First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Emissions trading in particulate matter takes off
Will the market-based approach to controlling air pollution prove more effective than enforcement methods used by pollution control boards? After failing to check air pollution through the usual enforcement
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Where is the gas to implement Gujarat Court order?
Fertiliser, power sectors likely to resist shifting additional allocation for city vehicles The Gujarat High Court’s order regarding natural gas allocation for compulsory usage in all vehicles in the State has been hailed by environmental activists and the State government alike, but the fact still remains that India simply does not have enough gas to cope with higher demand. In directions issued on a writ petition filed by the Gujarat Rajya Autorickshaw Federation on Wednesday, the Gujarat High Court directed the State government to compel owners of all vehicles registered in the State to start using natural gas — even if it be at higher prices — within a year.
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Govt oversight needed in religious tourism
Environmentalists are demanding greater environmental management of religious tourism. The death of 98 pilgrims in the Amarnath Yatra has highlighted the need to ensure better man-management in these ecologically-fragile regions. Already, three lakh pilgrims have visited the Amarnath shrine while the number in 2011 was around 7.5 lakhs. Environmentalist Prof. Vikram Soni of the Jamia Milia University points out that such large numbers of yatris are unsustainable given the high altitude and the danger of landslides hitting this area which could result in heavy loss of life.
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Kathmandu Dialogue Air Quality and Transportation Challenge in South Asia: An Agenda for Action
A joint initiative of the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi and Ministry of Physical Planning, Works and Transport Management, Government of Nepal. The Clean Air and Sustainable Transport Programme
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Shrine board reviews yatra management
CEO to prepare report on mounting death toll Srinagar: In the wake of the rising deaths of pilgrims undertaking this year’s Amarnath yatra, Governor N N Vohra, who is also the chairman of the Shri Amarnath
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SC bans tourism in core areas of tiger reserves
States to notify core, buffer areas The Supreme Court today clamped a ban on tourism in the core areas of all the 39 tiger reserves across the country, giving a major boost to efforts for protecting and
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Weather dice is loaded
When extreme weather events begin to occur with increased intensity and frequency, they should make us think During my weekly conversation with my sister, I told her about the unusual searing heat this June, the problems of power cuts and how we are coping in India. She, in turn, told me that in Washington, DC, where she lives, there was a terrible storm that damaged her roof and uprooted trees in her garden. They were fortunate that they still had electricity, because most houses in the city were in the dark. She also said it was unbearably hot because the region was in the grip of an unprecedented heatwave.
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Provide more facilities to endosulfan victims: Sunita Narain
Sunita Narain, the director of the Centre for Science and Environment, said here on Saturday that the endosulfan victims in the district should be provided with more facilities. She was in the district to attend the National workshop CONCORD 2012. Though appreciated the state government for giving the rightful recognition to the endosulfan issue in the district, Narian reminded the government that there were more to be done.
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Provide more facilities to endosulfan victims: Sunita Narain
Padmashree Sunitha Narain, the director general of the Centre for Science and Environment in Concord'12 National Seminar at Kasaragod, said here on Saturday that the endosulfan victims in the district
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The Kasaragod Declaration
CONCORD-12, the Consultative Workshop on Comprehensive Rehabilitation of Endosulfan Victims concluded at Kasaragod & called for the need to speed up the ongoing relief and rehabilitation initiatives. Read text of the Kasaragod declaration.