New Delhi: After Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh faced agitating students at Tata Institute of Social Sciences protesting against the clearance to the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India has promised to make a presentation to the faculty and students at the Mumbai campus.

NPCIL has also set up a committee under the head of the Bombay Natural History

Nuclear Power Corp

SRINAGAR, Underlining afforestation significant measure to regenerate degraded forests, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Tuesday called for large scale plantation under Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA).

One more biodiversity project at Sindhudurg in Malvan, Maharastra
RAMANATHAPURAM: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has sanctioned a community-based natural resource management and mangrove conservation project in Godavari estuary, Andhra Pradesh, similar to the Gulf of Mannar Marine Conservation Project in Tamil Nadu.

Speaking to The Hindu, Doley Tshering, Regional Technical Spe

Initiate measures to restore biodiversity: panel
Panchayats asked to maintain seed banks

Thrissur: The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) has called for banning farming with chemical fertilizers in the ecologically-sensitive areas in the Western Ghats.

The WGEEP, which is holding a three-day meeting here, said organic farming should be promoted in a big way in the Western Ghats.

GUWAHATI, May 5

It has been speculated for long but now experts have confirmed it with substantive evidence.

Give green signal to building project; All Acacia trees will be felled
Mysore,
The 15-member committee has cleared the decks for the University of Mysore to construct a hostel building and a building for the biodiversity and bioprospecting project.

The evironmentalists have saved eight major trees from being felled in the campus after a careful assessment of the area and the building projec

Conference convened by Agriculture Minister
Red category pesticides on ban list, Order likely to be issued in a day or two
Thiruvananthapuram A high-level conference of officials and researchers, convened by Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran here on Wednesday, decided to ban several red category pesticides and introduce restrictions on the use of certain yellow category weedicides and f

The European Union should halt the rapid extinction of plant and animal species by 2020 because it will cost less than trying to repair the damage once it is done, Europe's environment chief said on Tuesday.

Worldwide, species extinction rates are between 100 and 1,000 times the natural rate, the European Commission said in its latest biodiversity strategy.

It quoted research estimates that