Reply affidavit on behalf of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Gavhan Koliwada Matsyavyavsayik Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit Vs City & Industrial Development Corporation & Others dated 28/01/2025. City & Industrial Development Corporation submitted a proposal for CRZ clearance for the construction of coastal road from …
Relying on information on Uganda’s mining cadastre, the report states that the Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines (DGSM) has granted several mining exploration licenses in protected areas A new report by Global Witness, an international NGO, has raised a red flag over mining licenses inside and near the protected …
SHIMLA: In the name of development hydro power projects are spelling doom in tribal districts of Himachal Pradesh. While local residents and green activists oppose these projects, the government plans to launch slew of projects across state to harness the vast untapped hydro power potential. Those opposing these projects argue …
There are strong indications that the cleanup of over 2,500 contaminated sites in Nigeria's oil producing areas would cost the federal government and other stakeholders over $50 billion. A breakdown showed that it would cost $6 billion to cleanup Ogoniland alone while other parts of the Niger Delta would gulp …
Pune: Students who love nature have an opportunity to pursue it as a career. Courses in biodiversity will provide them not only an inquisitive scientific approach, but also a profession. At Abasaheb Garware College's biodiversity department, a masters in science in biodiversity is a unique course, the only one of …
Zaka — The anti-riot police was on Sunday deployed to Panganai Business Centre in Zaka district under Chief Nhema to disperse thousands of illegal gold miners who invaded the area last week. The development comes as villagers reportedly discovered gold deposits, a move which triggered the mass exodus of illegal …
French oil and gas company Total and other energy majors should abandon plans to drill close to the mouth of Brazil's Amazon because of potential risks to the ecosystem of the area, environmental campaigner Greenpeace said on Wednesday. Greenpeace said an analysis of Total's environmental assessment of its planned drilling, …
DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Tanzania is now facing alarming environmental destruction caused by haphazard felling of trees, a senior official said on Sunday. “Almost every Tanzanian is using one cubic meter of firewood or logs as daily energy source which is equivalent to more than 50 cubic meters …
Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan today emphasised that there was a need to halt the loss of biodiversity and said the stress imposed by tourism activities may aggravate its depletion. On the International Day for Biodiversity today, Vardhan who took charge of the environment ministry said there was a need to …
Marred by delays and CAG audit for cost overruns, the cost of the 111-MW Sawra-Kuddu power project on the Pabbar in the Jubbal valley has shot up more than 28 per cent as the project is running almost five years behind schedule. The HPCL has set December 2018 as the …
Kolkata: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday directed the state pollution control board to carry out surprise checks on cruise vessels operating in the Sunderbans to find out whether they discharge waste in the ecologically fragile zone. The NGT had taken up the issue of environmental degradation in the …
The expert committee “admitted in the report that it did not know the condition of the site before the event” The Art of Living (AOL) Foundation Monday told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it is important to come to a “definite conclusion” on the state of the site prior …
ERA/FoEN in its field report released yesterday was sequel to the return of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to oil spillage sites in Edagberi/Betterland Community in Ahoada-West local government area of Rivers State. The report signed by ERA’s Bayelsa State Coordinator, Alagoa Morris noted that Shell returned to site about …
IDUKKI: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Forest, chaired by former minister Renuka Chaudhary, on Wednesday took a direct account of the impact of deforestation and excessive construction activities on the ecology of Munnar. The committee members also interacted with representatives of NGOs and civil society and collected details …
Lagos, Yenagoa and Abuja — The coastal community of Ikebiri in Southern Ijaw Local Council Area of Bayelsa State has taken ENI, the parent company of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to an Italian court seeking compensation for oil spill. The Head of Legal Resources at Environmental Rights Action/Friends of …
Research released last month suggested that the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and oil spill caused $17.2 billion in damages to the Gulf of Mexico’s natural resources — and a slew of other recent studies provide even more detail on just how severe those impacts were for many of the protected …
Several communities that once lined Liberia’s coast are now under the Atlantic Ocean and the country risks losing more communities, infrastructures and key landmarks to the sea, if nothing is immediately done to curb sea erosion. Except for a few coastal communities occupied by some of the country’s elites, most …
As part of its plans to ease coastal rules in the country, the Ministry of Environment has proposed to lift restrictions on real estate development that will ease FSI regulations, relax the extent of no-development zones and also permit the construction of public amenities, ministry documents revealed. The documents were …
DEHRADUN: A number of ecologically conscious residents in the city are now taking up healthier alternatives to plastic like edible spoons made of millets and tableware made out of sugarcane waste. The availability of these products has also brightened the chances of the ban on plastic being properly implemented since …
SHIMLA: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has given Himachal Pradesh government a last opportunity to file report on carrying capacity of the hills in Shimla by May 4 The government has failed to submit it even after repeated orders from the tribunal bench although an expert committee to study the ecology …
Serves notice on Idukki Collector The National Green Tribunal has taken suo motu case on the environmental and ecological damage in Munnar. Based on media reports, the Chennai bench of the tribunal sent a notice on Wednesday to the chiefs of the Forest and Pollution departments and the Idukki Collector …
