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- Bearded vultures spotted in India
- A large colony of 200 Lammergeiers was seen earlier this week in remote Himachal Pradesh, close to the China border. The sighting is a major discovery in India ...
- Tree project takes root in Afghanistan
- A tree-planting project launched by an all-women local council in central Afghanistan is helping to build a green environment. With support from WFP, local ...
- 'Villages can prosper only if their water woes are solved'
- In a first attempt of its kind, a village in western India will be developed as a role model for use of water resources, according to the guidelines set by ...
- Tourism a major ecological concern in Ladakh
- Tourism is flourishing and providing livelihood opportunities to the people of Ladakh but is also playing havoc with its fragile eco-system, writes Shobha ...
- Communication lessons
- Taking a critical look at the 2004 Tsunami and its lessons, Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book by TVE Asia Pacific explores how the public ...
- Indian scientists still at sea on climate change
- Indian Institute of Science over its 100-year old history has produced some of the best scientific minds. Critics, however, rue that scientists associated with ...
- Global warming causing severe storms, says NASA
- A latest NASA study points out that global warming is increasing the formation of high clouds in the Earth's tropics causing severe storms and rainfall. ...
- A trip to the factory of death in India's Bhopal
- Twenty-four years after a toxic gas leak killed thousands in Bhopal, Reuters correspondent Alistair Scrutton walks through the plant site. ...
- Herbal therapy for dead trees in India
- Using traditional knowledge inherited from their forefathers, members of a tribe in north India have helped in rejuvenating almost 70% of dead trees of a long ...
- Ecosystem and human well-being
- UNDP-UNEP’s new handbook Mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into development planning serves as a guide for practitioners engaged in the ...
- Dying rivers of Dhaka threaten residents
- Pollution has made the oxygen level dip so low in the four major rivers encircling Dhaka that no aquatic life can possibly thrive in them. Toxic sludge and ...
- Climate change will leave millions displaced
- Unprecedented sea level rise may drive small islanders to unfamiliar locations, leaving them to struggle with a lost identity. A new policy document claims ...
- UN peacekeepers need to be sensitive to environment
- At a gathering of military and civilian aid experts in Nairobi, the stress was on the need to adopt sustainable management practices in relief operations by ...
- 'We can't fight climate with consumerism'
- Researchers have found that buying green can establish the moral credentials that license subsequent bad behaviour. A change in consumption habits is seldom ...
- Local communities in Nepal to manage forests
- Nepal's rural poor will get to manage hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest land with financial assistance from the UK’s Department for International ...
- Limiting carbon dioxide concentration in atmosphere
- If global warming were to be halted to a permissible limit, future global climate change treaty must limit the concentration of carbon dioxide in the ...
- Cow dung cremations catch on in India
- In India's impoverished state of Bihar, floods have forced people to come up with an environmentally friendly and cheaper way to cremate their dead. Instead of ...
- Indian scientists find bacteria to fight global warming
- Indian scientists have discovered naturally occurring microbes that convert carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into calcium carbonate. The discovery is being ...
- 'The green agenda is a political agenda'
- Environmental issues rarely find a place in Indian political parties election agenda, laments Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and ...
- World's major rivers 'drying up'
- Scientists have observed a downward trend in freshwater availability due to reduced river flow around the world. Installation of dams, irregular rainfall ...
- Ozone treaty holds the key to halting climate change
- Experts say that phasing out of “super greenhouse gases” – hydroflurocarbons or HFCs – as stipulated in the Montreal Protocol will do far more for climate ...
- India's model village
- A small village in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya has become the envy of its neighbours and visitors are thronging it to find the reasons. Experts ...
- India's water use 'unsustainable'
- According to a NASA study, it is not weather and climatic factors that are responsible for groundwater depletion in some of the northwestern states of India ...
- Driving new changes in Asian irrigation
- Without major reforms and innovations in the way water is used in agriculture, many developing countries will face severe food shortages in future, warns a new ...
- Finding a quotient of happiness
- The experience of small islands can teach us a lot about living good lives at low environmental cost. Evoking the ‘falling man’ metaphor, Andrew Simms, ...
- Water people of Andes face extinction
- Those who outlasted the Inca Empire and even survived the Spanish conquest are now facing extinction due to climate change. Members of an ancient tribe living ...
- India shies away from setting fuel economy standards
- Delhi-based NGO Centre for Science and Environment has blamed the Indian government for dilly-dallying on setting fuel economy standards for cars, which are ...
- Tiger park goes 'tiger-less' in India
- Officials from one of India’s main tiger reserves – Panna National Park – have admitted that it no longer has any tigers left. Despite conservation efforts, ...
- Church of England's ignominious investment in India
- Church of England is taking flak from ActionAid and Survival International for investing 4.1 million dollars in Vedanta’s Niyamgiri bauxite mining project in ...
- Pakistani village shines in dark
- Use of solar power has not only helped villagers of Arab Goth in Pakistan to shun fossil fuels but also generate income through more working hours. Started by ...
