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 …
HYDERABAD: The urban biodiversity (parks) wing of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has woken up from deep slumber and plans to take up measures in the next financial year to increase the green cover in the city. In the last two years there was not much tree plantation or development of …
The 2015 China Sustainable Cities Report examines the performance of 35 big and medium-sized cities according to 12 human development and environmental indicators. It also looks at the efficiency of the cities’ environmental inputs relative to their human development outputs. Recommendations for decoupling human development from negative environmental impacts to …
The Environmental Justice Atlas or EJAtlas.org is a freely accessible on-line interactive information portal that helps academic scholars and public policymakers across the world in identifying exemplary cases of peoples’ resistance against climate change and environment degradation. EJAtlas.org is conceived by the EJOLT project – an acronym for the ‘Environmental …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of All Dimasa Students Union Dima Hasao Dist. Committee Vs. State of Meghalaya & Ors. dated 23/12/2015 regarding illegal, unscientific, unregulated mining activity being carried on in the state of Meghalaya as well as on transportation of the coal. There shall …
Keri: Volunteers of the Vivekanand environment awareness brigade of Keri-Sattari presented a street play to create environment awareness at a nature orientation camp organized by the extension and mural services of Goa University. Girls students from various educational institutions from Bicholim and Sattari took part in the camp wherein a …
Brazilian government holds the mining giants responsible for one of the nation’s worst ever environmental disasters, and is demanding $5bn A judge has frozen the Brazilian assets of mining giants BHP Billiton and Vale SA after determining their joint venture Samarco was unable to pay for widespread damage caused by …
The fossil record provides striking case studies of biodiversity loss and global ecosystem upheaval. Because of this, many studies have sought to assess the magnitude of the current biodiversity crisis relative to past crises—a task greatly complicated by the need to extrapolate extinction rates. Here we challenge this approach by …
Amnesty International has said Shell could be exposed to a raft of compensation claims and be forced to disclose previously withheld internal documents over its failure to stop and clean up decades of oil pollution in a test case before the Dutch Court of Appeal on Friday. According to a …
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board has shown deep commitment toward conservation and protection of environment and ecology of Trikuta Hills and has taken effective steps to increase the green cover in the area around the Holy Cave Shrine. Governor N N Vohra, who is the Chairman of Shri Mata …
Land court finds mining leases should be granted for Carmichael mine but with tightened environmental conditions Queensland’s land court has dismissed a challenge by conservationists to Adani’s Carmichael mine, Australia’s largest proposed coal project. The land court president, Carmel MacDonald, recommended the state government approve the mine but with extra …
Despite repeated tragedies that clearly illustrate the dangers of haphazard urban development at the cost of the environment -the Chennai floods being the most recent example -the authorities never seem to learn. The Gurgaon administration has asked the state government to leave the Aravali foothills and grasslands in the district …
JAMMU: Divisional Commissioner Jammu Dr. Pawan Kotwal convened a meeting to discuss the action plan for Solid Waste Management in Katra and Jammu. The meeting was attended by CEO SMVDSB Ajeet Kumar Sahu, Commissioner JMC Mandeep Kour, Deputy Commissioner Jammu Simrandeep Singh, Deputy Commissioner Reasi Sushma Chauhan, Director Urban Local …
As part of its efforts to keep the environs in Sabarimala free from plastic, the All India Sabarimala Ayyappa Seva Samajam is launching a campaign in the Andhra Pradesh to educate devotees on the ill-effects of using plastic material. The theme of the campaign is ‘Clean Sabarimala and Green Sabarimala’ …
Seven years ago, Luciana Cunha paid her first visit to the fishing village of Regência, in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo, to surf the famous waves near the mouth of the Rio Doce. She fell in love twice – with the place and her husband, Fabio Gama – and …
As environmentalists continue to protest against hydroelectric projects on rivers across India, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday asked the Centre and all States about their stand on maintaining the minimum necessary downstream flow in the rivers to ensure there is no damage to the aquatic ecology. A Bench …
KOCHI:The Rajya Sabha Committee on Science, Technology, Environment and Forests will hold talks with NGOs, civic organisations and experts at the Government Guest House here on Sunday. “Members of the committee headed by Aswini Kumar MP are already in the city to seek suggestions and opinions of organisations and experts …
Since 1970, China’s terrestrial vertebrates have declined by half, while the nation’s Ecological Footprint has more than doubled, reveals WWF’s Living Planet Report China, 2015, a flagship research report on the country’s demand on nature. The fourth issue of the report, themed “development, species and ecological civilization”, tracked 2,419 representative …
The Australian Conservation Foundation has launched what it described as a historic bid to have the federal government’s approval of Adani’s Carmichael coalmine declared illegal – but the action has prompted one Coalition senator to renew calls for a crackdown on so-called “green lawfare”. The ACF on Monday lodged the …
The boss of BHP Billiton will arrive in Brazil on Monday to see at first-hand the devastation wrought by the collapse of a dam at an iron ore mine co-owned by the company that has left at least two dead and dozens missing. Three days after the rupturing of two …
Over two centuries of economic growth have put undeniable pressure on the ecological systems that underpin human well-being. While it is agreed that these pressures are increasing, views divide on how they may be alleviated. Some suggest technological advances will automatically keep us from transgressing key environmental thresholds; others that …
