The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Land Use
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The economic potential of bioenergy for climate change mitigation with special attention given to implications for the land system
<p> Generating energy from crops instead of oil and coal can have counterproductive effects. “The use of biomass can lead to additional emissions of greenhouse gases”, says lead author Alexander
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Brazil revisits forest code
A tough-minded law has boosted Brazil's environmental record in recent years by helping to drive the rate of destruction in the Amazon rainforest to historic lows. But a backlash in the hinterlands is
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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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Reduced methane growth rate explained by decreased Northern Hemisphere microbial sources
Atmospheric methane (CH4) increased through much of the twentieth century, but this trend gradually weakened until a stable state was temporarily reached around the turn of the millennium, after which
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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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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society, Mumbai
<p> <span id="itro1">This audit report of CAG on the Adarsh Housing Society scam in Mumbai tabled in the Parliament blamed the Environment Ministry for allowing the building to come up flouting coastal zone regulations.</span></p>
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Agri census work begins in Kerala
The Department of Economics and Statistics has begun work on the ninth Agricultural Census in the State. The main thrust of the enumeration relates to ascertaining ownership of land, its utility on agriculture,
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Kaziranga National Park: History, landscape and conservation practices
In an atmosphere marked by a growing confrontation, the Assam Forest Department and a dominant section of the Assamese nationalists and conservationists argue that the Kaziranga National Park is facing
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Impacts of increasing production costs on rice price: implications for food security
This study has focused on impacts of increasing production costs on rice price as well food security situation in Bangladesh. The research report has estimated rice demand according to the consumption