Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The severely degraded river systems will be reverted to their past grandeur whatever the cost, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, declared on Friday. She pledged assistance of her administration to multidimensional researches into modes of combating environmental disasters. In the same breath, the prime minister urged Bangladeshis to prepare to …
Athar Parvaiz : The already exist ing disputes between India and Pakistan over water-sharing are expected to exasperate further given the forecast that the impact of climatic changes, due to environmental degradation, would cause drastic depletion in volume of water in the Indus River system originating from Himalayan glaciers. Himalayan …
Advocate Mostafizur Rahman, State Minister of Environment and Forest Ministry held legal complexity and weak manpower responsible for improper action against man made pollution to environment. He said this yesterday while addressing a press conference on World Environment Day scheduled to be observed today. The motto of this year's environment …
Many helpless families, all too frequently battered by destructive cyclones, subsequent tidal surges and constant river erosion, are abandoning their ancestral homes and livelihoods and increasing the number of environmental refugees in the country. Erratic changes in climatic conditions, rising frequency of cyclones, increased river erosion and failure to rehabilitate …
June 4: The AP High Court on Thursday warned it will take action on officials of the mines and geology department who conducted public auction of the sand reaches in the Penna River without obtaining a ground water feasibility report. Dealing with a public interest litigation, a division bench comprising …
Expressing grave concerns over the rampant environmental degradation in the country, environmental experts have said that Pakistan, especially Sindh, is facing an environmental disaster. A survey carried out prior to the World Environment Day (WED) has revealed that due to the decreasing water flow in downstream Kotri Barrage, seawater has …
Indian defence scientists have found that temperature in the North-Western Himalayan range, spread over Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh and the source of most of Indus line rivers and their tributaries, have risen by nearly 1.4 degrees Celsius over the last 100 years. The average level of warming for …
Brazil approved on Wednesday an environmental permit for a hydroelectric dam in the Amazon, an official said on Wednesday, advancing a project the government hopes will shore up power supplies but critics call an ecological disaster. The environmental agency Ibama granted a consortium including the French utilities giant Suez the …
Construction Debris Chokes Glacial River D S Kunwar | TNN Nainital: What price electricity? Alaknanda, the majestic glacial river from the high Himalayas that gives Bhagirathi its immense volume and turns it into the Ganga, is drying up in large swathes (from six to 26 km) even before it meets …
Paribesh Bachao Andolan (PBA) yesterday urged the government to form a high-powered commission to save rivers from encroachment and pollution and to increase navigability across the country. The demand rose at a PBA sit-in programme in front of Krishi Bank Bhaban in Motijheel. They also formed a human chain as …
For years, the residents of the slums along Manila's Zapote River have cursed the water lilies that clog up the waterway and cause flooding. Now, thanks to a handicraft project, they can't get enough of them. The lilies, which feed on the garbage that is dumped daily in the river, …
Pakistan on Monday took up water compensation issue with India for the loss of about 200,000 cusecs of water India had stopped last year for filling the newly built Baglihar Dam on Chenab River in occupied Kashmir. Pakistan discussed the issue and expressed its concern on the second day of …
Their intervention is timely. Powerful commercial interests, including developers and big farming groups, have been pressuring Congress to keep things the way they are. For nearly three decades, the Clean Water Act was broadly interpreted by the courts and federal regulators as shielding all the waters of the United States
This report is divided into four main components. Section 1 summarizes the history and status of major water disputes between India and three of its neighbors, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Section 2 forecasts trends in water demand by analyzing expected growth patterns in domestic, agricultural and industrial use. It also …
The government is going to prepare a master plan to increase the country's forest coverage up to 20 percent in next six years, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday while inaugurating the three-month countrywide 'National Afforestation Movement'. The government is working on the plan to increase the forest coverage by …
Environmentalists on Sunday called on the government to form a high-powered committee to take effective measures to save the rivers of the country after identifying their problems. They made the call while addressing a briefing organised by Paribesh Banchao Andolan in association with Janauddyog, Unyanadhara Trust and CLNB at Dhaka …
An assessment of the water quality of Mahanadi and its distributary rivers and streams, Atharabanki river and Taldanda Canal adjoining Paradip was studied in three different seasons namely summer, premonsoon and winter. Four parameters namely pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Biochemical Oxygen Demand and Fecal Coliform were considered to compute Water Quality …
