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 …
Lalit Mohan The World Council for Corporate Governance is organising the Global Convention on Climate Security from June 12 to 14 at Palampur. Experts from across the globe would ponder on why the climate crunch is more catastrophic than credit crunch. The other major topic would be as to how …
All are equally responsible to protect the earth MITIGATE GLOBAL WARMING: V. Carmelus, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Southern Railway, watering a sapling after planting it inside the Golden Rock Railway Workshop in Tiruchi on Tuesday TIRUCHI: Environment protection is not merely the concern of the government alone. All sections of the …
Hyderabad, June 7 A Central legislation will be enacted soon to pave way for the establishment of an independent environmental protection authority to ensure effective implementation of the Environment Protection Act, according to Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests. Addressing a press conference here, Mr Ramesh said this …
A month-long programme on environment protection was inaugurated at Western Institute of Technology (WIT) as part of the World Environment Day here on Friday. Rev Fr Micheal Santhumayor inaugurated the event at the institute premises. He said planting of saplings, using plastic in a proper way, saving water would help …
Deputy Commissioner V Ponnuraj said the environmentalists should introspect as how far they are true environmentalists both in principles and practice. Addressing the World Environment Day celebrations organised by Mangalore Special Economic Zone and the Department of Environment and Ecology at SDM Law College here on Friday, he said just …
P M Raghunandan, Bangalore, DH News Service: The State Government has at last woken up to the widespread damage mining and quarrying activities are causing to the environment. The Government has imposed the
Ahmedabad : Reduce, reuse and recycle plastic a group of more than 15 youngsters armed with placards and posters, conducted a rally on CG road to promote this thought on Tuesday. With World Environment Day round the corner, the idea was to spread awareness about the use of plastic among …
Environment Minister Says Finance Ministry Report Insensitive To Ecological Concerns New Delhi: Rejecting the secret finance ministry report recommending dilution of environmental clearance process and calling it insensitive to ecological concerns, environment minister Jairam Ramesh told TOI that he was not in favour of tinkering with existing norms but would …
Industries minister Nirupam Sen today expressed hope that the Manmohan Singh government would not go back on its earlier cabinet approval for the chemical hub at Nayachar.
New Delhi: Her new ministerial responsibilities have not dampened her agitational spirit. Even as new ministers were taking oath on Thursday, a vintage Mamata told TOI that come hell or high water, she would not allow the proposed chemicals hub to come up in Nayachar in West Bengal.
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi May 28, 2009, 0:58 IST A secret report aims to make environmental clearance a standardised exercise that bypasses critical requirements. Environmental safeguards, whittled down as they are, are coming under strain once again as the government attempts to fast-track statutory clearances for industrial and infrastructure …
YUSUF JAMEEL April 22: At least four Kashmiri Muslims have been taken on the newly-constituted advisory committee on annual Amarnath pilgrimage. Also, there are seven other local Muslim government functionaries who will be serving as members in the 13-member committee in their official capacity. The pilgrimage to the 12,729-foot-high cave …
U.S.-based ecologist Beth Middleton delivers Earth Day lecture Beth Middleton CHENNAI: You can tend a garden, recycle materials and ride a bicycle more often than driving a car to contribute, in a personal way, to the cause of Planet Earth, which is imperilled by climate change, Beth Middleton, research ecologist …
The world is celebrating Earth Day on April 22. This celebration has to turn into a clarion call to spread awareness about the dry spots that have appeared on the erstwhile green horizons. Be it mercury, Co2, sulphur, monoxides or dioxides, they have all encircled our lives through emissions from …
By Fred Pearce, The Guardian Overpopulation is not driving environmental destruction; overconsumption is, argues Fred Pearce. It is hubris to downgrade the culpability of the rich world
CHANDIGARH: The fallout of global warming, population explosion and pollution could only be countered through a massive public awareness campaign that ensures only those projects which meet the needs of the common public and not just generate profits for large corporate houses. Holding out the solution for what he referred …
Observing that the annual yatra inflow to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine is likely to touch 10 million mark in the next few years, Governor NN Vohra has called for evolving best possible approaches for providing improved facilities to the pilgrims. Chairing the first meeting of the reconstituted Shri Mata …
