On the eve of the World Biodiversity Day, which will be observed on Sunday, city-based environmentalists and activists raised their concerns about Pune

KOCHI: Thousands of fish washed up dead overnight in the Periyar just below the Pathalam bund on Thursday morning. It could be due to the high-level of pollution in the river, say environmentalists.

Environmentalists Say Hike Will Raise Demand For Diesel, Increasing Emissions

New Delhi: The petrol price hike has had car owners fretting but environmentalists too have started raising their voice against what they call an indirect incentivisation of diesel. The move to make petrol more expensive will only push more people to go in for diesel vehicles, they claim.

JAIPUR: Despite an order from the Central Empowered Committee earlier in the year banning all construction work at the Ranthambore tiger reserve, a huge canal is being dug threatening to affect its ecological balance.

As environmentalists raised questions over the construction, the state government sprang into action on Saturday.

The Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, has asked officials to take a middle path regarding the Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary boundary reduction issue by protecting the interest of locals as well as protecting the lake ecology. The State Board for Wildlife, which met on Tuesday, could not arrive at a concrete solution for the demand of reducing the contour levels from +5 to +3.

Agartala, Three of the Northeast

Three of Northeast India's most important ecosystems - Rudrasagar Lake in Tripura, Deepor Beel in Assam and Loktak Lake in Manipur - face serious threats from encroachment and pollution and urgent steps must be taken to conserve them, environmentalists say."Though all the three lakes are categorised as wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, the government has done little

The multi-crore Renuka Dam project is on hold, and 800 MW Kol Dam is also under the scanner of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. Hul (4.5 M), a private sector project in Chamba, is witnessing daily protests by locals seeking scrapping of all the clearances given to it.

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

KOCHI: The student community voiced their protest against the use of Endosulfan pesticide here on Monday.

Several youngsters participated in a dharna held in front of the Gandhi Bhavan near Kacheripady here in the morning. They raised slogans against those advocating the use of the harmful pesticide.