Ecology and Environment
Environmentalists protest proposed projects near Konkan coastline
Posted on 09 Feb, 2016 12:48 PMActivists stand against three proposed projects near Konkan coastline
Eight ministries now responsible for Ganga clean up
Posted on 09 Feb, 2016 12:39 PMSeven ministries other than the Water Ministry to help revive the Ganga
Development or drastic ecological changes: Where is Dehradun headed?
Posted on 05 Feb, 2016 11:49 AMThe Babur Nama mentions that the “
Unnatural world: National parks and climate change
Posted on 01 Feb, 2016 03:39 PMForest guards in India have fought many things over time in the course of their daily work--poachers, irate citizens, even animals at times! But they are now facing a threat that may well be beyond their capacity to overcome. A threat that is not just responsible for the death of individual animals, but for the destruction of entire groups of species--climate change.
Can recurring droughts in Maharashtra be offset by participatory groundwater management (PGWM)?
Posted on 20 Jan, 2016 09:02 AMMaharashtra is the fourth state following Karnataka, Chattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh to seek out relief from the Union government thanks to more than 15,000 of its villages across Marathwada and parts of Western Maharashtra reeling under drought in 2015 [1].
The semi-arid regions of the Moyar-Bhavani basin
Posted on 17 Jan, 2016 10:56 PMToday's rural poor operate in highly risky and uncertain environments. Grappling with multiple stresses like eroding natural resources, poor assets and increasing climate variability, they are constantly adjusting their lives and livelihoods--changing a crop grown, digging another well, or migrating to a nearby town.
Lessons on ecology from the Apatani tribe in Ziro Valley
Posted on 17 Jan, 2016 03:42 PMZiro Valley, which figures in the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites as a unique cultural landscape, sits at a height of 5600 feet in Arunachal Pradesh. It is inhabited by the Apatani tribe who are completely confined to the valley.
NITI Ayog allocates Rs 1000 crore for groundwater contaminated zones
Posted on 11 Jan, 2016 09:48 PMGovernment to install community water purification plants in water toxic zones
Ken-Betwa river gets some respite
Posted on 08 Jan, 2016 01:03 PMIn December 2015, more than forty years after it was conceived, the Government was set to launch India’s ambitious 30-link river interlinking project linking 37 rivers.