The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Prem Kumar Dhumal Government in Himachal Pradesh has launched a United Nations-aided project under which carbon emissions will be reduced by 40,000 tonnes per year for two decades. This initiative is claimed to be bigger than a similar project in China. The Himachal project is registered for carbon credits …
PUNE: Activist Anna Hazare catapulted into national stardom following his relentless pursuit of the Lokpal Bill, but the unassuming dhoti-clad social worker has been a star in his state, and village, for a long time now. Fifty-year-old Maruti Auti recalls the days when villagers in Ahmednagar's Ralegan Siddhi, 80 km …
Rs. 6 crore allotted for development projects DINDIGUL: Farmers in Sirumalai will soon get permanent irrigation sources to protect standing horticulture crops and tribals sustainable income generation activities, thanks to entry level activities and other development programmes being implemented under Integrated Water Shed Management Programme by the Department of Agriculture …
BHUBANESWAR: The Government has set an ambitious target to improve the condition of 10 lakh hectares of agricultural land through watershed management programmes for sustainable livelihood in rainfed areas. The target will be achieved in next five years. The Government claimed to have taken drought-proofing measures over an area of …
It’s afternoon and wisps of clouds have already enveloped the Sora Muni shrine that keeps watch over Sri Lanka’s Horton Plains massif. Here, Tamil workers of the Thotulagalla tea estate in Haputale offer a sacrificial goat to the deity following the annual pruning of tea bushes. It is ironic to …
Shimla: The Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project will be extended to 102 more panchayats with the World Bank (WB) agreeing in principle to provide $45 million to cover the areas left out at the micro-watershed level and consolidation of the first phase to improve sustainability. The proposal for the extension of …
This new report released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests provides a holistic overview capturing comprehensively India's policies and programme related to desertification, land degradation & drought. This report provides a holistic overview capturing comprehensively India's policies and programme related to desertification, land degradation and drought. Poverty and environmental …
INDIA’S first pilot project to be recognised under the UN’s mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) could be in the East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya. A watershed project, started jointly by a California-based non-profit and a tribal community in 2005 in the northeastern state aims at checking …
Forest conservation effort in Meghalaya can claim carbon benefits. India’s first pilot project to be recognized under the UN’s mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) could be in the East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya. A watershed project, started jointly by a California-based non-profit and a tribal community …
Sub-watersheds in border areas not to be covered With the Survey of India (SoI) and the Ministry of Defence reluctant to grant permission for the digitisation of restricted maps, the Forest Department has decided to go ahead with the finalisation of integrated catchment area treatment plan for the Sutlej basin …
Wetlands and wetland-dominated ecosystems are disappearing at an unsettling rate right across the country. Initial indications from preliminary screening of watershed conditions suggest that the drying up of mountain springs and apparent changes in the natural flow regimes are closely associated with the loss or reduction in the number or …
Pune is a water-rich city with four dams and three rivers supplying water. However, every year, as the summer sun beats down on the city, the citizens usually face water cuts which make them wake up to the reality of fast-depleting water resources. Rapid urbanisation, concretisation of surfaces, reduction in …
This paper describes the results of a groundwater potentiality and quality assessment conducted in Koduvan Ar sub-watershed of Meenachil river basin, Kottayam district of Kerala state.
Thousands of hectares of land that had been lying idle for years in Tamil Nadu have been made cultivable through major interventions under watershed development project of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). Being implemented in Tamil Nadu since 2001, around 160 watershed development projects are under way …
Burdwan, 9 FEB: US Consul General in Kolkata, Ms Beth A Payne, today visited a watershed project in Burdwan district and praised the women who were associated with the Nabard-funded scheme (see sns photo). Ms Payne visited Bhalki Watershed Project under Ausgram police station and talked to various women who …
District panchayat plans Rs.52-crore worth schemes Rs.10 crore for agriculture development Plan to promote village tourism projects Thrissur: The Thrissur district panchayat will carry out Rs.52 crore-worth development projects this year with a special focus on eco-friendly farming. Development standing committee chairman Anil Akkara said that thrust would be to …
