Full Coverage: Conservation

21.12.2007 Protecting endangered peatland areas will drastically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

20.12.2007 Located in a small hamlet in Boormajra in northern Indian state of Punjab’s Ropar district, a government school was adjudged as the country’s greenest school second time in a row. A Delhi-based organisation, Centre for Science and Environment under its Green School Programme, in a ceremony held here distributed the awards to 20 schools for their best environmental practices.

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14.12.2007 This week, the World Bank introduced a new multi-million dollar fund to remunerate developing countries for the value of their living forests at the UN climate conference in Bali.

12.12.2007 Magsaysay awardee Rajender Singh spoke to OneWorld South Asia, on December 9, in an interview after the culmination of nine-day long march to save the groundwater resources. His satyagrah on the banks of the Yamuna in New Delhi has been going on for the past more than 100 days. Following are the excerpts:

12.12.2007 A senior US Congressman will “travel” virtually to participate in the climate conference currently going on in Indonesia. This has been made possible by OneClimate along with Cisco to save the carbon cost of flying.

07.12.2007 A two-day national seminar on ‘Adapting to Climate Change’ in Pune, a city in Indian state of Maharashtra was held to take a dedicated view of global warming and its impact on water resources in the wake of projections about intense changes in the hydrological cycle. It has called for a review of five-year old national water policy to counter climate change.

03.12.2007 Faced with the shortage of fodder, the villagers of north Indian state Himachal Pradesh went against the government's planting of pines in favour of broadleaved species of trees, which could also be used as food for cattle.