Land Degradation

Addicted to Rubber

Long infamous for heroin, opium, and other poppy products, the Golden Triangle, the mountainous, thickly forested intersection of Laos, Myanmar (formerly Burma), and China, is now becoming known for another plant: Hevea brasiliensis, the Par

Publication Date:

31/07/2009

Author(s): Charles C. Mann

Source: Science

Vol:

325

Issue:

5940

pp:

564

Tags:

Land Use, Land Degradation, Soil Erosion, Agriculture, Plant Diseases, Plantation Crops, Rubber, Hydrology, China, Laos

Mining

Petition for immediate stop to new mining operations in the upper damodar watershed affecting a million people in 200 villages

Petition addressed to the President of India for immediate stop to 31 new Karanpura opencast coal mines in the upper Damodar Watershed in Jharkhand affecting a million people in 200 villages over an area of 300 sq km of agricultural and forest lands.

Publication Date:

24/07/2009

Source: INTACH

Tags:

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Land Degradation, Mining, Damodar, Coal, Hazaribag (D), Jharkhand

Mining

Nadora residents up in arms against mining project

Residents of Nadora in Bardez taluka are up in arms against the proposed mining project in the village.
Residents under the banner

Publication Date:

23/07/2009

Source: Herald (Panjim)

Tags:

Groundwater Pollution, Land Degradation, Mining, Mining Waste, Goa

Environment

Physico-chemical, biochemical and microbial characteristics of soils of mangroves of the Andamans: a post-tsunami analysis

The mangroves of the Bay Islands accounting for 18% (383 km2) of the total Indian mangroves were adversely affected by the December 2004 tsunami. Changes in topography, salinity and massive water inflow have led to extensive soil degradation and associated nutrient losses in these mangroves. The major

Publication Date:

10/07/2009

Author(s): S. Ghoshal Chaudhuri, R. Dinesh, T. E. Sheeja & et al

Source: Current Science

Vol:

97

Issue:

1

pp:

98

Tags:

Environment, Land Degradation, Mangroves, Biomass, Tsunami, Micro Organisms, A & N Island, Soil Capability

Environment

Sustainable land, water and biodiversity conservation and management for improved livelihoods in Uttarakhand watershed sector

This project paper seeks the approval of the Executive Directors to provide an additional Grant financing from the Global Environment Facility in the amount of US$7.49 million for the India Uttarakhand Decentralized Watershed Development Project

Publication Date:

01/07/2009

Source: The World Bank

Tags:

Environment, Land Degradation, Watershed Development, Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation, Public Participation, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Forests

Agriculture

Use of Sarasvati palaeo channels in reclamation of waterlogged areas of Punjab and Haryana

Irrigation of fertile plains of Punjab and Haryana has benefited the nation with increase in food production, there have been inevitable side effects, in terms of secular degradation of the soil productivity, due to the exacerbating problem of waterlogging and salinization of soils, which now affects thousands of hectares of agricultural land.

Publication Date:

01/07/2009

Author(s): R N Athavale

Source: Asian Agri-History

Vol:

13

Issue:

3

pp:

215

Tags:

Land Degradation, Soil Salinisation, Waterlogging, Land Reclamation, Agriculture, Saraswati, Irrigation, Drainage, Haryana, Punjab

Mining

Court raps Sesa Goa for dumping mine rejects

The Bombay High Court at Goa on Wednesday directed Sesa Goa to forthwith stop dumping mining waste near Advalpal rivulet. The Division Bench comprising Justice B P Dharmadhikari and Justice U D Salvi, on pursuing the report submitted by the expert committee, issued direction to stop dumping of mining rejects immediately to contain flooding of the area and destruction of paddy fields.

Publication Date:

25/06/2009

Source: Herald (Panjim)

Tags:

River Pollution, Land Degradation, Mining, Mining Waste, High Court, Goa

Mining

Growing number of quarries creating barren lands

HATSINGIMARI, June 19: A picture of emptiness is engulfing the fertile lands of Mankachar Land Revenue circle in Dhubri district on the outskirts of the West Garo Hills district in Meghalaya where agriculture is being badly effected due to the growing number of quarries in the hills.

Publication Date:

20/06/2009

Source: Sentinel (Guwahati)

Tags:

Land Degradation, Mining, Dhubri (D), Meghalaya, West Garo Hills

Mining