Environment vs Development! NCR’s green lungs under threat as Haryana fails to protect the Aravallis.On urban reality this week, we put the spotlight on the status of the Aravallis and what is the price the citizens of NCR will pay if we fail to preserve our forest covers?

An international study released recently has claimed that foul air is killing up to 80 people a day in Delhi. Strangely though, the city's government rather than controlling vehicles plying on the road, or looking at a long term solution, seems to be choosing roads over trees. Anjilee Istwal reports.

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Planting a tree is not just digging the soil and planting a sapling. The key lies in nurturing the planted saplings which, if done properly, will contribute immensely in increasing green cover and ensuring ecological balance.

 

This film produced by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) explores increase in flood affected areas in India and analyses the Himalayan floods. It presents an agenda for change and shows how the country can combat the growing problems of floods.

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MUMBAI: Every time a match ends at the famed Wankhede Stadium on Marine Drive, it's usually spectators who are held responsible for destroying the green cover in the vicinity.

MUMBAI: The state government has been careless in its duty to protect the flora and fauna of the state - as is evident from its move to promote mining tourism in Sindhudurg - but the Bombay high court has not forgotten its green responsibility.

In a bid to stop the unmindful assault on the state's biodiversity, a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice D Y Chandrachud has issued

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UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different.

Billed as wonder crop, the establishment of jatropha plantations on the ground in Tanzania has been far from successful, or, in some cases, ethical: a report.

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food production. A partial equilibrium model of a national economy with two sectors and two regions, one of which includes a residual forest, is developed.

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