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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Govt ups efforts to resuscitate crawling Gomti
LUCKNOW: The fact that Gomti's flow and level have reduced drastically has caught the attention of the government which is now mulling to constitute a river conservation unit for its restoration and conservation. The river, reeling under the bane of pollution and encroachment, has its flow reduced to one-third and is in an urgent need of revival.
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Maldivian government to establish Land and Survey Authority
The Cabinet has yesterday decided to establish the Maldives Land and Survey Authority. The decision was made at the cabinet meeting held yesterday, after deliberating on a paper presented by the Ministry of Housing and Environment. The President
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Law in offing to ban conversion of farmland
The government has initiated a move to protect agricultural land in the wake of
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Findings and implications from a coarse-scale global assessment of recent selected mega-fires
<p>In many parts of the world, the number of large wildfires has been increasing at an alarming rate. Among them, so-called “mega-fires” have emerged. These extraordinary conflagrations are unprecedented in the modern era for their deep and long-lasting social, economic, and environmental impacts. This paper examines eight mega-fires from around the globe. It attempts
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Cities hostage to Archaic land use policies: Nath
Moots cell on land economics to put scarce resources to best use & create efficient cities The government wants to frame principles for land use in urban India to help cities and towns cope with the pressures of growth and migration.
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The emissions gap between the Copenhagen pledges and the 2 degree C climate goal: Options for closing and risks that could widen the gap
As part of the Copenhagen Accord, Annex I Parties (industrialised countries) and non-Annex I Parties (developing countries) have submitted reduction proposals (pledges) and mitigation actions to the UNFCCC
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Environmental knowledge for disaster risk management
The ‘Environmental Knowledge for Disaster Risk Management (ekDRM)’ project aims at capacity development in disaster risk management by advancing environmental knowledge, particularly the use of statistics
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Productivity of malaria vectors from different habitat types in the Western Kenya Highlands
<p>Mosquito Larval Source Management (LSM) could be a valuable additional tool for integrated malaria vector control especially in areas with focal transmission like the highlands of western Kenya if it were not for the need to target all potential habitats at frequent intervals.
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Options for REDD+ voluntary certification to ensure net GHG benefits, poverty alleviation, sustainable management of forests and biodiversity conservation
<p>Our objective was to compare and evaluate the practical applicability to REDD+ of ten forest management, social, environmental and carbon standards that are currently active worldwide: Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB), CCB REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards (CCBA REDD+ S&E), CarbonFix Standard (CFS), Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Global Conservation Standard (GCS),
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Protecting Indias protected areas
<p>An official committee’s recipe for forest management will, if implemented, have a disastrous impact. (Editorial)</p>