Environment

Peacock Protection: A Popular Movement

Environment pratisrutimedia - April 11, 2018

Hundreds of peacocks spread their feathers, ready to dance and splash the countryside with colour in the Pakidi hills in Ganjam district. The hill...

Monitoring of Ground Water Level

Environment ppb - August 5, 2021

Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) is periodically monitoring the ground water levels throughout the Country on a regional scale, through a network of monitoring...

Detailed Project reports of LIDAR survey of forest areas in 10 states for water...

Environment ppb - June 25, 2021

Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar in a virtual event today released the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of LiDAR based...

Alarming Pollution Problems of Stone Quarries and Crushers

Environment Prof. Dr. P. K. Jena - October 12, 2018

There are many illegal stone quarrying and crushing units which operate in very unscientific manner causing a lot of harm to the workers as...

Earth Has a Hidden Plastic Problem – Scientists Are Hunting It Down Trillions of...

Environment Dr. Chitta Ranjan Mishra - October 5, 2018

The movement of the science is so rapid; we’re going to know a ton more in five or 10 years. We will then have...

The Centre would give a fillip to capacity development and cutting-edge research on wetlands...

Environment ppb - February 2, 2021

On the occasion of the World Wetland Day and as a part of its commitment towards conservation, restoration and management of India’s wetlands, the...

What’s in a Half a Degree?

Environment Dr. Chitta Ranjan Mishra - February 11, 2019

A new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report shows the impacts in the near future that can be avoided by limiting warming to...

Cases pending in Supreme Court and NGT

Environment pratisrutimedia - August 6, 2018

“The number of cases related to environmental issues pending in the Supreme Court of India is around 110 and 3573 in the National Green...

RELEASE OF WASTES INTO RIVERS

Environment ppb - December 16, 2021

Rivers in the country are polluted mainly due to discharge of untreated and partially treated sewage from cities/towns and industrial effluents.According to Central Pollution...

Flood Forecasting Stations

Environment pratisrutimedia - July 27, 2018

Central Water Commission (CWC) under the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation has been listed as the nodal organization for flood...