Category: Environment

The proposed bird sanctuary at the Loktak lake in Bishnupur district, Manipur is facing stiff opposition from the villagers in nearby areas. A large number of residents of Thingnunggei village took out a massive procession against the state government’s proposal Read More …

  By Dr P Surat (Twitter handle: @psurat22) Faridabad, January 22 : A recent study has found that unplanned developmental activities and land use are reducing the evergreen forest cover and perennial streams in central region of Western Ghats in India. Read More …

The three day Flamingo Festival  started in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh on January 20, 2019. The area surrounding Pulicat Lake is considered a safe haven for migratory birds. Over 90,000 birds have come from far away places to the Read More …

Feature By Raghu Murtugudde Mumbai, January 18 : It has been reported that extreme rainfall events are increasing over India and widespread floods have increased threefold over the last several decades from an average of two events per year to six events Read More …

Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) on January 10, 2019 in New Delhi. It is a time bound national level strategy for pan India implementation to tackle the increasing Read More …

By Kollegala Sharma (Twitter handle: @kollegala) Mysuru, January 8 :Marine biologists at the Cochin University of Science and Technology have found that a heavily fouling mussel growing in backwaters of Cochin harbour could be a foreigner species. Comparing the genome Read More …

By Dr. Ravi Mishra (Twitter handle: @Ravimishra1970) Vasco-da-Gama, January 9: A team of researchers have unravelled the imprints of the sea level fluctuations and climate change that may have occurred along the coastal river of Saurashtra region in India’s west Read More …

By S Suresh Ramanan (Twitter handle: @sureshramanan01) Jammu, January 7 : A five-year study conducted in the Sundarbans region has found that raising water salinity level is threatening the habitat of Gangetic river dolphins. The survey was conducted in the lower Read More …

Railway minister Piyush Goel has announced that the Honey Bee plan in Assam that kept elephants away from the tracks will be expanded to other areas of the country. Mr Goel said that the initiative was started on experiment basis Read More …

India on December 29, 2018 submitted its Sixth National Report (NR6) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) . The report was submitted online to the CBD Secretariat by the Union Environment Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, during the inaugural session of Read More …

The Central Government has approved the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification, 2018 on December 28, 2018 which was last reviewed and issued in 2011, with periodic amendments to some clauses. The move comes in the backdrop of a series of Read More …

The Odisha Government is developing another olive ridley mass nesting site in the state at the Bahuda river mouth in Ganjam district. Around three km stretch of the beach from Sunapur to Anantpur at Bahuda rookery is being developed as a Read More …

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India launches the “Asiatic Lion Conservation Project” with an aim to protect and conserve the world’s last ranging free population of Asiatic Lion and its associated ecosystem. “The Asiatic Read More …

As per the National Tiger Conservation Authority’s (NTCA), during 2018 (till December 15, 2018) 95 tigers died in the country. Out of 95 tiger deaths, 41 cases of deaths outside tiger reserves have been reported. A total of 19 tiger Read More …