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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OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050
The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 asks “What could the next four decades bring?” Based on joint modelling by the OECD and the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, it looks forward to the
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PM blames ‘failure of system’ for low agriculture yields
Despite the steady growth of India’s farm sector in the past five years, the country has not been able to utilise fully the many scientific achievements in the agriculture sector, Prime Minister Manmohan
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Estimated global mortality attributable to smoke from landscape fires
The first global estimates of deaths from non-domestic smoke exposure are surprisingly high, say researchers, who warn the casualties will increase as temperatures rise because of climate change.
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Organic farming improves pollination success in strawberries
Pollination of insect pollinated crops has been found to be correlated to pollinator abundance and diversity. Since organic farming has the potential to mitigate negative effects of agricultural intensification
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Enhancing carbon stocks and reducing CO2 emissions in agriculture and natural resource management projects
Agriculture production in different regions is facing complex challenges such as the impact of climate variability and change, land degradation, increased competition for water, increasing labor and input
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Prospect of commercial sugar beet farming bright in BD
RAJSHAHI : Prospect of sugar beet farming commercially in different parts of the country has been detected as bright and that can contribute a lot address the sugar deficit of the country to some extent.
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Structuring economic incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation within Indonesia
We estimate and map the impacts that alternative national and subnational economic incentive structures for reducing emissions from deforestation (REDD+) in Indonesia would have had on greenhouse gas emissions
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Mid-latitude afforestation shifts general circulation and tropical precipitation
We show in climate model experiments that large-scale afforestation in northern mid-latitudes warms the Northern Hemisphere and alters global circulation patterns. An expansion of dark forests increases
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Sri Lanka - Key environmental issues
Sri Lanka - An overview of key environmental issues.
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The land mapping is almost ready
SHILLONG: The North East Space Application Centre (NESAC) and the Meghalaya Forest Department are working to complete the ‘land use map’ for the State so that lands that are used for different purposes can be examined scientifically to ensure its maximum utility. Land is a very precious and now very scarce resource that has to be used for getting maximum benefits for agriculture purposes, growing forests, mining, installing industries and for construction of houses, roads.