Meghalaya

The main aim of this study are: to identify, map and determine the extent of vegetation cover and its condition in the coal mined and unmined areas; to find relationship between spatial distribution of vegetation including its condition and mining; and to assess the impact of coal mining on vegetation and to provide evidence for the hypothesis that mining influences the spatial distribution, compo

Publication Date:

01/02/2005

Author(s): Kiranmay Sarma

Source: ITC

Tags:

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Jaintia Hills, Mining, Coal, India, Meghalaya

India

Trees are our only livelihood

Meghalaya's west Khasi hills. He shares with Centre for Science and Environment media fellow P Madhavan his experience of the charcoal trade

Publication Date:

30/12/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20041231

pp:

0

Tags:

Deforestation, Wood, Trade, Charcoal, Meghalaya, West Khasi Hills

Industry

Bytes

smokescreen: As per a study by UK-based Lon

Publication Date:

14/12/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20041215

pp:

0

Tags:

Tobacco, Malnutrition, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Climate Change, Smoking, Electricity, Birds, Industry, Research, War, Nuclear Weapons, United Arab Emirates, Europe, India, Meghalaya

Food Policy

Food for all

The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food security and the evolving constitutional doctrine tha

Publication Date:

02/07/2004

Author(s): Sukumar Muralidharan

Source: Frontline (Chennai)

Tags:

Food Security, India, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Supreme Court, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Arunachal, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Orissa (Odisha), Punjab, West Bengal, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

Wildlife

Human-elephant conflicts in Northeast India

Human population increases and development in Northeast India have reduced and fragmented wildlife habitat, which has resulted in human-wildlife conflicts. Although species such as tigers (Panthera tigris) and rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) cause conflict, elephants (Elephas maximus) have become the focal point for conflict and conservation issues.

Publication Date:

01/07/2004

Author(s): Anwaruddin Choudhury

Source: Human Dimensions of Wildlife

Vol:

9

Issue:

4

pp:

261

Tags:

North East, Garo Hills, Forest Encroachments, Deforestation, Wildlife, Elephant, Wildlife Management, Garampani SA, Poaching, People - Animal Conflicts, Assam, Cachar, Sonitpur, Meghalaya, Anwaruddin Choudhury, Human Dimensions of Wildlife

India

RED ALERT in nuclear India

India s pampered nuclear power programme is losing steam. Uranium stocks are almost over; people won t let the government dig new mines; all projects are running late and new technology is almost impossible to get as decommissioning reactors is the trend

Publication Date:

29/04/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040430

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution, Pollution Control, Mining, Uranium, Health Effects, Nuclear Power, Compensation, Radiation, Occupational Health, Fast Breeders, Supreme Court, India, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Meghalaya

India

In a mess

What s gone wrong?

Publication Date:

14/04/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Meghalaya

India

Let them adapt

Customary institutions can lead if so empowered

Publication Date:

14/04/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Meghalaya

Mining

Status of water quality in coal mining areas of Meghalaya, India

The coal is one of the extensively utilized minerals in Meghalaya. Though coal deposits in the state is found all along the southern fringe of Shillong plateau, Jaintial Hills District is a major producer of coal.

Publication Date:

19/03/2004

Author(s): Sumarlin Swer, O. P. Singh

Source: Indian School of Mines

Tags:

Jaintia Hills, Mining, Water Resources, Water Quality, Coal, Meghalaya