The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
CHENNAI: The need for increasing the green cover in the city was stressed by C.K. Sreedharan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of Forest Force, Tamil Nadu, here on Saturday. Participating in the
This latest ADB publication provides an overview of poverty- environment interactions that show how poor communities in Asia and the Pacific have sought to break out of poverty through local actions that improved their environment. In recent years, initiatives by the international community to address the links between poverty and …
The biggest challenge facing humankind is to reconcile the impact of humans with the ability of our planet Earth to provide resources and absorb waste. This "crisis" presents a potentially pivotal opportunity for architects, who have a crucial role to play in addressing this challenge. Sustainable cities are the building …
Urbanization has a dynamic relationship with the physical environment. Urban and rural environments differ substantially in their microclimate. These climatic differences are primarily caused by the alteration on the surface of earth by human constructions and the release of artificially created energy into the environment. Inadvertent climate changes induced by …
Ahmedabad : Civic body is likely to take up a tree census for city with help of a Mumbai-based firm Terracon Ecotech. Census is one-of-its-kind in the country, based on modern methods using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) system. "The new technology will be a great …
Pune Whether he wins or loses, Pune can hope to be a lot more green if Bahujan Samaj Party candidate for the Lok Sabha constituency, D S Kulkarni, keeps his word. He has promised a tree for each vote he gets.
The report claims that the DDA has chopped down trees in around 27.7 acres whereas it site plan totals about 12.5 acres The one-man committee appointed by the Supreme Court to look into the environmental aspects of the badminton and squash stadium coming up adjacent to the Siri Fort Sports …
BY SHWETA SRINIVASAN, NEW DELHI A sparkling, clean Delhi and no bad smells either? This attractive picture seems a distinct possibility with the civic agency set to crack the whip from the new year on all those found littering and urinating in public places. With the 2010 Commonwealth Games barely …
Eminent environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna today suggested Bangaloreans to hug the trees which are on a 'death row' due to the Metro Rail project. Responding to questions, the grand-old Bahuguna said trees should never be felled for the
AHMEDABAD: Imagine a lazy, wintry Sunday evening at the Vastrapur Lake. Only, there are no cars or auto-rickshaws, no traffic jams, no obnoxious emissions, no honking of horns tearing your ear drums. Just, pedestrians and cyclists thronging the area. A great idea indeed, if the area is declared a "no-car …
Pune The outcome of the study, Strategic Environment Assessment, will be incorporated in future development plans Even as the citizens take on the state government for reducing the green cover by altering the draft development plan for Baner-Balewadi, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has undertaken a study, Strategic Environment Assessment …
The focus of this publication is efficient water use in urban and domestic environments and decision-making about sustainable development of human settlements. The book is written as a Sourcebook, highlighting essential questions that will have different answers in different situations. By looking at water use efficiency within the context of …
THE Local Administration Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday inaugurated the renovated Thiru Vi Ka Park, one of the best-known landmarks in Shenoy Nagar. Later addressing a gathering, Stalin said Rs 1.52 crore had been spent by the civic body to spruce up the park. The circular park with an …
Environmental quality assessment is essential for urban development. Rapid urbanisation has made it all the more essential now than before. But there is dearth of appropriate techniques to assess urban environment quality (UEQA). Here is a technique that is feasible, flexible and valid.
Mumbai, October 21 Members of a housing society in Wadala have moved the Bombay High Court challenging the destruction of trees on their premises for a redevelopment project. About 170 members of the Azad Nagar Cooperative Housing Society have moved the court against the BMC, East West Builders and office …
CHENNAI: On its third anniversary on Saturday, members of non-governmental organisation Nizhal gathered here to celebrate their growing membership and ongoing effort to plant saplings and treasure trees in and around Chennai.
