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 …
Located deep in the Dudhwa National Tiger Reserve, barely 10 km west of the Gauri-Phanta checkpost along the India-Nepal border, Nijhota village has little relevance on the political map of Uttar Pradesh. The last village on Indian soil along the international borders, Nijhota has seen little political activity this poll …
Panaji : Goa's mussel shellfish, a regular part of the state's cuisine, has got a fresh lease of life after the Indian Council for Agricultural Research embarked on a project to arrest the rapid decline of the species. Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of …
BALASORE: A century-old canal between Odisha and West Bengal has become a major poll issue in Balasore parliamentary constituency. Leading political parties have promised to revive the 221-km long Coast Canal, which would provide a boost to irrigation, flood control and pisciculture in the district. "The canal is a national …
The Apex council with Union Minister of Water Resources as Chairperson and the Chief Ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh as members to resolve river water disputes between the two States will not protect the interests of downstream State farmers, according to Farmers’ Federation (AP) president and former AP Drainage …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Sarang Yadwadkar & Ors. Vs. Commissioner Pune Municipal Corporation & Ors. dated 16/04/2014 regarding dumping of debris and other materials and/or construction on the river bank and causing pollution and changing the course of the river …
In an historic action that will protect people's health and the environment, and benefit riverfront communities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan to remove 4.3 million cubic yards of highly contaminated sediment from the lower eight miles of the Passaic River in New Jersey. The sediment in the …
Cherupuzha River has claimed the lives of innocents, including children. But the river itself is a victim of indiscriminate sand mining. Years of illegal sand mining has led to the formation of deep underwater pits on the river bed, covered flimsily by underwater rocks, giving a false sense of security …
Water level in the Tamakoshi River has gone down significantly of late. The river, which was double its depth 10 years ago, has shrunk rapidly. District stakeholders attributed the unexpected decline in the water level to climate change. According to local fishermen, people can easily cross the river nowadays. Ramesh …
Finally, the state environment department has woken up to rivers falling prey to pollution. It has announced a state river conservation plan (SRCP) on the lines of national river conservation plan (NRCP). Villages and towns with population of over 15,000 and situated on banks of a river will be covered …
The four major rivers — Jamuna, Ganges, Padma and Meghna — may grab around 3,700 hectares of land leaving 36,680 people landless and homeless this year. A prediction report of Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) said 485 hectares of settlement, 5.6 kilometers (km) of active embankment and …
The Kerala Paristhithi Aikyavedi, an umbrella organisation of different environmental groups, has urged voters to take a strict stand against those who showed a callous attitude towards the protection of environment and compromised on important issues, including the protection of drinking water, paddy fields, and ecologically sensitive areas, in the …
The London Assembly Environment Committee has today called for more impetus on sustainable drainage and river restoration to reduce flood risk. The Committee says that focusing on these initiatives will create space for flood waters to be held higher in the river catchment and soak back into the ground. It …
Even as candidates belonging to major national parties woo voters with last minute promises of all-round development, issues related to wildlife, environment and animal welfare are not on agenda. Abhishek Kadyan, media adviser of International Organization for Animal Protection (OIPA), an international confederation of associations for animal protection, said Article …
Katlabodi tigress and her three sub-adult cubs seem to be under severe threat from brick kilns on the edge of reserve forest areas in Kalmeshwar range, 35km from Nagpur. The Katlabodi tigress was rescued by forest officials from a well in Bandhara, 40km from Nagpur, on February 7, 2011 and …
In a significant development on the second day of hearing, the Mhadei Water Dispute Tribunal, New Delhi, has asked Karnataka whether it can pass an order to plug the outlets to prevent the flow of water from the River Mhadei into Malaprabha till the dispute matter is heard. It was …
Nearly 75 per cent of the Centre-sponsored drinking water schemes in J&K; are still incomplete, exposing the inefficiency of the state government to spend the central funds received in the last four years. As per records, out of the 2,107 schemes taken up between 2009 and 2013 under the National …
Rivers provide critical water supply for many human societies and ecosystems, yet global knowledge of their flow rates is poor. We show that useful estimates of absolute river discharge (in cubic meters per second) may be derived solely from satellite images, with no ground-based or a priori information whatsoever. The …
Models for river avulsions have identified the ratio between down-valley and cross-valley slopes of channels as the triggering factors for the sudden channel shift but have remained untested in the field. The August 2008 avulsion of the Kosi River at Kusaha, 12 km upstream of the Kosi barrage in Nepal, …
Elections come and go. But the situation of the flood affected people who have lost their land and properties to the yearly floods of the state remain unchanged. As per a latest estimate by the Water Resource Department of the state, a total of 4.25 lakh people have been living …
The Congress has tried to make a virtue of the inevitable by packaging the Supreme Court’s orders for setting up a national environment regulator as a commitment in its Lok Sabha election manifesto released on Wednesday. The party promises to bring in “a Bill to set up a National Environmental …
