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  • Manual scavenging is inhumane: SC
    Supreme Court question authorities on why manual scavenging still prevails Taking note of four to five deaths every month due to manual scavenging, the Supreme Court came down heavily on the government for failing to provide protective gear to people engaged in manual scavenging and cleaning of sew...
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  • Aerosols increase drought severity over the Indian subcontinent
    Pune, September 05 (India Science Wire): A team of atmospheric scientists from India, USA and Canada have found that aerosols in the atmosphere can increase the severity of droughts over the Indian subcontinent by as much as 17 per cent during El Nino years. The team led by Dr. Suvarna S. Fadnavis...
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  • India to restore 5 million hectares of degraded land by 2030
    Ahead of UNCCD COP14 in Delhi this week, India pledges to restore 5 million hectares of degraded land by 2030 For the first time, India is hosting the 14th Conference of Parties (COP 14) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) from September 2nd to the 13th in New Delhi.&...
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  • Hydropower in the Himalayas: Potential and risks
    Worldwide, the demand for energy has risen significantly and quickly, leading to serious impacts on environmental sustainability and hindering global efforts to mitigate climate change. Hydropower, a leading renewable option has the additional benefits of water storage for agriculture and other uses...
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  • Jal Shakti Abhiyan hits ground rolling as India ranks 13th most water-stressed country in the world
     Over 3.5 lakh water conservation measures taken up in a single month as nationwide Jal Shakti Abhiyan hits ground In a countrywide effort to enhance water security, especially in water stressed districts, the Centre initiated Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA) has reported over 3.5 lakh water conservat...
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  • Global freshwater fish species under grave threat: IUCN
    Alarming decline in global freshwater fish species: IUCN The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List reports an alarming decline in global freshwater fish species. Over half of Japan’s endemic freshwater fishes and more than a third of freshwater fish in Mexico are faci...
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  • Tibetan rivers and impending water crisis in India
    Apart from the Brahmputra, there are three rivers flowing from Tibet to India. China is already diverting water from Brahmputra. But how will China's control over the other three rivers affect the northwestern states of India?
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  • Revolutionising coastal monitoring, one social media photo at a time
    A citizen science project led by UNSW engineers in Sydney, Australia is leveraging thousands of crowd-sourced photos from social media, helping create new insights into how beaches respond to changing weather and wave conditions, and extreme storms – and now a new study has shown the program to be...
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  • Drought advisory issued to western and southern states
    Centre issues drought advisory to six states Taking note of water levels dipping in dams to a critical level, the Centre has issued a drought advisory to Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu. The advisory recommends the states to use water for drinking purpose o...
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  • Cyclone Fani ravages Odisha's ecological hotspots
    Odisha's ecological hotspots severely affected by cyclone Cyclone Fani that battered the state on May 3 has left two of Odisha's ecological hotspots-- Lake Chilka and Balukhand-Konark wildlife sanctuary--in a crisis. The Chilika lake, which had two mouths earlier, has two more now due to wave energ...
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  • Only 37 percent of world’s long rivers free flowing
    A little over a third of the world's 246 long rivers remain free-flowing, as per a study by a team of 34 international researchers, including those from McGill University in Canada and World Wildlife Fund India. The study, which assessed the connectivity status of 12 million kilometres of rivers wor...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 4 months 2 weeks agoread more
  • Call For Entries: 7th Woodpecker International Film Festival 2019
    Call For Entries - 2019 Film Categories: Environmental Challenges, Terrorism, Crime & Violence, Art & Culture, Food & Travel, Forest & Wildlife, Gender, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Children Films, Films on Corporate Social Responsibility, Films on Disability, Films on North East, Livelihoo...
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  • Cyclone Fani hits Odisha, 35 dead
    Cyclone Fani, strongest to hit India in 20 years, causes widespread destruction in Odisha Cyclone Fani, that made its landfall in Odisha on May 4, has caused widespread destruction in the coastal parts of the state, with Puri being the worst hit. The death toll has risen to 35 in the state and seve...
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  • IMD predicts near-normal monsoon this year
    India could witness near-normal monsoon this season: IMD The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that this year, the rainfall in the four-month season from June to September is likely to be 96 percent of the 50-year average of 89 cm with a model error of +/-5 percent. As per IMD, th...
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  • Call for abstracts for the Water Future Conference, Bengaluru
    About the conference:  The conference will address the current state of global water resource challenges, future pathways and scenarios, and different technological, institutional solutions to accelerate the implementation of water-related Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda targ...
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  • UN Environment Assembly adopts India's two resolutions
    UN Environment Assembly adopts resolutions on single-use plastics, nitorgen management piloted by India The environment ministry has informed that at the fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), two resolutions piloted by India on single-use plastics and sustainab...
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  • SC orders forced eviction of tribals, forest dwellers
    Forced eviction ordered for more than one million tribals and forest-dwellers After the government failed to defend the Forest Rights Act, the Supreme Court has ordered forced eviction of more than 1,000,000 tribal and other forest-dwelling households from forestlands across 16 states. The order wi...
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  • Only 31 pc big projects done under AIBP
    In a decade, only a quarter of centrally funded major to medium irrigation schemes completed: Report As per the government's audit report, between 2008-17, only 31 percent of 201 big projects and 71 percent of 11,291 minor schemes have been completed under the accelerated irrigation benefit program...
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  • Only few nations working to fight climate change: COP24
    Most nations lack the political will to fight climate change: COP24 According to a recent report, Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2019, released by Germanwatch and the NewClimate Institute at the 24th Conference of Parties (COP 24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Chang...
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  • NGT takes Karnataka to task over lake clean-up
    Put aside Rs 500 crore for lake clean-up: NGT to Karnataka government Taking note of the authorities' neglect of pollution in Bellandur and Varthur lakes, the National Green Tribunal has ordered the Karnataka government to put aside Rs 500 crore towards the cleaning up of these lakes. The tribunal ...
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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-09-24 13:08
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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-09-10 12:24
Study finds aerosols - suspended fine solid or liquid matter in the atmosphere - are adding to El Nino, which already deters the Indian monsoon.

Pune, September 05 (India Science Wire): A team of atmospheric scientists from India, USA and Canada have found that aerosols in the atmosphere can increase the severity of droughts over the Indian subcontinent by as much as 17 per cent during El Nino years.

The team led by Dr. Suvarna S. Fadnavis of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune has reported this in a new study published in Scientific Reports.

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Ahead of UNCCD COP14 in Delhi this week, India pledges to restore 5 million hectares of degraded land by 2030

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-08-21 23:01
Study highlights significant hydropower opportunities in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.

Worldwide, the demand for energy has risen significantly and quickly, leading to serious impacts on environmental sustainability and hindering global efforts to mitigate climate change. Hydropower, a leading renewable option has the additional benefits of water storage for agriculture and other uses.

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Alarming decline in global freshwater fish species: IUCN

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Posted Date : Thu, 2019-06-27 11:35

Apart from the Brahmputra, there are three rivers flowing from Tibet to India. China is already diverting water from Brahmputra. But how will China's control over the other three rivers affect the northwestern states of India?

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Posted Date : Fri, 2019-05-31 15:25
A citizen science project led by engineers from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, is using crowd-sourced photos to understand changing coastlines.

A citizen science project led by UNSW engineers in Sydney, Australia is leveraging thousands of crowd-sourced photos from social media, helping create new insights into how beaches respond to changing weather and wave conditions, and extreme storms – and now a new study has shown the program to be nearly as accurate and effective as professional shoreline monitoring equipment.

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Centre issues drought advisory to six states

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Dr. Akhilesh Gupta , head of the climate change programme at DST. Image source: India Science Wire
Saturday, 28 September 2019 16:27
Climate vulnerability map of India coming soon
This variety of bajra has extended whiskers on its seeds when on the plant. This prevented the birds from eating it. Growing bajra in Pandutalav became possible only when Majlis could lay its hands on this variety. (Image: Majlis)
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Return of the pearl millet
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Groundwater markets flourish in peri-urban Hyderabad
From left to right - Siddharth Krishnan (ATREE), David Groenfeldt (Water Culture Institute), Sara Ahmed (University of Cambridge), Veena Srinivasan (ATREE), KJ Joy (SOPPECOM)
Thursday, 26 September 2019 15:57
Applying ethics to water management, to ensure equity in access to all