Order of the Bombay High Court in the matter of Adani Cementation Limited Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/03/2025. Adani Cementation Limited approached the Bombay High Court seeking issuance of an order directing the respondents/ authorities to permit the petitioner to carry out the work of construction of …
Reefs, mangrove forests and inland wetlands in arid regions can play a very cost-effective role in attenuating the impacts of extreme weather events such as the impacts of hurricanes and cyclones, extremes in precipitation and increases in evaporation due to higher temperatures. Inland wetlands can reduce extremes in runoff from …
GEER to host national-level workshop on mangrove conservation TIMES NEWS NETWORK Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) will host a fiveday national-level training workshop on
M Subramanian KOCHI: Gardening turns expensive at places where there is an acute shortage of good unpolluted water. In a city like Kochi most of the plots were reclaimed in the past few decades, before that they were uncultivated with marshy plants all over. The soil in such places is …
The eco-tourism project being launched by Pappinissery Eco-Tourism Society in the mangrove-rich areas on the banks of the Valapattanam River is in the centre of a controversy in the wake of allegations that the Society is encroaching river bank in the guise of developing it into an eco-tourism spot. The …
India has a long coastal line of over 7500 km supporting vast habitats such as lagoons, backwaters, estuaries, coral reefs and mangrove swamps. Among them, the mangrove ecosystem commands the highest importance because of its biological productivity and specialized diversity. After coral reefs, mangrove forests have the highest productivity among …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is a scene of absolute destruction. Acres and acres of tree stumps that look as if ravaged by a massive fire. Just across the road, there is a similar scene with dead, black trees with patches of an unhealthy green at the centre. Migratory birds sit atop the …
Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade.
Normal Central Assistance and Additional Central Assistance (ACA) are devolved by the Planning Commission to assist the State Governments in specific areas. The present paper details an incentive mechanism for preventing deforestation and promoting conservation of forest ecosystems. A number of options to provide support to the states with vast …
Kolkata: The World Wide Fund for Nature has warned that days are numbered for much of the sensitive Sunderbans eco-system and in 60 years, vast tracts of the mangroves, home to the Bengal tiger, will go under sea. The study, focussed on Sunderbans in Bangladesh, says the sea is rising …
Mumbai: Admitting that their income through land sale in Bandra-Kurla Complex has suffered a jolt due to recession, the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) presented a Rs6,143-crore budget for the financial year 2010-11 on Tuesday. Besides a human development programme for the metropolitan region and development of the Gorai-Manori …
Vegetated coastal ecosystems provide goods and services to billions of people. In the aftermath of a series of recent natural disasters, including the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Nargis, coastal vegetation has been widely promoted for the purpose of reducing the impact of large storm surges and tsunami. …
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday appointed a three-member expert committee to study the tidal movement of the Mithi river after construction of a 300-metre long wall on the Vakola Nalla. The committee, which has been told to submit a report in four week, will also look at the …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday, in an important order, banned "non-forest activities" in mangrove areas along the state's coast. A division bench of Justice J N Patel and Justice B R Gavai ruled that its directive would hold irrespective of whether the government had notified a mangrove plot …
Mumbai The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said that no non-forest activity can be permitted in the areas where mangroves grow, even if such areas have not been yet declared as
RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY A scientist in the Institute of Life Science (ILS) here, a research body functioning under department of biotechnology, government of India, on Monday claimed to have discovered that the extract of mangrove plants can cure breast cancer. ILS sources said this would prove to be a major …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has sought enhanced grants from the Thirteenth Finance Commission (TFC) for heritage conservation and development of tourist infrastructure in Orissa as tourism has become one of the major sources of employment generation. In its memorandum submitted to the TFC, the State Government has demanded Rs 156 …
