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 …
Jayati Ghosh MANY PEOPLE in the developing world still perceive the discussions around climate change as one more imperialist attempt by developed countries to prevent growth of incomes in their own countries and achievement of decent living standards for the poor. While denial of this sort may be derided, such …
LUCKNOW: Reducing carbon emissions, planting trees and switching over to alternate sources of energy are the means for environmental conservation. "Efforts to save environment have begun,'' said Rasik Ravindra, director, National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, ministry of earth sciences, GoI. Several scientists from national research institutes and professors …
Bangalore: A green Bench: this could well be a first in the legal history of the country. Providing legal space for green concerns, the Karnataka high court, in a notification on Thursday (February 19), announced the setting up of the Bench to exclusively deal with environmental issues. The high court …
New Delhi, Feb. 20: The Union cabinet is likely to clear the Nayachar project next week, but only about a fifth of the 250sqkm chemical hub will be located on the island. The rest will be carved out of the existing industrial zone on mainland Haldia. Chemicals and fertilisers minister …
TIRUNELVELI: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) conducted an awareness programme on environment for bankers, NGOs and farmers recently at Tenkasi to sensitise the stakeholders on environmental degradation and the strategies to mitigate the danger. In his inaugural address, Revenue Divisional Officer of Tenkasi, N. Shanmuganathan, stressed …
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is organizing a summit meeting on climate change next month where he hopes President Barack Obama will confirm a "sea change" in US environment policy, diplomats said. Several national diplomats and UN officials said they were aware of Ban's plan to invite Obama …
Chandan Mitra Elections will soon drown out all other concerns in India. We will hear endless promises to create incredible numbers of new jobs, populist schemes to provide free power and almost free rice and wheat. What will not find mention in the poll promises, nor will be addressed post-poll …
BY YUSUF JAMEEL SRINAGAR A recent decision of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) to set up a high-profile panel for ensuring the preservation of environment along the route to the 12, 729-foothigh cave-shrine in Kashmiri Himalayas has been widely welcomed by conservationists in Jammu and Kashmir.
Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Patali Champika Ranawaka yesterday said that Sri Lanka should endeavor to create one million green jobs in the next six years in view of slowing down of the world economy while making the country more eco-friendly in the process. Minister Ranawaka made these remarks …
Special Correspondent CHENNAI: Over-exploitation of natural resources will lead to problems for humanity, according to C.K. Sreedharan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests. Speaking at the
Ashwani Sharma Posted: Jan 09, 2009 at 0014 hrs IST Shimla: Flash floods, dry spells, melting glaciers, rising temperature, withering crops. All the signs are there. The global climate change is making an impact on Himachal Pradesh, a state that has always been noted for its environmental consciousness. Only last …
Environment Protection played a major role long before CEA Stanley Seneviratne Kurunegala North group corr. Although the World Environment is not mentioned in Local Government enactments, Local Authorities in Sri Lanka, were playing an important role in the management and protection of the environment, long before Central Environmental Authority was …
Staff Reporter Chennai: A five-kilometre walk along the Marina beach was organised by the Coast Guard on Sunday to promote awareness of environmental protection. The walkathon is organised every year prior to the Coast Guard Raising Day that falls on February 1. About 2,000 people including Coast Guard, Army, Navy …
The Himachal Government will soon formulate an environment master plan to effectively address sensitive ecological issues and pave the way for sustainable economic development in the fragile hill environment. Stating this while delivering his presidential address at the Interactive Meet on Governance, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said Himachal Pradesh …
Vulnerability and Environmental Security are fast emerging as frontline research areas in the realm of global change and earth system science in a world driven mainly by globalisation and climate change. It is worthwhile to consider some basic concepts of vulnerability literature before embarking on to explore the sources and …
Exactly four years ago, on Dec 26, 2004, more than 12,000 people were killed in the deadly tsunami that devastated parts of Tamil Nadu and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Despite the destruction it left in its wake, environmental awareness is at its nadir in our country, and global warming …
Water-man Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal and his followers have decided to approach various political parties and motivate them to include environment of Punjab as a part of their election manifesto in the forthcoming Lok Sabha (LS) elections. Sant Seechewal, who was here to preside over an NCC function of a …
Clearing the air over the seismic survey on the Brahmaputra riverbed, the Multi Disciplinary Advisory Group (MDAG), constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for providing guidance on seismic survey, today clarified that Oil India Limited (OIL) had not been allowed to carry out any survey.
