A Hindustan Times and C-fore Survey: They cruise around on bikes, often travel on trains, dream of owning big cars, are still grappling with the concept of organic food and green products, have insatiable appetite for new cell phones and don’t care much for power saving  features when  buying appliances. That in a nutshell is [...]

The NEWS: Realising that degradation of environment is going to become a big question mark before human survival, a statesperson like Shaheed Benazir Bhutto first created an Environment Division and later upgraded it to a Federal Ministry. That was a period when environmental consciousness was slowly dawning on the people the world over in the [...]

WMO: In 1988, through a United Nations General Assembly resolution entitled “Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind” WMO and UNEP established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with the goals to: Assess available scientific information on climate change Assess the environmental and socio-economic impacts of climate change Formulate response [...]

Times of India: The sun glares down at the Himalayan temple town of Gangotri, located at an altitude of 10,300 ft in the Garhwal Himalayas. This is the home of the Ganga, India’s holiest river, whose physical source at Gaumukh lies just 19 km away. Looking at the river as it bounds off smoothly polished [...]

Times of India: Harnessing natural resources and safeguarding the ecology seems to have become a priority for most universities in the national capital region. If Jamia Millia Islamia is turning its reclaimed land into a green patch, JNU students have taken it upon themselves to reduce carbon emission and promote cycling on the campus. While [...]

Deccan Herald: It’s always green on the other side. So, on World Environment Day, how about crossing the fence, asks Arun Katiyar. Speaking about Sher, a Tibetan village, Daniel Goleman, the author of ‘Ecological Intelligence’, observes how when a home is to be reroofed, a willow tree is planted in the village. The willow tree [...]

Himalayan Times: The government has decided to make Singha Durbar — the administrative headquarters — a plastic-free zone. Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal today directed authorities to implement the plastic-free-zone concept from tomorrow itself. “From tomorrow onwards, plastic bags of less than 20 micron will be prohibited on Singha Durbar premises. The government will extend [...]

IEWY News: To help promote a better understanding on the concept of the green economy — one of the biggest emerging issues as countries seek to promote economic development, poverty eradication and the protection of the environment — the United Nations General Assembly is convening a one-day thematic debate on Thursday, 2 June. “A green [...]

Tribune: Progress in the environment sector remained weak during the outgoing fiscal year due to unavailability of funds. To make things worse the government reduced allocation of the sector from Rs3.5 billion in 2009-10 to Rs2.5 billion in 2010-11. The major initiative taken by the government last year was the implementation of National Environmental Policy [...]

The NEWS: COMMEMORATED every year on June 5, since 1972, the World Environment Day is a principal vehicle through which the awareness of the environment is stimulated across the world. It was started by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 and is hosted every year by different countries with a different theme. It was [...]

Kathmandu-ites have a dream. That´s no different from mine. And that´s a beautiful dream—a dream to breath fresh air, just like the air in the Himalayas higher up; a dream to touch and live with crystal clear waters all around; a dream to walk, sit and relax in green parks by the Bagmati or the [...]

Ecologist: Ahead of the release of the World Bank’s revised energy strategy, the Ecologist speaks to sustainable development advocate Srinivas Krishnaswamy about why despite huge gigawatt power projects, 45 per cent of India’s households still lack electricity Does India need the World Bank? Not really, if you are looking at funding from the World Bank [...]

Weather and environment go hand in hand, and what is bad for the environment cannot be good for weather. A balance needs to be maintained between various elements of the environment — air, water, soil and nature — to rule out gradual build-up to what could lead to future catastrophes affecting lives and property of [...]

Greenpeace: 19 years ago more heads of states than ever came together in Rio de Janeiro for what was termed the Earth Summit. They agreed on a few sensible things, such as that “the right to development must be fulfilled so as to equitably meet developmental and environmental needs of present and future generations” or [...]

Telegraph: Global warming has melted one of Mount Everest’s most-visited glaciers into a vast and growing lake which now poses a threat to villagers and trekking tourists, scientists have warned. A study of glacial melting in the high Himalaya found that the Imja glacier has melted from solid ice in the mid-1950s to a one [...]