Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Nagercoil: A seminar on the status of tanks was convened here by environmentalists attached to various non-governmental organisations on Saturday. Most of the tanks of Kanyakumari district were full of weeds which reduced their capacity and promoted evaporation of water resources of Kanyakumari district intended for irrigation and drinking water …
US EPA and its state and tribal partners have conducted a survey of the nation's lakes, ponds and reservoirs. This National Lakes Assessment is designed to provide statistically valid regional and national estimates of the condition of lakes. It uses a probability-based sampling design to represent the condition of all …
Arsenic contamination of groundwater has become alarming in the district with around 800 people affected with arsenic related diseases.The authorities have found 33,000 deep tube-wells with arsenic contamination and sealed those with red colour.According to a report of HID Bangladesh, a local NGO, 20 people died of arsenic-contaminated diseases and …
Ahmedabad: That pouch of water can be dangerous, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) found out after sample testing of three water bottling units in GIDC, Naroda, recently. On December 9, a team of sanitary supervisors form AMC had done a surprise check of three bottling units in the GIDC campus and …
City lakes with an expanse of 10 hectares or more are likely to be declared as ''heritage'' water bodies. A State Government notification to the effect is just is imminent, with the Byramangala, Bellandur, Varthur and Madivala lakes to be given this tag in the first phase. The Bangalore Developmental …
As scientists worry about the prospect of a catastrophic flood from Lake Sarez in the Pamir Mountains, agricultural communities on the plains below face a very different problem. This arid region in Central Asia has inherited a set of resource blunders made decades ago by the Soviet Union. And since …
Lake Sarez was born nearly a century ago, when a mountainside in Tajikistan crumbled during a magnitude-7.4 earthquake. The 567-meter-high landslide blocked an alpine river, forming the world's tallest dam. Since then, the valley behind it has filled with 17 billion cubic meters of snow and glacier melt. Experts fear …
VELLORE: Calling on engineers to come up with technologies which will aid in the development of a fleet of robots for underwater exploration, Mohd Rizal Arshad, Director of the Underwater Robotics Research Group, at Universiti Sains, Malaysia, on Tuesday said engineering must act as a tool for oceanographers to study …
THE Supreme Court on Monday posted to February 23, the case relating to Sethusamudram wherein Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy sought an alternate alignment for the project without affecting the revered Ramar Sethu. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justice R V Raveendran and Justice J M Panchal, …
It will start functioning in Bhubaneswar as a pilot project Proposal to prorogue winter session approved DSPs to be recruited directly BHUBANESWAR: The State Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to prorogue the winter session of the Assembly which had been abruptly adjourned sine die on December 5 even though …
Migratory birds have started flocking in large numbers to Maithon dam, Tenughat dam, Garga, Chandrapura and other water reservoirs here much to the delight of bird watchers of Dhanbad, Bokaro, Maithon, Chandrapura, Tenughat and other parts of the coal belt. Starling, Ruff, Black-winged stilt, Common teal, Greenshank, white and yellow …
To create awareness on rain water harvesting in and around the City and villages, the Water Literacy Foundation (WLF) on Monday launched Water Literacy on Wheels, a collaborative effort in association with the Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj and NABARD. A N Yellappa Reddy, former principal secretary for …
S.S. NEGI he Supreme Court on Monday did not approve the Centre taking too much time for submitting the report of the expert committee under R.K. Pachauri set up by the government to examfine the viability of controversial Sethusamundram project as the apex court is holding back its verdict reserved …
Chander Shekhar Sharma | Dharamshala Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Sunday invited scientists and environmentalists to suggest ways and means to popularise water harvesting schemes in the State. He said that once the system was adopted by people in totality, the water crisis would come to an …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has asked the Centre to review the Ken-Betwa river-linking project in Madhya Pradesh in view of the ecological implications. In a letter to Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mr. Ramesh suggested that it
As the world leaders debate on disastrous effect of climate changes in Copenhagen, back home the Supreme Court, in a verdict, has highlighted how depleting water resources often result in pitched battles and loss of human life in unwarranted unjustified duels for every drop of water. Such fights take place …
Manoj Anand Assam's environment ministry has identified four wetlands: Jon-Beel, Kaziranga, Dhar Beel and Bordoibam Bilmukh. It is pushing for their status as Ramsar sites. THE ASSAM government has embarked upon an ambitious plan of protecting its wetland for maintaining the ecological balance by proposing to mark four major wetlands …
