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 …
VADODARA: The Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited popularly known as Amul Dairy has been conferred the Golden Peacock Award for ecologically innovation and sustainable energy conservation. The award recognizes Amul Dairy's efforts in establishing sustainable energy management system adopted in recovery of methane gas from the dairy effluents, …
Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa has announced the District Development Committee (DDC), Chitwan, as environment-friendly office. Also the Minister for Federal Affairs and Local Development, Thapa announced this by unveiling the statue of "Chitwan Aama' installed in the DDC premises and planting a sapling of red sandalwood. On the occasion, …
Climate change and El Niño have caused the worst mangrove die-off in recorded history, stretching along 700km of Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria, an expert says. The mass die-off coincided with the world’s worst global coral bleaching event, as well as the worst bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef, in …
Last year, Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia signed a declaration of principles on the dam project that tacitly approves the dam construction but calls for technical studies aimed at safeguarding the water quotas of the three riparian states. On September 22, 2014, a tripartite committee from the three countries proposed the …
Noted urban planning experts Vikram Soni and Romi Khosla have asked the Andhra Pradesh government to push the seed capital inland and not build it on the floodplain of Krishna River in accordance with the Master Plan prepared by a Singapore based company. Theoretical Physicist and Delhi Jal Board Advisor …
Plastic waste found on the beach at Sarstangen on Prince Carls Forland, on the west coast of Svalbard, Norway. Plastic dumped into the seas around the UK is carried to the Arctic within two years, scientists have revealed, where it does “extreme harm” to the fragile polar environment. Marine plastic …
NEW DELHI: There are almost 400 cases of green violations across the country where companies cannot be penalised for going ahead with their construction and expansion work without getting prior environmental clearance just because there is no process in place to deal with them. The environment ministry is facing this …
The plea, filed through advocate Siddhartha Singh, sought stringent action against erring officials responsible for causing loss of the green cover and air pollution in Jawahar Bagh, which was rocked by violence on June 2. The National Green Tribunal has sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response on a plea alleging …
Forest department has planted 13 lakh saplings and other departments 7 lakh With shortage of manpower, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) garden department, entrusted with the responsibility of implementing the tree plantation drive undertaken by the state government, urged the other civic departments to pitch in to achieve its target …
PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Sunday mooted the idea of converting exhausted mining pits into environmental projects. "The deserted (exhausted) mining pits should be converted into hospitality or environmental projects (and) then we will be able to balance the environment," he told reporters here. The Chief Minister planted …
The State government will go ahead with the development project planned for Chamundi Hills by keeping environmental concerns in mind, said Minister for Public Works H.C. Mahadevappa. Addressing a press conference here, the first after taking over as Minister in charge of the district, he said he too was in …
One of the biggest environmental disasters to hit Vietnam was caused by a unit of a Taiwanese conglomerate leaking toxic waste into the sea, the Hanoi government said on Thursday, ending months of mystery and rare public outrage. Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, a subsidiary of Formosa Plastics, has promised $500 …
The head of Peru state-owned energy company Petroperu has resigned following the third oil spill this year due to pipeline ruptures, Energy and Mines Minister Rosa Maria Ortiz said on Thursday on local broadcaster RPP. The latest rupture detected in the four-decades-old pipeline that Petroperu operates was detected in the …
BHP Billiton (BHP.AX) (BLT.L) on Friday said it would appeal against the decision by a Brazilian court to reinstate a $6 billion public civil claim over last year's Samarco iron ore mine disaster. BHP and 50-50 joint-venture partner Vale had agreed on a $2.3 billion settlement in March, but Brazil's …
RIO DE JANEIRO – Selective logging, road building and fires are threatening biodiversity in Brazil’s Amazon despite a requirement that rural landowners maintain at least 80 percent of their forest cover in the world’s largest rain forest, researchers said on Wednesday. In 2012, Brazil enacted a law to protect forests …
Addition of four satellite core areas, 8000 hectares of extra buffer area adjacent to the Panna Tiger Reserve, a possible reduction in the height of the Daudhan dam and an environment management plan of Rs.5073 crore are the chief mitigation plans the union environment ministry has put forth in the …
The long-finned, tiger-striped lionfish may be one of the most stunning swimmers in the sea — but it’s also becoming one of the most problematic. Originally a native of the Indo-Pacific ocean region, this predatory tropical fish has already invaded the southern Atlantic coast of the U.S., the Gulf of …
Shailesh Nayak committee report may unlock real-estate boom, but at the cost of environment The Shailesh Nayak committee, that was asked to review Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification - 2011, has recommended a host of dilutions and relaxations in the coastal protection legislation in its report submitted last year. The …
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A proposed dam in the heart of the Amazon will lead to a wave of deforestation as remote areas of the world's largest rainforest are opened to agriculture, said a study from Brazilian researchers published on Tuesday. Local businesses with contracts to help …
Washington, DC-- It turns out that forests in the Andean and western Amazonian regions of South America break long-understood rules about how ecosystems are put together, according to new research led by Carnegie's Greg Asner and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Their findings could help …
