Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
Water experts from three countries along the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin underscored the need for immediate implementation of the Sapta Koshi High Dam Project, a multi purpose hydroelectric and flood control scheme located at eastern Nepal, under consideration since 1946.
Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar on Thursday said the construction of Sardar Sarovar dam was "illegal" as conditional clearance given on it by the environment ministry had already lapsed in 1989.
Three Central African nations have teamed up to protect a vast tract of rainforest in the heart of the world's second largest equatorial ecosystem.On 8 December, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic agreed to create the Sangha Park, the first transborder protected area in Central Africa, …
The Lok Sabha's committee on petitions has accused the Centre and the Maharashtra government for not showing interest in preserving and maintaining Mumbai's oldest lake, the Powai lake, which has provided drinking water to citizens for almost a century.
The mild tremors, which rocked Kerala and adjoining Tamil Nadu, with a moderate intensity of 5 on the Richter scale, with its epicentre in Idukki district, has put a question mark on the contentious issue of restoring the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam.
mature forests have more potential for gobbling up carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) than young ones. This was revealed in a study conducted by Ernst-Detlef Schulze, director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, along with his colleagues. Huge amounts of carbon are trapped in tree …
The inter-state Krishna river dispute is set to resurface as the Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh government on an application filed by Karnataka on the use of surplus water.
The World Commission on Dams (WCD) has published its final report claiming that the process has pioneered a new path for global public policy making on issues of suitable and sustainable development. However, the Commission deliberately chose data to prove its preconceived hypothesis against dams completely ignoring the compulsions of …
The eminent environmentalist and founder of Chipko Andolan, Mr.Sunder Lal Bahuguna has exhorted farmers in Haryana to practice 'tree-farming apart from their traditional cultivation.
The Irrigation Department has torpedoed a Central scheme for regulating use of ground water in Assam not so much by raising objections to the scheme but by sheer inaction and criminal negligence, particularly on the part of its secretary and other senior officials of the department,thereby depriving the people of …
In pursuance of the decision of the Provincial Transition Team, management of about 423 plantations covering an area of 2,000 acres of Forest Department have been handed over to district governments in Pakistan.
Residents of about 12 villages in and around Thiruneemalai area are worried over the increased encroachments in the Veeraraghava Perumal Lake, main source of water supply. Located in Chromepet, the lake also serves as a water source for the residents of New Colony and a few other residential area.
Following apparent failure of rain water harvesting facilities installed in the city parks earlier this year, the Corporation has begun a comprehensive drive to instal these facilities in all its buildings.
The Central Government has directed the Madhya Pradesh Government to complete its marking of forest areas within five years as Chhattisgarh has agreed to do. This will help in solving the long pending problem of forest areas as regards giving pattas to Vanvasi families.
Around 50 per cent of Beijing will be covered with trees in the next five to 10 years to improve the environment, according to the forestry administration in the capital. To reach the goal, the Beijing municipal government will plant thousands of trees in three major rural areas around the …
The Centre will sanction 28 forest development agencies in the current financial year for the development of degraded forests in Jammu and Kashmir, minister for forests, Peerzada Ghulam Ahmed Shah, said here on Sunday. A sum of Rs 1 crore will be provided to each development agency, Mr Shah said …
The Mirik Lake will soon have a "new" look thanks to the initiative of West Bengal Municipal Affairs Minister. A project for the lake's revival has been taken up and it was decided at a meeting in Mirik on 10 August that the Gorkha Hill Council will implement it.
Delhi does not get enough of Compressed Natural Gas, what about Mumbai? Well, the city where Bombay High burns brightly does have a huge allocation of natural gas-at least on paper. But the actual supply is reportedly at levels which, if the CNG fleet registers a rapid increase, could leave …
With fifteen reserve forests spread over 55,521 hectares, the Digboi Forest Division is one of the larger forest segments in the state. A shortage of forest guards and a general apathy by the forest administrators has of late resulted in wide scale timber smuggling in several reserve forests in the …
