Adyar Estuary gets a breather from sand mining
The Adyar Estuary, which has been at the mercy of sand driggers shovels for close to two years, has been given a respite, thanks to efforts taken by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to apply
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Dwindling resources
Villagers in Koratagere taluk, Karnataka, are against sand quarrying on the banks of the Suvarnamukhi river as it has affected the ground water level in the area. Setting up sub-canals for irrigating
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Illegal sand quarrying triggers migration
Large scale illegal sand quarrying, beyond permitted depth in a lake in Madambakkam, near Tambaram, has affected four villages in the area, resulting in many people migrating to other parts in search
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Nepal State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, April 2014
<p>A project launched in the Far-Western region of Nepal, to provide clean and energy efficient cooking stoves to 150,000 households has become the country’s first of its kind as part of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme. Read more in this April 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Nepal</p>
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Smugglers strike it rich in dry Vaigai
Illegal sand quarrying is a 'well organised' operation in Madurai. Thanks to the Vaigai remaining dry for the most part of the year, the riverbed serves as a perennial source of "minting money" for
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Victim of changes
High carbon dioxide levels may bring about some unpleasant surprises
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Promptly overturned
In a dramatic development, a division bench of the Madras High Court vacated the stay on the Tamil Nadu government order (go) that terminated licences for sand quarrying. The previous restraining
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Party time
But who pays Goa is a tourist paradise. But tourists need more than just sun and sand. In its defence of the Regional Plan, the government says, "Goa's economy was initially based on mining.
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Quarry in quagmire
Caught in a death trap, Jharia residents await doomsday. While BCCL openly displays a let them die attitude and the government remains silent, people continue sitting on fire
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New insight into Africa's history
In 1999 an American historian, John Hunwick, came upon a cache of old documents in a family library in Timbuktu, Mali. The discovery was seminal. It revealed that Africa had a sophisticated literary culture. This went against the grain of historical writing then: Africa's history was thought of as all oral tradition.<br>
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In Court
sole authority: The Madras High Court (HC) has vested the Tamil Nadu government with the exclusive right to carry out sand quarrying activities. In doing so, the HC has upheld a government order (GO)
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A year after Kalinganagar firing, tribal India refuses to shine
Driving to the Kalinga Nagar Industrial Zone to commemorate the first anniversary of tribals killed during a protest, stone crushers line the newly paved highway. Women, children and men wield
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Mining blues
THE state of Rajasthan evokes images of camels loping over lifeless sand stretching to the horizon, without the welcome punctuation of green cover. So the state government's bid to denotify
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Deadly impact
A series of comet collisions with the Earth may have led to the extinction of many species
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Why banning the fossil fuel industry from climate change negotiations may not be necessary
<p>This past year has witnessed some remarkable success in the global battle against climate change, particularly in comparison to the first half of the decade which began with the spillover of the infamous ‘climategate’ and swiftly followed with a measurable turn towards a more skeptical position on global warming, at least partly due to the disappointing Copenhagen conference of 2009. The fossil fuel industry now seems poised for an inevitable burial, hopefully never to be dug up again. After years of unmitigated damage to the environment, relentless protests by climate change activists and civil society organizations from around the world finally seemed to have been afforded the gravitas the situation deserves, when a landmark agreement was forged at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of Parties (COP 21) at Paris last year, pledging to move away from fossil fuels.</p>
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The sapling brigade
IN JANUARY, Doordarshan aired a documentary called The Green Brigade, which despite a typical Films Division tone, was informative, interesting and even balanced. It was on the Ecological Task Force
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Sands of time
Large portions of cultivable land may be lost to the desert in northwest China by end 1997
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What now ?
Desperate measures are the call of the day. Common people need to have a greater say
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Jharkhand plagued by silicosis
Most of us regard the Egyptian pyramids as architectural masterpieces. Justifiably so: the monuments are among the world's finest heritage. But then how many of us know the fate of the workers
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SOUTH AFRICA
A wetland in the St Lucia estuary on the cast coast in KwaZUILI-Natal province was saved from devastation when the country's cabinet banned the development of a mineral sands project by