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'Without tribal society, environmental protection is incomplete'
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 14 (ANI): According to the latest report 'Composite Water Management Index -2018,' 60 crore people of the country are facing 'high to higher' level water shortage.
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India's declining biodiversity, a victim of over exploitation
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Bageshwar (Uttarakhand) [India], June 7 (ANI): It is a matter of great happiness; India is one of the 12 selected biodiversity countries in the world. But the worrying thing is that biodiversity is gradually becoming the victim of over-exploitation.
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Integrated approach needed to clean Ganga: Nitin Gadkari
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 23 (ANI): Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday inaugurated a workshop on "Ganga and its Biodiversity: Developing a roadmap for habitat and Species Conservation" and emphasised on the need of an integrated
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Cleaner Cooking Fuel for 300 Million by 2021 - Randeep Agarwal
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 23 (NewsVoir): Globally, there are approximately 1.4 billion people without access to electricity and 2.7 billion people who rely on solid fuel (wood, crop residue, dung and coal) for cooking. The use of these traditional cooking fuels creates several significant pr
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President Kovind reaches Madagascar
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Antananarivo [Madagascar], Mar 14 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday arrived at the Madagascar capital in the last leg of his five-day two-nation visit.
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New spider species named after Leonardo DiCaprio, Barack Obama
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 27 (ANI): A team of researchers has identified and named 15 new species of spider in the Caribbean after A-listers like Leonardo DiCaprio, Barack Obama and David Attenborough.
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Conserving pandas can boost biodiversity, fight climate change
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 27 (ANI): Panda is not an adorable animal, but a study has found that conserving them can also boost biodiversity and fight climate change.
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AOL slams NGT report on destroying Yamuna floodplain area
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): The Art of Living (AOL) on Monday objected the report filed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the damage to the biodiversity of the Yamuna River.
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Will hold DDA responsible if Yamuna's biodiversity gets affected: NGT
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday pulled up the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and said that it will hold the local body responsible if any damage happened to the biodiversity of the Yamuna river as it was the former which allowed the Art of Li
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Antarctica's biodiversity 'falling between the cracks'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 20 (ANI): The popular view that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are in a much better environmental shape than the rest of the world has been debunked.
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Nagaland Zoological Park emerging as biodiversity hotspot
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dimapur (Nagaland) [India], Mar. 27 (ANI): Blessed with favorable climate and a rich biodiversity, the northeastern province of Nagaland has immense potential to attract tourists from all across the globe.
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Majuli all set to become India's 1st carbon neutral district: Sonowal
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], Mar. 22 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched initiatives to develop Majuli, world biggest river island, as India's first carbon neutral district and as a biodiversity heritage.
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