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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No space for industry in Punjab
* When land is found, it
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Conservation and farming must learn to live together
<p>Conservationists and agriculturalists must harness new, integrated approaches to achieve biodiversity and agricultural goals, argues Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme.</p> <p>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028085.100-conservation-and-farming-must-learn-to-live-together.html?full=true&print=true</p>
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Soya scrutiny
Large swathes of the Brazilian Amazon have come to resemble the midwestern United States in recent years, having been planted with soya as far as the eye can see. This development has unnerved conservation
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Agriculture and the Clean Development Mechanism
<p>Many experts believe that low-cost mitigation opportunities in agriculture are abundant and comparable in scale to those found in the energy sector. They are mostly located in developing countries and have to do with how land is used. By investing in projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), countries can tap these opportunities to meet their own Kyoto Protocol obligations.
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Shared value, shared responsibility
<p>High prices and concerns about energy security in the oil and gas industry are driving expansion into ever more sensitive environments with greater technological, political and social risks. While brands such as BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are well known, some 70 per cent of oil and gas industry activities are typically contracted out to service providers and their subcontractors.
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Why don't we ask? A complementary method for assessing the status of great Apes
<p>Species conservation is difficult. Threats to species are typically high and immediate. Effective solutions for counteracting these threats, however, require synthesis of high quality evidence, appropriately targeted activities, typically costly implementation, and rapid re-evaluation and adaptation.
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Environmental impact assessment for proposed (0.96 Million TPA) coal washery at Chote Dhoumarpali, Kharsia Distt,Raigarh
M/s Rajan Coal Washery Limited has Proposed to install Coal washery of capacity 0.96 MTPA at Village- Chote Dhoumarpali, Tehsil- Kharsia, Dist- Raigarh, State- Chhattisgarh. The report has been prepared
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Emissions from fire in sub-Saharan Africa: the magnitude of sources, their variability and uncertainty
About half of the global gas and particle emissions to the atmosphere resulting from the burning of biomass originate from sub-Saharan Africa. There are four principal pathways: wildfires, the use of biomass
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Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports
<p>Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may prevent developing countries from managing how natural resources are extracted to meet a strong market demand. Extraction for some resources has reached such proportions that evidence is measurable from space.</p>
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China faces up to 'terrible' state of its ecosystems
<p>Counting the cost of decades of breakneck development, Chinese scientists and policy-makers outlined the daunting challenges they face in trying to halt the country's environmental degradation.</p>