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Showing posts with label ENVIRONMENT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ENVIRONMENT. Show all posts
Saturday, July 7, 2012

IUCN RELEASED RED LIST OF THREATENED SPECIES FOR YEAR 2012

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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on 19 June 2012 released its latest update of the Red List of Threatened Species. ...

Coast Guard radar project may make hornbills extinct

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The Coast Guard’s proposal to install a radar on the tiny island of Narcondam in the Andaman and Nicobar cluster threatens to wipe ou...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

World Environment Day 2012 observed across the World

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The world community observed the World Environment Day (WED) on 5 June 2012. The World Environment Day is observed every year on 5 June to ...
Friday, May 25, 2012

National Green Tribunal suspended Environment Clearance to the Srikakulam Thermal Power Plant

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The National Green Tribunal suspended environment clearance to the thermal power plant in Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh on 24 May ...

Sustaining the Environment

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On completing three years in office the UPA Government recently released a ‘Report To The People’. The following achievements pertain to...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

World Wildlife Fund released its Report on Global Environment

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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in its report Living Planet Report 2012 released on 15 May 2012 noted that Biodiversity has decreased by an ...

Call for Indian version of World Migratory Bird Day

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Rejecting the celebration of World Migratory Bird Day at a time when no migrant birds could be spotted in India, a section of ornitholog...

Waste Management

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Pursuant to the recommendations of the Committee on Solid Waste Management for Class-I cities constituted by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Asia's first dolphin research centre to come up in Bihar

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With only about 2,000 Gangetic river dolphins left in India, down from tens of thousands just a few decades ago, the Bihar government is pl...

India's first common bird monitoring system

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India's first bird monitoring system for common birds was  launched by Mumbai-based Nature Forever Society (NFS), an organisation work...

Centre to rate states on environment protection

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With an increase in illegal mining, coastal abuse and rampant industrialization, the Centre now plans to rate every state based on their ...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Union Cabinet approved India’s National Communication to UNFCCC on Climate Change

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The Union Cabinet  of India on 12 April 2012 approved India`s Second National Communication to the Secretariat of the United Nations Frame...
Monday, April 2, 2012

National Green Tribunal suspended the Environment Clearance Granted to Posco's Steel Project

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The National Green Tribunal on 30 March 2012 suspended the environment clearance granted to Posco's mega steel project in Orissa in Ja...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Eco-Development Activities in the Country

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The Ministry of Environment and Forests is implementing National Afforestation Programme (NAP) for afforestation & eco-restoration of...

Forest Report, 2011

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As per the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2011, the Forest and Tree Cover of the country is 23.81% of the geographical area of the co...

2001-2010 warmest decade on record: World Meteorological Organisation

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Climate change has accelerated in the past decade, the UN weather agency releasing data showing that 2001 to 2010 was the warmest decade...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Climate Deal

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The Minister of State (I/C) for Environment and Forests Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan informed Lok Sabha today that at the seventeenth session of ...