Chandigarh: The Punjab government is planning to start eco-tourism trail in Shivalik Hills where fossils of wild camel, horses and bulls dating back to nearly three million years have been found. The fossils,
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging the recent steep hike in the price of petrol. Accepting the arguments of Central Government senior standing counsel S Haja Mohideen
PATHANAMTHITTA: The draft project report on the three new eco-tourism centres of Kakki, Anathode and Moozhiyar is ready for approval of the Forest Department authorities. Talking to Express, Ranni DFO
JAIPUR: A division bench of Rajasthan High Court has called for a report from the state government following allegations of non-compliance of the provisions of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagjostic Techniques
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the World No Tobacco Day was observed all across on Thursday, there are efforts to achieve the goal of making Cuttack and Khurda districts smoke-free. Both the districts are among
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tobacco is being used in a wide variety of ways in India, either as smokeless tobacco as chewing pan, pan masala or gutka, and ‘mishri’ (a powdered tobacco rubbed on the gums as toothpaste)
DIBRUGARH, May 31: The Environmental Awareness Programme was launched by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Assam Oil Division (AOD) from May 30 as a curtain-raiser to the World Environment Day celebration.
And it’s time to take on an elephantine challenge. Nearly 3,000 surveyors — armed with notebooks, pencils and area maps — will fan out across all the 24 districts of the state from Friday to tally the
Will negotiating parties be able to sort out their differences at Doha? At the most recent UN meeting on climate change at Bonn, deep divisions that have existed between countries came to the fore, obscuring
n the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), 1,200 new species have been discovered in the past 20 years, while on the island of Borneo, scientists have discovered 600 new species in that same time span. The
A green economy is necessary if sustainable development is to be realized. However, as this report emphasizes, a green economy can also, if accompanied by the right policy mix, create more and better jobs,
The current security paradigm adopted by most governments and their defence forces is based on the premise that insecurity can be controlled through military force or containment, thus maintaining the
As the world belatedly turns its attention to the pressing issues of environmental degradation, resource scarcity and climate change, the concept of sustainability takes its rightful place at centre stage
This study is part of ICLEI’s contribution to the international preparatory process for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as the Rio+20 Conference. It focuses on the
This publication provides a synthesis of UNHCR’s flagship publication, The State of the World’s Refugees: In Search of Solidarity. The book itself was produced during 2011-2012, and written from the perspective
This new report by Greenpeace warns that depleting fish stocks and historical neglect of marine conservation are causing three major problems for India: massive job losses, damaged ecosystems and a weaker national GDP. It states that 90 per cent of India's fish stocks are at or above maximum sustainable levels of exploitation.
As the population continues to grow and natural resources become scarcer, the need to shift toward an environmentally responsible, socially accountable, more equitable, and “greener” economy has become
This paper revisits, with new data, the changes in the distribution of global poverty towards middle-income countries (MICs). It outlines the distribution of global poverty as follows: half of the world’s poor live in India and China, a quarter of the world’s poor live in other MICs (primarily populous lower MICs such as Pakistan, Nigeria and Indonesia) and a quarter of the world’s poor live in the remaining 35 low-income countries.
This paper analyzes the impact of large-scale expansion of biofuels on the global income distribution and poverty. A global computable general equilibrium model is used to simulate the effects of the expansion
<p><span id="itro1">Cities around the world have identified the economic benefits from tackling the effects of climate change, according to this new report released by the CDP. It is based on the carbon
