Environment

India is reeling under heat wave. Nagpur temperatures cross 47 degree C while half of India is above45 degree or so. It is effect of making 6 way highways cutting all trees on roadsides, poor farmers…

Rajasthan Patrika a Hindi daily (22nd May 2012); has pointed out that 1500 sq. km area of forests in and around Jaipur has been encroached upon. Out of this 700 sq. km has now illegal housing or…

The following, scary pictures are making it around the net at present: And here separating the fresh water: If we were to do similar with the air we breathe, say putting the earth’s atmosphere…

I have seen Mansagar Lake drying for several years. I have seen it stinking for several years. It was also used as place for immersion of idols after the festival season.  I have seen…

A cap and trade system for carbon dioxide has been a terrific flop; even proponents are leery that it is just another layer of bureaucracy and the only economic benefits have been of the economic…

Environmental pollution is “the contamination of the physical and biological components of the earth/atmosphere system to such an extent that normal environmental processes are adversely affected”.…

NEXT GENERATION BIOFUELS DEALING WITH ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY   ＜Ashwani Kumar ＞ ＜  Department of Botany and Biotechnology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 302004, India…

HALOPHYTES AS POTENTIAL FOR BIOMASS YIELD IN COASTAL AREAS OF THE WORLD. . There's a limited amount of fresh water in the world and more demand for it than the supply can fill. India has several…

A new paper by Natural Resources Defense Council says hydraulic fracturing (fracking) generates massive amounts of polluted wastewater in in the Marcellus Shale that threatens the health of…

Did an environmental issue disappear because activist groups got a check?  It would seem so.  The Natural Resources Defenses Council and Santa Monica Baykeeper sued the city of Malibu in…