Man and Animal conflict The tiger is in the news, and yet again for the wrong reasons. We have lost two of our national animals to targeted killings in two rich landscapes — Yavatmal (Maharashtra) and Dudhwa (Uttar Pradesh). The big cats were victims of human-tiger interface conflict. India is in a leadership position on […]
Read MoreSustainable development: SDGs are UN’s breakthrough, achieving them is people’s responsibility Three years into the breakthrough the UN achieved in 2015 by adopting 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), scientists have begun to find meaning and correlation of these goals with the 7 billion habitats of the planet. In all, 193 governments are committed to SDGs. Three […]
Read MoreIndia among nations that face grave danger to soil biodiversity: WWF Country’s high population makes it vulnerable to an ecological crisis, says World Wide Fund for Nature India’s soil biodiversity is in grave peril, according to the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas prepared by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The WWF’s ‘risk index’ for the globe […]
Read MoreIf the WWF Living Planet Report 2018 doesn’t push the world to act, nothing will One reason why the destruction in the name of “development” happens is that nature’s economic worth is invisible. Today, many economists are trying to point out that a nation’s progress should include its natural capital base and so there should […]
Read MoreIndia’s neglected groundwater crisis Systematic analysis of groundwater conservation methods must be conducted to forestall the water crisis Government encourages farmers to produce water-intensive crops like rice and sugarcane through increased minimum support prices. India’s over-exploitation of groundwater is contributing to—as stated by NITI Aayog—“the worst water crisis in its history”. Groundwater is one of […]
Read MoreAir pollution causing one death in ten among children: WHO As many as 6 lakhs children died from acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) caused by polluted air in 2016, accounting for almost 10% of all child deaths that year, according to WHO. One in ten deaths in children across the world is being caused by […]
Read MoreCSIR scientists have developed Less Polluting Firecrackers CSIR scientists have developed Less Polluting Firecrackers which are not only environment friendly but 15-20 % cheaper than the conventional ones”, said Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest & Climate Change at a press conference here, today. These crackers have been […]
Read MoreA marine ecological crisis in South Asia Across the globe, marine habitats are in a state of dramatic decline. According to a recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, only 13 percent of the planet’s oceans are untouched by human activity. The only unaffected portions are in remote protected parts of the Pacific Ocean and around the […]
Read Moreदेश के टॉप-10 प्रदूषित शहरों में 8 उत्तर प्रदेश से, कानपुर सबसे ज्यादा प्रदूषित देश के टॉप-10 प्रदूषित शहरों में 8 उत्तर प्रदेश से, कानपुर सबसे ज्यादा प्रदूषित, छुट्टी के दिन और सड़कों पर वाहनों की कम आवाजाही के बावजूद पूरा यूपी प्रदूषण के कारण हांफता रहा। देश के टॉप-10 सबसे प्रदूषित शहरों में 8 […]
Read MoreSustainability should be the core of our development philosophy Development and conservation are not mutually exclusive goals; Applauds India’s unwavering commitment to sustainable development; Presents the RBS Earth Heroes Award “There is a great need to rethink and redefine development. We need a paradigm that combines development with sustainability”, the Vice President of India, […]
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