In order to use tenanted land for setting up of projects for community or public purpose, the Goa government has introduced the Goa Land Use (Regulation) Bill, 2024 seeking amendment to Section 3 of Goa
Anthropogenic addition of bioavailable nitrogen to the biosphere is increasing and terrestrial ecosystems are becoming increasingly nitrogen-saturated, causing more bioavailable nitrogen to enter grou
Denitrifying bacteria and hungry plants do sterling work in disposing of the nitrates that we pump into rivers and streams.
Meteorologist and biosphere scientist Carlos Nobre of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research in S
It represents half of the world's rainforest and is home to one-third of Earth's species, yet the Amazon has one of the highest rates of deforestation : a report.
Ansupa Lake, one of the two freshwater lakes found in Orissa, is vanishing slowly. Another freshwater lake, i.e. named Saro, in Puri District, has already been wiped out from the wetland maps of Orissa due to anthropogenic pressure. (Correspondence)
The Supreme Court today again refused to grant interim permission to Chandigarh's controversial Forest Hill Golf Club and Resort for its commercial use but said that it will have the detailed hearing in the case in May to finally dispose it of. A Bench of Chief Justice K. G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran did not agree with the plea of club's counsel for lifting the stay on the commercialisation of the resort till the final hearing amidst a strong protest from the counsel of Punjab Urban Development Authority (PUDA). This was for the second time in a month that the apex court declined to lift its 2004 stay on the commercial use of the club as similar request was rejected on February 8. The court had stayed the commercial use after the Punjab Government and the Centre had alleged that a vast demarcated forest land was encroached upon by the club owner in violation of the Punjab Forest Act. The court was not impressed with the contention of club's counsel that due to the continued stay many of the members were quitting their membership as the Bench said if it won the case, they would in any case come back. The Bench said till the final hearing, the stay could not be lifted while ordering the registry to put up it for hearing in the second week of May. The club's new stand is that after a notification issued by the Centre on October 18, 2006, the status of the land has been changed and it no more was the forest land as many commercial ventures, hotels, resorts and educational institutions had been permitted to come up in the area.
There is tremendous pressure on the natural resources due to increasing population.
Landslides in Nilgiris are mainly due to rainfall, but human intervention in the form of deforestation and plantation has turned this into a calamity.
This report contains the "Natural Resource Accounting of Goa State' and the valuation of environment and forest ecosystem of Goa state. In this report basic concepts on environmental accounting and different approaches of valuation are described. More specifically report covers the valuation in the specific sectors viz., air, water, municipal solid waste, and forestry.
An evaluation of response of one disturbed, one rehabilitated and one mature forest soil in lower subtropic China to simulated acid rain (SAR) were studied using a controlled laboratory leaching experiment. Land use change is one of the important factors in controlling soil response to acid deposition.
