Govt assures a new CZMP with people’s views
Plan to be drafted by Environment Department in consultation with CZMA, GSPCB, scientists PORVORIM: In a major victory to the people, the State government on Tuesday announced it woud draft a fresh
Herald (Panjim)
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PMC embarks on operation clean up at St Inez nullah
St Inez nullah, the eyesore of Panjim city, Goa is undergoing Operation Clean Up as Panjim Municipal Council has begun clearing all floating garbage to facilitate flow of water along the 3.7 kms
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Trees along Fatorda route get temporary reprieve from court
Dozens of fully grown up trees lining on both sides of the road from the Sessions Court building to Fatorda junction in Goa got a temporary lease of life as a Margao civil court has ordered to
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Air pollution and health hazard
The Margao Municipal Corporation is dumping huge quantities of unsorted garbage which include, decomposable waste, polythene, PVC waste, hospital waste including mercury based broken instruments and
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ICAR proposes carbon trading
The next horizon in field of environmental management will possibly be carbon trading, which in technical parlance is called "trading in green house gases". Deputy director General of Indian Council
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Malnutrition, the silent stalker
UNICEF reports show that 55 per cent children in India suffer from malnutrition. The seriousness of the malnutrition factor, which UNICEF terms as 'the silent emergency' can be assessed from the fact
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Disposal of Garbage
The problem or rather the challenge of garbage disposal continues to defy solution. This is dramatised by the report that the Sonsodo garbage dump in Margao in Goa is full and the civic authorities
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Mud excavation at Sancoale fall in green belt: Panch
A panch member of Sancoale village panchayat Simon Carvolho in Goa in a press note circulated here today alleged that the area where alleged large scale excavation of hills along Cortalim-Vasco road
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PWD seeks time for filing reply to notice on tree cutting
The Goa State and the Public Works Department has sought time to file reply to the show cause notices issued by a Civil Court in respect of cutting and felling of trees along the stretch of road for
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India: Fighting Filariasis
It remains undetected for years and has flourished unchecked for many more. It is also known to cause unimaginable - and completely avoidable - pain and problems. Lymphatic Filariasis is a disease
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Scientists need to do urgent research in Antarctica: Fazal
Governor Mohammad Fazal has said that, scientists have to understand the cause and consequences of breaking the ice shelf which had survived the last ice age some 12000 years ago. This, he said