LUCKNOW: Reducing carbon emissions, planting trees and switching over to alternate sources of energy are the means for environmental conservation.

"Efforts to save environment have begun,'' said Rasik Ravindra, director, National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, ministry of earth sciences, GoI.

New Delhi: Alongside the Delhi government

Bangalore: A green Bench: this could well be a first in the legal history of the country. Providing legal space for green concerns, the Karnataka high court, in a notification on Thursday (February 19), announced the setting up of the Bench to exclusively deal with environmental issues.

New Delhi, Feb. 20: The Union cabinet is likely to clear the Nayachar project next week, but only about a fifth of the 250sqkm chemical hub will be located on the island.

The rest will be carved out of the existing industrial zone on mainland Haldia.

TIRUNELVELI: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) conducted an awareness programme on environment for bankers, NGOs and farmers recently at Tenkasi to sensitise the stakeholders on environmental degradation and the strategies to mitigate the danger.

UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is organizing a summit meeting on climate change next month where he hopes President Barack Obama will confirm a "sea change" in US environment policy, diplomats said.

Chandan Mitra

BY YUSUF JAMEEL
SRINAGAR

A recent decision of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) to set up a high-profile panel for ensuring the preservation of environment along the route to the 12, 729-foothigh cave-shrine in Kashmiri Himalayas has been widely welcomed by conservationists in Jammu and Kashmir.

Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Patali Champika Ranawaka yesterday said that Sri Lanka should endeavor to create one million green jobs in the next six years in view of slowing down of the world economy while making the country more eco-friendly in the process.

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CHENNAI: Over-exploitation of natural resources will lead to problems for humanity, according to C.K. Sreedharan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests.

Speaking at the