Rashme Sehgal
Low-salt, low fat paranthas?
The high calorie-diet that Indians love to gorge on may soon witness a transformation.
Food experts criticise GM crops
Global food experts have come out unanimously against GM crops declaring that there is no evidence to show that GM crops help enhance a nation’s security.
Man lives on tree to protect forest
A new “republic” has been established in India and it goes by the interesting name of Junglistan. Already 1.35 lakh people have become citizens of it and another one lakh have signed a petition to support the efforts of Brikesh Singh to ensure the India’s last remaining dense forest in central India does not get destroyed.
‘Recovered land must go to state’
Head of Goa Foundation Claude Alvares and other green activists are working over time to ensure that land recovered from illegal mining reverts back to the state of Goa.
MoEF says no to Adani project
Both the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) and a special committee of Maharashtra forest officials have rejected clearance to Adani Power Ltd.
MoEF involved in forest land scam?
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has been accused of allocating over 1.86 lakh hectares of forest land for mining without the consent of gram sabhas as has been made mandatory under the
German bank push for energy efficient homes
In a strong bid to promote energy conservation in the residential sector, German KfW Development Bank is providing a loan of euro 50 million to National Housing Bank (NHB) for refinancing housing loan
Protocol may see ozone recovery by 2050
The Montreal Protocol (MP) is the only climate change treaty that has been ratified by every country in the globe and is testament to the fact that nations can achieve complete unanimity in fighting c
‘Mining will hit tiger habitats’
Conservationists warn that indiscriminate coal block allocation will destroy tiger habitats of central India.
Geological Information System analysis whereby Coal India Ltd maps were juxtaposed against satellite images of forest cover undertaken by the Ecoinformatics Lab at the Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE) has shown that the allocation of just 13 out of the 195 coal blocks allocated by the ministry of mines will adversely impact the Bandhavgarh, Pench, Tadoba, Palamu, Hazaribagh, Simlipal, Chaprala and Indravati tiger reserves.
‘Bio-digester’ toilets fast catching up
The bio-digester technology deployed to produce eco-friendly toilets is fast catching on across the country.
