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Rare find: Frogs that make nests to lay eggs

Wednesday 2 September '09

Pigs may not fly, but frogs certainly do make nests. In a 20-km stretch between Wayanad and Coorg, three...
Algae choke Hauz Khas lake

Wednesday 2 September '09

The 13th Century Hauz Khas lake, which was to be developed as a tourist attraction as per a 2003 High Court order, is dying a slow death.
Year of the Tiger: India raises poaching alarm, Beijing cool

Monday 31 August '09

With 2010 being Chinese ‘year of the tiger’ — when demand for tiger and leopard parts shoots up — a team of Indian wildlife officials will visit China in to specifically discuss tiger and leopard poaching.
Pak backs India’s climate change stand

Sunday 30 August '09

Ahead of United Nations climate change negotiations coming up in Copenhagen in December, India’s stand that developing countries.....
Protected item on Taj menu under scanner

Thursday 27 August '09

The National Wildlife Crime Control Bureau is investigating the sale of rare sea cucumber as a menu item at the House of Ming restaurant in the Taj Mahal Hotel on Mansingh Road in New Delhi.
Solar Mission sparks dissent on funding

Wednesday 26 August '09

Even as the Prime Minister announced on Independence Day that India’s Solar Mission, the most finalised of the eight...
In volte face, ministry gives clean chit to Noida statue park

Wednesday 26 August '09

After holding the Mayawati government in Lucknow guilty of giving a go by to environmental norms for the statue complex in Noida, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has now given it a clean chit.
Intimidated, animal lovers approach HC for protection

Monday 24 August '09

Animal lovers who feed stray dogs have approached the High Court for protection through as many as seven different petitions.
Ramesh to visit China to forge common climate change stand

Sunday 23 August '09

In the first visit by a minister of the UPA-II regime to China, Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh along with a team from the Ministry....
Jairam writes to Gujarat, plans to translocate tigers

Thursday 20 August '09

After being the only state with lions, Gujarat may also get tigers. Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment and Forests...
Jairam plans to get tigers to Gujarat

Wednesday 19 August '09

After being the only state with lions, Gujarat may also get tigers. Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has written to Gujarat....
Yamuna clean-up in a mighty row

Wednesday 19 August '09

Who is responsible for the filth in the Yamuna? Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit says no work is getting done because too many government agencies are meddling with the river...
Selling bird’s nest soup to save this bird: there’s a change in law

Tuesday 18 August '09

To save a bird, its nest will now be sold. In an unusual conservation strategy, the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) has delisted the Edible Nest Swiftlet....
No alarming glacier retreat, none in 2009, says MoEF study

Sunday 16 August '09

While the threat of Himalayan glaciers receding remains, a new review has shown that there was no retreat in 2009 and no “alarming” decline otherwise.
Maya statue complex: satellite data finds forest, Noida doesn’t

Thursday 13 August '09

Satellite data of the Forest Survey of India between 2001 and 2007 has found there were 21 hectares of forest area in Noida — the very spot where trees were felled by the UP government to raise a statue complex.
MCD head office Town Hall India’s most polluted, says ministry study

Wednesday 12 August '09

The air around Delhi’s Town Hall — the seat of the Capital’s Mayor and 271 other lawmakers — is the most poisonous in the country.
Bhalaswa: once there was a lake

Tuesday 11 August '09

As per DDA, Bhalaswa Lake in North Delhi is an “adventure complex”, with water sports facilities like kayaking and boating and a golf course in the vicinity.
Don’t mix tiger populations: study

Monday 10 August '09

Even as tigers go extinct in national parks across India, a study has found that translocating a tiger from one part of the country....
‘Trees felled to plant more at Maya park’

Friday 7 August '09

Uttar Pradesh has come up with bizarre ‘environmental’ reasons for felling 6,000 old trees and converting the existing local parks into a BSP statue complex in Noida.
UP to SC team: trees felled to plant more at Maya park

Friday 7 August '09

Uttar Pradesh has come up with bizarre ‘environmental’ reasons for felling 6,000 old trees and converting the existing local parks into a BSP statue complex in Noida.
Nation to follow Delhi on green code

Thursday 6 August '09

Inspired by the Delhi government’s example of reinforcing the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) for all new government buildings in the Capital, Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has written to chief ministers of all states asking them to comply with ECBC.
Apex court panel to check Noida statue park

Tuesday 4 August '09

While gigantic statues have been brought to Mayawati’s ‘statue park’ in Noida, the battle between the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government entered the Centrally Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court on Monday.
Green run: President’s Estate feeds on biogas

Sunday 2 August '09

Going green starts from the top, and in the Capital the President’s Estate is taking the lead.
‘L-G moratorium to remain despite SC ruling on Games Village’

Friday 31 July '09

The Supreme Court may have given a green signal to the Commonwealth Games Village on Thursday but according to his office...
As rainwater flows down the drain, plans on to tap Yamuna surplus

Thursday 30 July '09

While many low-lying areas were submerged after the heavy showers on Monday, experts say the city would soon return to fighting with dry taps in all likelihood.
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