Kangra University Plans Botanical Garden At Dharamshala Campus
byDharamshala: A botanical garden is being established at Jadarangal ( Chamunda) in Dharamshala on behalf of the Central University, An expert committee has been formed…
Environment
World Bank Tops Up $ 400 Million For Clean Ganga Project
byNew Delhi: The World Bank enhanced its support for the Government of India’s program to rejuvenate the Ganga River with a $400 million operation…
The Lockdown Diaries (XI) – The Next Pandemic Could Well Be ‘Made In India’
bySo narrowly focused are we on the pandemic that two environmental milestones have gone unnoticed. One, the 50th Earth Day has come and gone…
IIT Mandi Recycle PET Waste Bottles Into High Efficiency Face Masks
byMandi: Indian Institute of Technology Mandi researchers have developed indigenous technology for manufacturing high-efficiency face masks from waste ‘PET bottles’. Dr. Sumit Sinha Ray,…
Our Solutions Are In Nature
by– by Sunita Chaudhary, Biraj Adhikari, and Kesang Wangchuk “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction.”…
QUO VIDIS
byAt no time in recent history has the future of humans and of the world they inhabit been so much talked and written and…
Forest Fires
byForest fires, each year, destroy millions of hectares of forests worldwide. Apart from an estimated direct loss of USD 3000 million each year, there…
Manali Records Best Air Quality In The Country
byManali: Pollution levels have fallen globally because of the lockdowns enforced to check the spread of coronavirus and people here are in awe that the…
Manali Mrs India Pageant Winner Recycles Household Waste To Create Decoratives
byManali: Winner of Mrs India 2017 pageant Kalpana Thakur is recycling hotel disposable waste and reusing it in making paper baskets, lamps, flowers pots,…
Fudged Figures, Solemn Promises, Disappearing Trees
byCaught up in the maelstrom of divisive politics, India is silently but surely sliding into an environmental abyss under Mr. Modi’s watch. The latest…