Environment

Consider policy on use of fire crackers at public places: NGT to govt

PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has asked the state government to consider devising a policy for use of fire crackers at public places during private marriage processions, rel

Publication Date: 
04/06/2015
Vishwas Kothari
Times Of India (Pune)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Noise Pollution, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Festival, Religious Beliefs, Mumbai, Pune (T), Noise Pollution Control, Health Effects, Environment
Environment

The human health and conservation relevance of food taboos in northeastern Madagascar

Anthropologists and ecologists investigating the dialectical relationship between human environments and the cultural practices that shape and are shaped by them have been talking past each other for too long: the one looking purely at metaphor and the other purely at function. Our mixed-method data analysis set out to explore whether it was possible to determine empirically the human health and conservation value of the local Malagasy taboo system.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2015
Christopher D. Golden, Jean Comaroff
Ecology and Society
20
2
Tags:
Environment, Religious Beliefs, Madagascar, Biodiversity Conservation, Hunting, National Parks, Health Effects, Consumption Patterns, Traditional Knowledge, Plague, Animal Diseases, Wildlife, Animal Products
Wildlife

Laws may be Framed in Support of Jumbo Parade

PALAKKAD: Union Minister for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar said that the government would frame laws in support of parading elephants during temple festival if such a move is necessary

Publication Date: 
28/05/2015
New Indian Express (Kochi)
Tags:
Kerala, Elephant, Festival, Religious Beliefs, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Western Ghats, Wildlife
Water Resources

To Protect Millennia of Faith, Modi Sarkar goes Back a Century

Green min using 1916 pact to allay apprehensions over hydel projects on Ganga

Publication Date: 
27/05/2015
Anubhuti Vishnoi
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Ganga, Hydroelectricity, Supreme Court, Religious Beliefs, Water Resources
Forests

Epic act: NGT battles for Kurukshetra's 'Gita tree'

Thousands of years after the epic Kurukshetra battle, National Green Tribunal (NGT) did an Arjuna act recently to protect the mythological banyan tree under which Lord Krishna is believed to have d

Publication Date: 
27/05/2015
Ajay Sura
Times of India (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Haryana, Banyan, Trees, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Religious Beliefs, Kurukshetra (D), Forests
Wildlife

BNHS against use of wildlife for religious and cultural practices

MoEF urged to reject suggestion in draft policy

Publication Date: 
05/05/2015
Alok Deshpande
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Wildlife, Religious Beliefs, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Wildlife Act 1972, Ministry of Environment, Poaching
Climate Change

Vatican convenes major climate-change meeting

Pope Francis has drawn attention for his progressive teachings on sexuality, contraception and abortion. Now he and the Catholic Church are tackling another contentious issue: climate change.

Publication Date: 
30/04/2015
Edwin Cartlidge
Nature
520
596-597
Tags:
Climate Change, Religious Beliefs, Green House Gases, Emission Targets, Public Participation, Italy, Climate Impacts, Poverty, Extreme Weather Events
Solid Waste

NGT asks council to treat puja material in 2 weeks

The National Green Tribunal, Western Zone, Pune, has given the Trimbakeshwar Municipal Council two weeks from October 14 to treat puja material generated in the town to curb river pollution.

Publication Date: 
17/10/2014
Times Of India (Nashik)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Nashik, Garbage, Religious Beliefs, National Green Tribunal (NGT), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Waste Disposal, River Pollution, Waste Management, Solid Waste
Natural Disasters

World Disasters Report 2014: focus on culture and risk

This year’s World Disasters Report focuses on culture and risk. The report explores the different ways in which culture affects disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation and how disasters and risk influence culture.

Publication Date: 
16/10/2014
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Religious Beliefs, Disaster Management, Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Environment, Health Care, India, Global
Environment

For the first time, city noise levels monitored for 24 hours on Day 1

For the first time, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), which monitors noise levels in the city during the Ganesh festival every year, measured levels for 24 hours on the first day of t

Publication Date: 
03/09/2014
Richa Pinto
Times Of India (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Mumbai, Noise Pollution, Ganesh Chaturthi, Festival, Religious Beliefs, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Environment

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