Asia’s wicked environmental problems
<p><span id="itro1">This new working paper by ADBI focuses on four major environmental challenges that policymakers across Asia will need to address towards 2030 - water management, air pollution, deforestation
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Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
<p>Large herbivores and carnivores (the megafauna) have been in a state of decline and extinction since the Late Pleistocene, both on land and more recently in the oceans. Much has been written on the
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Exercise caution while promoting GM food crops
Apprehensions of various sections must be allayed: M.S. Swaminathan In matters relating to genetically modified (GM) food crops, the government should ‘hasten cautiously,’ said eminent agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan. He was speaking on the sidelines of a visit to the Wheat Breeding Research Station of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) at Wellington, near here, on Tuesday.
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Link road at price of 700 trees, Rs 334 cr
To facilitate the Rs 334 crore UP link road project between NH-24 and Noida border, another round of deforestation is on the anvil. A total of about 700 trees will be cut down as part of this drive.
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Brinjal debacle still raw, Bt rice on course
Mahyco confident of regulatory approvals, plans launch within a year. Bt brinjal may have gone into the deep freezer, but that has hardly dampened the enthusiasm of Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co (Mahyco) from coming up with new genetically modified (GM) crops.
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Tripura practises Jhum in 17,000 hectares for paddy
AGARTALA: The Tripura government has targeted to achieve paddy cultivation in more than 17,000 hectares of hill land under improvised Jhuming (shifting cultivation) method in 2011-12. State’s Agriculture
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Mining scam: Central panel to reach Orissa today
The state steel and mines department continued to be on the edge a day before the Centre-appointed Justice M B Shah Commission probing the illegal mining activities in different parts of the country lands
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Encroachers damage portion of Sembakkam lake outlet point
Huge quantity of water gushed into Hasthinapuram Alarming: The breached portion of the outlet point of Sembakkam Lake. TAMBARAM: In a repeat of incidents that took place during monsoon the previous years, encroachers damaged a portion of the outlet point of a lake near Tambaram.
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Falling water table puts Punjab in danger zone
Punjab, the land of rivers, is drying up rapidly. The overexploitation of groundwater is leading to drastic depletion of water table in the state, prompting the scientists to call it a
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Builder asked to stop work near Magathane caves
Mumbai: The director of archaeology and museums, state, has issued a stop-work notice to the builder carrying out excavation work near the Magathane caves.
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Continuing the forest conservation debate: Rhetoric and reality of Green India Mission
The National Mission for a Green India proposal, released under the aegis of the National Action Plan on Climate Change, is a significant attempt to integrate the mechanism of ecosystem services in the
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Land block to power project
A 33KV power substation under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme has been scrapped because of the inability of the North Dinajpur administration to acquire land for the purpose. District magistrate Sukumar Bhattacharyya said the project, whose foundation stone was laid in January this year, had been shifted from Gadahat, 100km from here, to Kishenganj in Bihar.
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WB and ADB funding for KSTP second phase and SRIP
Decks have been cleared for mobilising resources from the World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the development of 367 kms of roads under the second phase of the Kerala State Transport Project
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Mining policy should not affect land owners
SHILLONG: The Congress-led MUA Government got a boost on Friday when Opposition NCP appreciated its move to introduce scientific mining in the State but it warned that the government should be careful while implementing the proposed mining policy, saying the policy might have serious repercussions on the land owners.
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Assam aims double harvest with multiple cropping
Farmers in Assam, who have traditionally remained content with a single crop per year, now have reasons to go for two or more crops beginning the current rabi season. The state Agriculture department has
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HC gives last chance to revive water bodies
JAIPUR: Half-a-dozen top bureaucrats of the state government faced flak from the Rajasthan High Court on Thursday for failing to take effective measures to remove encroachments from the Ramgarh Dam's catchment
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Betting big on basmati
It prided itself for being the land of orchards. This year, however, many in Karnikhera village in the border district of Ferozepur in Punjab did not go for kinnows or guavas but chose basmati
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TN shows the way
Jaya Jayalalithaa's Rain water harvesting campaign brings her legions of admirers and reams of accolades. Mindless urban land use and rural land exploitation have hit the water table. This
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Quantification of the inevitable: the influence of soil macrofauna on soil water movement in rehabilitated open-cut mined lands
<p>Recolonisation of soil by macrofauna (especially ants, termites and earthworms) in rehabilitated open-cut mine sites is inevitable and, in terms of habitat restoration and function, typically of great
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Peatland response to global change
Meter for meter, <span>peatland</span>s s<span>to</span>re more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem. Covering only about 3% of Earth's land area, they hold the equivalent of half of the carbon that is in the atmosphere as CO<sub>2</sub>.