Corn ethanol would get a larger share of the U.S.

Climate refugees, after losing everything, are increasingly migrating to capital Dhaka and usually taking shelter in large urban slums or other urban poverty pockets which lack basic services.

The government of the Tibet autonomous region plans to invest more than 3.5 billion yuan ($563 million) in 2013, 10.5 percent more than last year, in environmental protection.

Sangam (Allahabad): Even as Shankracharyas, seers and Dandi swamis along with akharas have threatened to boycott the next ShahiSnan of MauniAmavasya on February 10 in view of the "poor health" of the Gnaga, Mela authorities on Saturday claimed that about 2,000 cusecs of water is being released from the Narora dam every day the Ganga.

Officials here maintained that the Ganga has enough water to take a holy dip and if the excessive water is being released into the river, there are chances that all the 19 temporary ghats will be washed away.

The Forest Department will launch a special drive to increase green cover and eradicate lantana weed in the hill state. Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmauri today said the drive would initially start from Rampur and Chamba forest circles and later be extended to other parts of the state.

The department would also work on war-footing to remove lantana and other obnoxious weeds and plant fodder species for the benefit of sheep breeders and farming community.

The high annual rate of land degradation has assumed alarming proportions, draft report

Calling for linking the North-east with the National Gas Grid, Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi today called for a special package to tackle erosion effectively.

SILCHAR: Hundreds of bighas of Agricultural land and large areas of human settlements are being continuously washed away due to erosion of river Barak across Cachar.

The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) may carry out necessary protection works in the portion of 15 km in the downstream of the dam site.

The ongoing extension of the electric grid to the remote islands of Sundarbans will not only adversely affect the viability of existing renewable energy projects, but will also accelerate the proce