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News ScanA fifth of world’s vertebrates faces extinction
Efforts to save endangered animals seem to be making little difference, with a fifth of the world’s mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish threatened with extinction, says a new analysis More... Vedanta gets stop-work notice, faces legal actionThe Union government has ordered Vedanta to immediately halt expansion work at its troubled alumina refinery in Orissa’s Lanjhigarh, and has told the company to fulfil a number of conditions in order to operate its existing facility More... India, Bangladesh face ‘extreme risk’ from climate change: new studyThe Climate Change Vulnerability Index, that was prepared on the basis of calculated vulnerability of countries to the effects of climate change in the next 30 years, places Bangladesh and India at ‘extreme risk’ More... Indian govt, Idukki farmers still flirting with pesticides dangerEven as a committee of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants proposes a ban on use of the deadly Endosulfan pesticide, many farmers in Idukki have stepped up its use in cardamom plantations. Shockingly, India is opposed to the ban More... India: Special court for environment issues launchedAfter Australia and New Zealand, now India has set up a full-fledged environmental court to deal with environmental issues. The move is seen as a sign of a tougher approach by India to improving its green track record, as concerns mount about the impact of growing industrialisation on air and water quality, forests and wildlife More... Split panel puts Posco on pauseAn Indian government panel has recommended that environmental clearance for a $12 billion steel plant to be built by South Korean company Posco be scrapped. The plant in Orissa is India’s largest foreign investment project, but critics fear it will exhaust iron ore deposits in 20 years while causing lasting environmental damage More... ‘We are destroying life on earth,’ UN meet saysSpecies are becoming extinct at 100-1,000 times the natural rate, key habitats are disappearing, and more and more water and land are being used to support people, says a UN meeting aimed at finding solutions to the world’s environmental crisis More... Huge parts of world drying up due to land ‘evapo-transpiration’: studyThe soil in large parts of the southern hemisphere has been drying up over the last decade, according to researchers who have released the first major global study on “evapo-transpiration” More... Stop wasting food, to save energyResearchers have identified a painless way to achieve huge energy savings: stop wasting food. The United States alone could immediately save the energy equivalent of about 350 million barrels of oil a year if they stopped wasting food More... |
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