Deep rocks might ease global warming
Rocks deep below the North Sea or the Ohio river in the United States could be burial grounds for global warming despite opposition from environmentalists who fear a leaky, short sighted fix.
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Delhi govt offers plan for revival of Yamuna
MANISH ANAND In a fresh bid to revive the dying Yamuna, the Delhi government has come up with a novel proposal. It wants the upper riparian states -Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh -to ensure that the 22-km-long stretch of the river flowing through Delhi remains pollution-free. It has come up with a draft bill, which it would like Parliament to pass, to ensure this.
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Brahmaputra tributaries causing massive erosion
TEZPUR, Aug 27 – Continuous erosion caused by tributaries of the Brahmaputra like Gabharu, Belsiri and Jiabhoroli has turned serious in Sonitpur district during the last couple of days, posing a serious
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KWSB’s infrastructure vulnerable to climate change
In early August, as people struggled to survive the humid summer heat, a huge power cut deprived almost half of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, of electricity for more than 16 hours and led to the rupture
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Governor visits Uri-I, Uri-II Hydel Projects
‘240 MW Uri-II Hydel Project to be now commissioned in January 2013’ SRINAGAR, Aug 26 : N. N. Vohra, Governor, today took stock of the pace of work on the execution of 240 MW Uri-II Hydel Power Project
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5 districts reeling under flood
GUWAHATI, Aug 26 – The water level of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries maintained a rising trend today with five districts of Assam reeling under the third wave of floods, reports PTI. Heavy and incessant
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Corporate water disclosure guidelines - Toward a common approach to reporting water issues
Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines – provides the first ever common approach to corporate water disclosure. Companies are fundamentally changing the way they address water. Increasingly, they are investing
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Oil spill spoil thousands of turtle eggs: activists
Rushikulya Rookery (Orissa), May 11, (PTI): Thousands of eggs of the endangered Olive Ridley turtles on the beach adjoining river Rushikulya in Ganjam district have failed to hatch this year because of the recent oil spill at a nearby port, conservationists claim.
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Chinese media wade into Jairam controversy
Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: China's official media have now waded into the controversy surrounding Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh's remarks in Beijing, praising him for speaking out against restrictions on Chinese companies but criticising his comments on Chinese dams on the Brahmaputra river.
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Hotels, golf course to come up at the Victorial Falls Heritage site
Two hotels, a golf course and 450 chalets will soon be there at the Victoria Falls World Heritage Site, on the fringes of one of the Africa's longest rivers, the Zambezi. The us $260-million
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Jayalalithaa asks PM to direct Karnataka to release water
Pressing her demand for convening the Cauvery River Authority meeting, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to direct Karnataka to release water to the state to raise long term crop in the Cauvery delta areas. Referring to her earlier letter dated May 18, she told the Prime Minister in a fresh communication on Thursday that her previous request for urgent need for convening a meeting of the CRA to decide certain specific issues was “yet to be acceded to.”
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Politics mars Paragodu project
"Politics is at the root of the ongoing tussle between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh over the sharing of water of Chitravathi river and an amicable solution could only be arrived at if the Centre
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Erosion gives sleepless nights to villagers
BHADRAK: Several families in a hamlet in Bhadrak district are living in constant fear of their homes being wiped out soon due to massive erosion by the river Salandi. Palatpur, situated on the Salandi banks near Akhandalmani temple, 55 km from the district headquarters, has already lost its playing and cattle grazing fields due to erosion by the river.
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Contrasting patterns of early twenty-first-century glacier mass change in the Himalayas
Glaciers are among the best indicators of terrestrial climate variability, contribute importantly to water resources in many mountainous regions and are a major contributor to global sea level rise. In
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3 power stations set off shutdown scare
Power officials recuperating from two successive and massive grid collapses had a close shave on Monday morning, offering just another reminder of how close to the brink India’s fragile grid infrastructure
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Jaya asks PM to direct Karnataka to release water
Pressing her demand for convening the Cauvery River Authority meeting, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Thursday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to direct Karnataka to release water to the state to raise long term crop in the Cauvery delta areas. Referring to her earlier letter dated May 18, she told the Prime Minister in a fresh communication today that her previous request for urgent need for convening a meeting of the CRA to decide certain specific issues was "yet to be acceded to."
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Devil and deep sea
Fisher communities in Bihar are caught in the dragnet of conservation
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Ministry team flayed for ‘selective’ site visit to reassess Posco project impact
The expert committee’s visit to Odisha on Tuesday to reassess the ecological impact of the Posco steel project lasted only for one hour and covered only selective sites, green activists have alleged.
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New floods strike southern Russia, four killed
Floods killed four people and prompted the evacuation of 1,500 others on Wednesday in the southern Russian province of Krasnodar, where a flash flood last month killed 171 people, police said. Heavy
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Airport construction will not hit environment: CIDCO
The CIDCO on Wednesday said the construction of the proposed Navi Mumbai airport would not affect the environmental balance of the region. Before starting the construction of the airport, the route of river Ulve will have to be altered by 90