Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 15/05/2025. The Applicant Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee has filed the application alleging illegal felling of trees over an area of around 5 acres within the …
Desertification involves many countries featuring different ecological, economic, and social conditions. In Mediterranean Europe, high human pressure, economic development, and climatic changes combine to produce land consumption, soil erosion, salinization, and fire risk, all considered as key factors to start desertification processes. For many years the term desertification has been …
Nigeria has a total land area of 983,213 km2 occupied by about 120 Million people: The interaction of these millions of people with their environment has left indelible mark on the landscape. Urbanization, deforestation, desertification, over population and all kinds of pollution are some of the resultant effects of man's …
The eastern Indian state of Orissa will turn to a mass of barren and desert like lands in another 150 years, warned Water Initiatives Orissa (WIO). Many parts of Orissa, specifically the western and southern uplands, have developed symptoms of desertification; they have further degraded from drought prone to desert …
rapid atmospheric warming is causing a widening of the tropical region, according to a team of researchers led by the University of Washington in the us . The scientists analysed satellite data from 1979 to 2005 on temperature over subtropical areas (between 23.5
When the literature of a university symposium begins with "The desert is a European idea', you know it means business. Especially if you come from the non-European universe. The Charles Darwin University (cdu) of Darwin in Australia is embarking into a new territory in its bid to rejuvenate itself, improve …
unnoticed by a world caught up with the politics of the oncoming World Trade Organization summit in Cancun, the sixth conference of parties (cop-6) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (unccd) was held in Havana, Cuba, between August 25 and September 5. The third of the international conventions …
To "save' the city of Beijing, Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji has ordered the killing of at least 300,000 cashmere goats in Inner Mongolia for "destroying the forests and causing degradation'. According to government officials, this is leading to desertification, which is spreading towards Beijing at the rate of more …
the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (unccd) recommended close regional cooperation amongst countries for measures to check desertification during a meeting held in New Delhi recently. Within this framework, the Regional Action Programme for Asia has identified six Thematic Programme Network areas. India will host the Thematic Programme Network …
What causes desertification in impoverished developing nations? Trade policies. The very nations who suffer from desertification are forced to indulge in intensive cultivation of cash crops in order to earn foreign exchange through export and hence lose out on the benefits of growing food crops. South African nations like Somalia, …
traditionally, human beings have been forest-dwellers - cradled in the tropics and surviving on the fruit of the trees. The garden was a clearing in the forest where vegetables were grown. Folklore and legend describe how trouble first came when humans gave up the garden culture and became a herdsfolk. …
environmental degradation and failure of the monsoons has resulted in a famine in places like Kinnakorai and Kundah taluk s (blocks) of the Nilgiris in the Western Ghats. Unfortunately, the reason for this famine is little understood by the people, either due to ignorance or sheer negligence. The Nilgiris are …
The human population in the world has crossed the six billion mark. With this the environmental cost of foodgrain production is rising and this is putting additional pressure on natural resources. Interestingly, though the irrigated area per person has increased, the global grain harvested area* per person is shrinking. This …
National Report on the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (CCD)
An artist's rendition of the Lunar Prospector shows the spacecraft in lunar orbit. The Lunar Prospector hit the moon on July 31, 1999. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, using the Hubble Space Telescope, failed to detect water in the plume created by Prospector 's impact
if the latest findings by scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research are found to hold water, the various views on the desertification of the Sahara may soon be turned upside down. In a research paper, published in the July 15 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, they concluded …
the first Conference of Parties for the Convention to Combat Desertification ( cop-i ) held in Rome from September 29 to October 10, 1997 took decisions on issues such as funding and the venue for a permanent secretariat for the convention. With no additional resources coming from nations of the …
Mistrust, suspicion, North-South divide and a lack of commitment and political will on the part of the nation states to move towards a sustainable future were the key features of the second Earth Summit. Settling for the minimum possible... was the spirit of the negotiating nations. Further, entrenched economic national …
•A review of the five years since Rio, Earth Summit II showed collective irresponsibility by nation states for the earth's future •The special session of the UN General Assembly was marred by nations wrangling to settle for the minimum possible •The biggest disappointment was the decision on climate change. The …
