Total Forest and Tree Cover rises to 24.56 percent of the total geographical area of the Country Newsroom24x7 Network The current assessment of forest cover (India State of Forest Report 2019) shows an increase of 3,976 sq km (0.56%) of… Read More ›
Environment & Forest
MoEFCC seeks applications for “Internship Scheme”
Newsroom24x7 Network New Delhi: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has introduced and invited applications for “Internship Scheme” for students. The MoEFF “Internship Scheme” scheme seeks to engage students with Graduation, Post Graduation Degrees and Research Scholars enrolled… Read More ›
Tiger Corridors in India
Newsroom24x7 Network New Delhi: The National Tiger Conservation Authority in collaboration with the Wildlife Institute of India has published a document titled “Connecting Tiger Populations for Long-term Conservation”, which has mapped out 32 major corridors across the country, management interventions… Read More ›
Environmental infrastructure is under huge pressure in India
Newsroom24x7 Network India is ranked among 15 of the most polluted countries in the world It is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world Polluted rivers have doubled in number over the last decade in India… Read More ›
Impact of pollution is more on the densely populated Indo-Gangetic region of North India: EPIC report
Newsroom24x7 Network Forty per cent of India’s population that resides in the densely populated Indo-Gangetic Plain region of North India is impacted by more pollution from vehicular, residential, and agricultural sources and reducing particulate pollution to the World Health Organization’s… Read More ›
Is it time for Bhopal to deliver on water front?
Manoj Misra Any city, big or small is in many ways an organic entity. It consumes (energy, water and food) and it discards (air, solid and liquid wastes). A ‘smart’ (popular euphemism) city would endeavour to consume smartly (no more… Read More ›
Forest conservation, wildlife protection and the “Biased Scholar”
Suhas Kumar The other day, I was invited to a function in Bhopal where the world famous scholar Prof Madhav Gadgil was addressing a gathering comprising of retired and serving government servants, local NGOs, citizens concerned about ecology and a… Read More ›
Huge Rs. 4.50 billion tree plantation scam in Madhya Pradesh
Newsroom24x7 Network Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Forest Minister Umang Singhar on Friday, 11 October 2019, disclosed that his department has detected a huge Rs. 4.5 billion tree plantation scam linked to the announcement by the former Chief Minister Shivraraj Singh to… Read More ›
