, famine, and heavy rainfall are the direct catastrophic consequences of deforestation. It is estimated that Himalayan glaciers are receding by 30 to 50 metres a year and in another 50 years they could be gone …
The Puthimari embankments on both the banks have a number of vulnerable points and if immediate steps are not taken to strengthen the embankments at these points, the river may cause more devastation for the localities situated along its banks in the coming days. This was the apprehension expressed by …
BEHRAMPORE: A major share of the MPLAD funds allotted for Murshidabad MP, Mr Abdul Mannan Hossain, was used to construct metal and concrete roads both in rural and urban areas of his constituency. Mr Hossain claimed that never in the history of Murshidabad, could any parliamentarian from his constituency could …
The tsunami of December 26, 2004, devastated many coastal areas in Sri Lanka. Curiously, the tsunami spared several areas which had mangroves - dense forests of salt-resistant trees and shrubs that grow in brackish, low-lying coastal swamps in the tropics and subtropics. This clearly manifested in Bangladesh, which recorded very …
His family left Manila when Buencamino "Boy" Talabucon was only three years old to settle in Davao del Sur. They were poor and so after graduating from high school, he started working by driving a passenger's vehicle. After more than a decade of driving daily for twelve hours along bumpy …
Sushanta Talukdar A view of the Balijan Tea estate eroded by the Brahmaputra in Rohmoria village in Dibrugarh district of Assam. Over the past 20 years, the river has eaten into paddy fields, homes, schools and plantations in the 38 villages of Rohmoria under the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency. And …
