Retired PCCF BK Singh explained that the Centre has been pressured by the states to redraw the boundaries of previously notified ESZs just to ease the concerns of mining and quarrying lobbies.
Nearly one-third of the world's population is vulnerable to flooding & this risk is expected to rise between 2024 & 2030 for all regions except Europe & north Asia, says Moody's report.
What was a grand strategy to create a parallel environmental structure for grievance and unclog the Supreme Court has fallen woefully short of its promise and potential.
In ‘The Great Nicobar Betrayal’, Pankaj Sekhsaria looks at the ecological implications brought on by mega development project that’s planned for the island.
According to the response, the CPCB received Rs. 422.56 crore as EPC funds between 2019 and 2024. Of this, Rs. 99.29 crore has been utilised for environmental protection activities.
The brown longnose skate has a long, stiff snout. It has not been recorded anywhere else in the world, which raises the concern that it may be threatened with extinction.
I have just returned from the electric crematorium. There were people, and then there were more. No formal invitation had been sent, the news travelled from heart to heart.
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