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 …
Pune: The India Greens Party (IGP) has pledged support to the candidates who publicly agree to implement at least 50% of the points in the party’s recently released manifesto. The national-level party was formed on November 18, 2018, in New Delhi. The party’s Pune chapter started in March this year. …
PATNA: Political parties have set their agendas and are busy with electioneering with not even a week left for the first phase of Lok Sabha election on April 11. But none of them has made environment protection as a key issue in their political agendas. The issue was raised at …
Royal Dutch Shell last year experienced a sharp rise in the number of oil spills caused by pipeline theft in Nigeria, which the company said were the result of larger output and higher oil prices. The number of spills caused by sabotage and theft in the Niger delta rose last …
AS Tanzania plans to take vital steps to address boundary challenges in conserved areas, it is claimed that an increase in human activities around one of Africa's most iconic ecosystems, the Serengeti, is squeezing the wildlife in its core. A research carried out by the University of Groningen with collaborators …
Donald Trump has issued a new permit for a controversial oil pipeline that critics say will devastate local communities and prove disastrous for the environment. The move comes in spite of a federal judge blocking the Keystone XL project in November, saying the government had not fully considered oil spills …
Chinese authorities have banned fishing in the Ertix River, the only river originating in China that flows north into the Arctic Ocean. According to the fishery management center in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region's Altay prefecture, fishing will be banned year-round in all natural rivers in the Altay region, including …
The fund owns shares in 9,158 companies, 1.4% of the world's listed equity, so decisions to drop or reinstate companies from its investments carry considerable weight among investors. The ethics watchdog for Norway’s $1-trillion wealth fund will focus this year on shipbreaking on India’s beaches, which endangers workers and pollutes …
Over the past three years, Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group Co Ltd has shut down about one-third of its production capacity and four chemical waste discharge flues along the Yangtze River. The moves are in line with government calls for improving ecological protection and cleaning up China's "mother river", which has …
The controversy surrounding Ogoni clean up exercise may not have abated as civil society groups are still questioning the process being adopted by the federal authorities to remedy the sites. The group - Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), said that the status of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) in …
‘Western Ghats is dotted by unnecessary dams’ A large number of projects that are planned and implemented in the country are economically, socially, and environmentally unjustifiable ones, said noted ecologist Madhav Gadgil. Mr. Gadgil was speaking at a panel discussion on ‘Environmental Governance: Tough Times Ahead?’ organised by the Centre …
Tanzania has given Acacia Mining Plc up to March 30 to stop waste water pollution at North Mara gold mine or face a shutdown, its mining minister said. Doto Biteko, said he had issued the deadline to stop what he said was seepage of contaminated water from a mining waste …
Changes in the law would prove disastrous for the Aravalis, says Rao Inderjit Singh In an embarrassment to the BJP government in Haryana, Union Minister of State for Planning (Independent Charge) and the party’s Gurugram Lok Sabha MP Rao Inderjit Singh on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court’s order preventing the …
Ludhiana: Lines from Guru Granth Sahib ‘Pavan guru paani pita, maata dhart mahat’ (Air is our teacher, Water our father, and the Earth our mother ) was the message given to the visitors who attended the flower-show-cum-photography competition held at gurdwara, Sarabha Nagar, on Sunday. The flower show which started …
East China's Jiangsu Province will establish nine courts to handle environment-related cases in nine different ecological zones within the province. Different from traditional courts dealing with cases in specific administrative divisions, each of these courts will take charge of one ecological zone, such as the Yangtze River basin, Taihu Lake …
Polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene are the most abundant microplastics in the Mediterranean coastal waters, according to a new study published by the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin -by the experts Miquel Canals, William P. de Haan, and Anna Sànchez-Vidal, from the Consolidated Research Group on Marine Geosciences of the Faculty of …
Up to 1,500 chimpanzees could be killed by a new Chinese dam that will swamp a crucial sanctuary for the endangered primate in Guinea, experts have warned. The 294MW Koukoutamba dam will be built by Sinohydro, the world’s biggest hydroelectric power plant construction company, in the middle of a newly …
The Great Barrier Reef will be better protected from the effects of climate change and pollution under new laws passed by the Australian State government of Queensland on Wednesday. The laws target agricultural and other sources of runoff from industry in Queensland which decreases water quality and threatens the health …
Every public action and policy must be judged through the lens of transparency, equality, participatory democracy and its impact on those who are vulnerable, deprived and marginalised as well as on natural ecosystems, argues a new manifesto released by a group of environmental activists and NGOs. The manifesto, titled ‘People’s …
CHENNAI: From neurons, electrons to environment, the Science at the Sabha 2019 organised by The Institute of Mathematical Sciences will have four scientists specialising in different fields help break down four different concepts for the science lovers. The program, which is a part of the Triveni outreach of IMSc, will …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/02/2019 regarding mining in Aravalli in the state of Rajasthan. Chief Secretary of Rajasthan has undertaken before the Court that ground truthing work would be completed …
