Villagers fear adverse effect on agriculture operations
VIRUDHUNAGAR: Collector M. Balaji has instructed the officials of Madras Cements Limited (MCL) to take up various confidence building measures to clear environmental concerns of the people of eight panchayats in and around R.R.

AHMEDABAD: Chief minister Narendra Modi's book on global warming, 'Convenient Action - Gujarat's Response to Challenges of Climate change', has selective information and data to defend Gujarat's development model.

Environment activist Rohit Prajapati of NGO Paryavaran Mitra says he has reviewed the book and found it ignores the irreversible environmental degradation in the state.

CUDDALORE: Collector V. Amuthavalli has fixed a target of planting as many as two lakh saplings across the district before August 15.

She said this after planting a sapling at the Cuddalore headquarters government hospital here on Tuesday.

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As the number of vehicles in the city continues to see a sharp rise, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to gather accurate data on the quality of air that Mumbaikars breathe. While the civic body earlier depended on three mobile vans that monitored the air quality at three major traffic junctions in the city, it will now invest in six automatic air monitoring systems.

A highly encouraging scenario during the next decade in the renewable and non-conventional energy sector was projected for Rajasthan at a conference on

KARUR: The People's Livelihood Movement has decided to undertake a bicycle campaign covering the district to create awareness among the masses of the ill-effects of industrial pollution choking the river Amaravathy on July 9 and 10.

The movement has joined hands with the Amaravathy Ecology Conservation Movement to highlight the need to stop polluting the river and the lands irrigated by it.

Pollution, debris choking the once pristine water body The Subramanyapura Lake is on the death row with the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) turning a blind eye to builders letting sewage into it. neglected: The Subramanyapura Lake has been reduced to a dumping yard.

PANJIM: Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Ashwani Kumar on Sunday said that the ministry aims to cover over 14 lakh fishermen, who would be able to get the prediction of weather forecast via short messaging service (SMS) and voice mail facility, in next five years.
Addressing media persons, Kumar said ministry through Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has introduced a servic

The state government plans to create 10,000 green jobs in the environment sector in the next one year by introducing certificate courses in waste water management.
There is a shortage of trained operators in the around 8,000 water recycling
plants in public as well as the private sector.

A laboratory on the premises of the Shibpur botanical garden has been dumping waste in a corner, turning the compound into a toxic wasteland.

The chemical waste is polluting the soil and water bodies of Asia