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 …
DMRC chief E Sreedharan has pricked the conscience of the city for abusing the river that is its lifeline. But his proposal for building retaining walls on both the banks and developing the low-lying areas has not met with approval from experts TIMES NEWS NETWORK DMRC chief E Sreedharan
New Delhi: There is a bag full of green issues that the next environment minister will have tackle as he/she takes over. Some of them are politically tricky while others are keenly watched by the industry and yet more that the entire world will be keeping an eye out for. …
CHANDIGARH: Distressed by the shocking findings of enquiry reports on illegal mining in ecologically fragile lower Shivalik hill areas falling in districts of Yamunanagar, Ambala and Panchkula, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the state government to lay out an environmental impact assessment blueprint before pushing ahead with …
The only thing the world is running out of is space to plant a colossal amount of imaginary forest to avoid carbon dioxide emissions. We can prevent the latter through much smarter and cheaper means, says Bj
Syed Muthahar Saqaf Exhibition enables people to appreciate these beings, conserve them Extraordinary facts of the ordinary: An exhibition on amazing Amphibians and Molluscs organised by the Barn Owl Nature Club in Tiruchi on Sunday. TIRUCHI: The two-day exhibition organised by the Barn Owl Nature Club (BONC) in connection with …
Shimla: The Himalaya Niti Abhiyan (HNA), a forum of environment -related movements across the state, has called upon all political parties to state their considered position on environment-related issues. The forum organised the Himalaya Bachao Rally and a two-day conference to focus attention on these issues earlier this month. It …
Indapur (Pune): Jaising Nagre makes a living by fishing in the Ujjani dam backwaters in Indapur. Nagre, who is from the Bhoi community, says that in the last decade around 3,000 fishermen from other states have settled down around the Ujjani dam and have evicted the locals from plum fishing …
How do you choose between a wilderness and a power station? The tough choices associated with large-scale renewable energy projects are dividing the green movement.
A colony of iron-breathing microbes has survived for millions of years under an Antarctic glacier, thriving without air or sunlight, researchers reported on Thursday. The tiny organisms were probably trapped when the sea they were living in became sealed in the ice and they may have survived since then on …
The High Court has directed the Government to submit a report on the damage caused to ecology due to rampant sand mining along the banks of Arkavathi river in Ramanagara. A division bench headed by Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, while hearing a Public Interest Litigation by a resident of …
His family left Manila when Buencamino "Boy" Talabucon was only three years old to settle in Davao del Sur. They were poor and so after graduating from high school, he started working by driving a passenger's vehicle. After more than a decade of driving daily for twelve hours along bumpy …
Human beings change landscapes and their culture is embodied by landscapes. It is generally assumed that African Americans have a negative impression of wildlands. This assumption is tested by the information about distribution of African American population and wildlands from all 67 counties of Alabama in USA. The results indicate …
Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India proposes to embark on a project, namely, Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihood Improvement Project (BCRLIP), at two sites of global and national biodiversity importance in the country. BCRLIP signals a paradigm shift from hitherto Protected Area (PA) conservation approaches, wherein PAs were …
The man-animal conflict in the Sunderbans has touched scores of women tragically, leaving Jelepara a village of 'tiger widows' Trouble Prowling Jelepara village, in the Sunderbans, is known as the Village of Widows, because of the large number of its inhabitants killed by man-eating tigers Locals say on average tigers …
LAND VALUE The ecological services of land such as soil formation, pollution control and nutrient recycling are only beginning to be counted, says Rabindranath Majumdar At one point in Rabindranath Tagore
Giridih, March 16: The effect of nanotechnology on agriculture could generate some interesting results, feel scientists at the Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih centre. Chemical fertilisers and pesticides are harmful to the ecology. Thus, the Union ministry of science and technology has funded a research development programme of agro-enterotoxic nano-particles and …
Observing that the preservation of ecology is a fundamental challenge, Governor NN Vohra has said Shri Amarnath Shrine Board will take a firm initiative in funding eco-awareness-cum-conservation campaigns and supplementing the afforestation programmes in selected areas. He observed this at the first meeting of the Environment Sub-Committee of the board …
JAMMU: Observing that the preservation of ecology is a fundamental challenge, Governor N.N.Vohra said that the Amarnath Shrine Board shall take a firm initiative in funding eco-awareness-cum-conservation campaigns and supplementing the afforestation programmes in selected areas. Attaching significance to the first meeting of the Environment SubCommittee of the Board, governor …
