India Environment Portal Knowledge for change

Environment

• The state of the world’s human rights 2024

  This report documents human rights concerns during 2023 in 155 countries, connecting issues at global and regional levels and looking forward to the implications for the future. States and armed groups

  • 24/04/2024

  • Amnesty International
  • • Human Rights
    • India
    • Global
    • Africa
    • Economy
    • Environment
    • Climate Change

• Don't just climb, clean up Everest

  Most climbers scale Mount Everest because it is there. But a team of American climbers is planning to trek to the top of the world's highest peak to clear the waste which has piled up just below the

  • 11/04/1998

  • Kuensel (Bhutan)
  • • Environment

• 3-day convention against WTO from April 29

  The Joint action forum of Indian people against World Trade Organisation (WTO) and anti-people policies is organising convention, rally and public meeting from April 29 to May 1 in the city to demand

  • 21/04/1998

  • • Environment

• First lady cautions on ecological crisis

  Conservation and environmental protection would become that much easier to tackle if we accept the truth that mankind is only one of the 1.6 million species of living organisms, known to inhabit

  • 23/04/1998

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• - Rs 3-cr project to check erosion

  A Rs 3-cr project to save land in the Bharial Bulge area from erosion due to floods in the Ravi has been cleared by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, according to Mr S.S. Ghuman,

  • 22/04/1998

  • • Environment

• - AMC goes soft on offenders on first day of clean city drive

  Some notices and several warnings were issued to littering public on the first day of the clean city campaign launched by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation even as the latter emphasised more on

  • 21/04/1998

  • • Environment

• - Greens question efficacy of industrial location policy

  As dangerous and polluting industries show no sign of relocating out of the city, environmentalists are questioning the efficacy of Mumbai's industrial location policy. The major oil, chemical and

  • 20/04/1998

  • • Environment

• - Factory pollution survey in Rajkot

  The Municipal corporation will conduct a survey of factories that were polluting the environment. Students of Saurashtra University will be carrying out the survey.

  • 18/04/1998

  • • Environment

• Drought leaves Panama Canal in dire straits

  Panama Canal officials are struggling with a water shortage so severe that they recently took the unusual step of limiting the loads of some ships passing through. The El Nino weather phenomenon,

  • 21/04/1998

  • • Environment

• White scalps tingling

  The Muckleshoot Indians are building a $30m, 23,000 seat amphitheatre, south east of Seattle. So far, however, it has mostly earned enimity. Hundreds of non-Muckleshoots who live near the

  • 18/04/1998

  • Economist (London)
  • • Environment

• - MCD plans to make law against littering tougher

  The municipal corporation of Lucknow is now trying to clean up that city by providing dustbins and seeking to increase the fine amount for littering streets to Rs 500.

  • 18/04/1998

  • • Environment