Jute cultivation hit, acute water crisis prevails
Jute cultivation in Rajbari is being hampered seriously due to prolonged drought, farmers, and agriculture officials said. The prolong drought hampered the preparation of their land. Due to drought
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River erosion leaves 5,000 homeless in Lalmonirhat
More than 5,000 people at six villages in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila has become homeless in the last five days due to erosion by the River Darla. At least 120 dwelling houses, a mosque, a temple and a vast track of crop lands were eroded during the period. The erosion-hit villages are Badaitari, Mogholhat, Kurul, Megharam, Bongram and Itapota. The affected people have taken shelter on different roads, embankments and on the high lands. Many villagers are passing days with grave anxiety as the river is rapidly eroding houses and crop fields, local people said.
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Non-tribals misuse Act
Publicity given for the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 to educate the STs on their rights on forest land became a nuisance for the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA). ITDA organised street plays with the help of Jana Vignana Vedika cultural troops to highlight the Act in the areas close to forest. Many people including vested interests are making a beeline to the ITDA office everyday to stake a claim on forest land though they are no way concerned and not eligible under the Act.
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Coastal infrastructure: a typology for the next century of adaptation to sea-level rise
<p>Categorizing the choices in coastal infrastructure that are available to policy makers will allow for comparisons of their potential impacts on ecosystems and of their value in preparation for long-term
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Global landscape of climate finance 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, there is a strong hope that the Paris Climate Summit could represent a turning point in the global fight against climate change. A transformation of global financial and energy
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Regenerating forests and livelihoods in Nepal: a new lease on life
This book seeks to capture the leasehold forestry experience, with a special focus on the Leasehold Forestry and Livestock Programme, which has been a critical part of the leasehold forestry experience
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Stone crushers on land for trees
The record of the Haryana Forest Department says it has planted trees on the land of two villages of Faridabad district under the Aravalli Project, while the record of the Haryana Mining Department
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Brazil army worries foreign powers may eye Amazon
The Brazilian army has plenty to keep it busy in the Amazon jungle. Drug smugglers, illegal loggers and miners, land grabbers, guerrillas and assorted gunmen all lurk in the untamed area which is
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National project on climate resilient agriculture launched
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> The National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) project was launched at Vadavathur village, Erumapatti block, Namakkal district recently.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:
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US launches eco-network
Ready or not, the era of big data is coming to ecology. After years of discussion and debate, the United States is moving forward with an environmental monitoring network that promises to help transform
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Enigma of the recent methane budget
The previously increasing atmospheric methane concentration has inexplicably stalled over the past three decades. This may be due to a fall in fossil-fuel emissions or to farming practices that are curtailing
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U.P. Govt. moves Supreme Court over demolition
Sahara raised unauthorised constructions, it says High Court pulls up LDA for carrying out late night demolitions Illegal acts of company deprived public of free access along area: plea The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday moved the Supreme Court questioning the interim relief granted by the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, restraining the authorities from demolishing Sahara Shahar, a property belonging to the Sahara India Commercial Corporation in Lucknow.
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Survey plan of housing project differs from ground situation
Inspection of a mega housing project in Grande-Vanelilm in Colva has revealed that a well shown on the survey plan has ceased to exist on the ground, while storm water drain leading to a water pond stands filled up with mud. What's more, the inspection report read out by Panchayat Secretary, Rajendra Naik in the presence of Sarpanch Suzie Fernandes revealed that land filling has taken place, including the filling up of a ghairo (cowdung pond). The inspection was conducted as per last Sunday's gram Sabha meeting following a complaint lodged by Reena Fernandes and Menino Fernandes.
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IAF jets face bird-hit threat due to dump
Fighter jets of the Indian Air Force (IAF) taking off and landing at the local base area are under threat. The huge waste dump created near the air strip of the IAF is attracting a large number of
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New technologies promise biofuel 'plan B'
Ten years ago, running your car on biofuels meant covertly topping up your tank with chip fat. Now petrol is routinely mixed with ethanol made from corn, and diesel with squeezed rape, oil palm and soya. The current generation of biofuels was rushed onto the market in response to escalating concern in Europe about climate change, and in the US about energy security. But almost before the biofuels industry has got going, it has run into major problems. It has swiftly become a victim of its own success, gobbling up land and water in a way that has frightened the world.
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Civil societies role in climate change talks
G. Srinivasan New Delhi, June 29 As monsoon plays truant in India and fertile lands get parched for want of nourishing water, and with most of the diverse geographical regions reeling under unrelenting heat, the climate issue gets climactic.
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Why Posco should leave
I can still remember how people were dancing and kicking at the bamboo cordons and shouting "Posco Go Back', when we reached Balitutha, near Parikud in Orissa on April 1, 2008. People from many parts of the state, especially from the scene of anti-displacement struggles (including Kalinga Nagar), had joined the local people and the gathering was huge. Exactly four months earlier, on December 1, 2007, I had seen the same people demonstrate when I reached Dhinkia, the first village to be displaced by the Posco steel project. (Letter)
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Advancing dry climate over cardamom hills causes alarm
The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) has raised an alarm over the advancing dry climate in the Cardamom Hill Reserves (CHR) in the high ranges of eastern Kerala, otherwise known as original cardamom
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Sabarmimala: Centre allots 12.65 hectares of forest land
The Union Environment and Forests Ministry has cleared 12.65 hectares of forest land in Pampa and Sabarimala forests in the Periyar Tiger Project area in Kerala for providing more facilities to the
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Illegal sand mining will be stopped in a fortnight
Illegal sand mining will be “closed down” in the next 15 days, said District Collector S.B. Deepak Kumar. On Wednesday, the collector went on an inspection to the various parts where illegal sand mining is rampant. The visit included Soriyankuppam in the Bahour area, where sand is taken from the Pennaiyar River and Manalipet and Thethampakkam in the Villianur area.