Excessive extraction of sand from the basin of river Tamirabarani is affecting ground water table According to the directive of the Bench, each zonal panel will comprise a retired district judge, an environmentalist and a geologist
THE Madurai Bench has named the chairman and members of the zonal monitoring committees for sand quarrying on Wednesday.
Great effort continues to focus on ecosystem restoration and reduction of nutrient inputs thought to be responsible, in part, for declines in estuary habitats worldwide. The ability of environmental policy to address restoration is limited, in part, by uncertainty in the relationships between costly restoration and benefits.
NEW DELHI: Making an attempt to protect what is left of the floodplains of the Yamuna, activists of non-government organisation Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan have written to Delhi's Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna asking him to ensure that there are no further encroachments on the riverbed.
The activists are concerned that the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for its third phase of expansion is consideri
The report would now be sent to the Cabinet Secretary
NEW DELHI: The final draft of the report drawn by the Technical Advisory Committee on the Yamuna river development was approved at a meeting of the high-power committee chaired by Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna this past week.
The report highlights the devastating impact on tribal people of a massive boom in dam-building for hydropower. Drawing on examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas, the report exposes the untold cost of obtaining
Mumbai: The Union minister of state for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh is at it again.
After taking on his cabinet colleagues from the mines, coal, power and surface transport ministries, the no-nonsense minister is now talking tough to the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Rajasthan, both of whom are from the Congress.
SUCHITRA KALYAN MOHANTY
NEW DELHI
A DTC bus depot being constructed at Yamuna flood plain, near Akshardham temple, to ferry athletes and officials to and from the Games Village to sports venues has come under the scanner of the Delhi high court.
Filing a petition on behalf of an NGO, Tapas, environ
