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City maidans must not be perks for a fewDelhi High Court's strong comments highlight the critical value of city open spaces. These green areas are essential for clean air and ecol...- Bengaluru's water crisis is set to deepen as K'taka struggles with depleting resources, businesses hitKarnataka, particularly Bengaluru, is grappling with a severe water crisis, exacerbated by erratic monsoon patterns and rapid urbanization....
- Greening Conundrum: You're planting trees to fight climate change but are you doing it the right way?Then there is the question of the kind of trees to plant. “Many tree planting drives are often of limited use if we have no mechanism to en...
- Women writers’ festival takes on the cultural fabric of Bengaluru through its female voicesThe festival has an impressive line-up of firebrand writers and performers.
- How Bengaluru's crucial water source turned into the city's central bus stationDharmambudhi lake was an important water source when Kempegowda laid the foundation of modern Bengaluru in 1537.
- How Millers tank breach helps us understand recent flooding in BengaluruFor decades, old lake beds have become prime real estate.
- Planting a tree? You can access government's nurseries onlineThe Forest Dept will launch a project called ‘Hasiru’ that will put 6 of its nurseries online. People can place orders for specific plant s...
- Taking a trip down memory lane: This lake was Bengaluru’s first water source beyond its boundaryHessarghatta lake, located 27 km from Bengaluru, dried up to the last drop at the turn of the millennium.
- Plant saplings on environment day, wake up a year laterThe Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which claims to have planted 1.20 lakh saplings last year, has no proper data on the species...
- Efforts by locals needed to save public spacesUrban land use increased by 184% between 1999 and 2014 while vegetation decreased from 45% to 8.4%.
- Tree festival in Bengaluru to raise awareness about environmentFor the past three years, this event, which happens to be Bengaluru's largest citizen-driven tree festival, Neralu, has been engaging commu...
- A sustained campaign against half-truths is need of the hour for BengalureansFor the campaigners -mostly professionals -who have to work to make a living, it is a challenge to turn up every other week.
- BBMP to relocate 48 trees but experts warn against itWhile the BBMP itself is unsure if the exercise will work, experts clearly warn that relocation will not ensure survival of trees, especial...
- Bengaluru authorities may axe 2244 trees for infra projects: CensusThis is the finding of a tree census conducted by Prof Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli, both from Azim Premji University , and Vijay Nish...
- Nonprofits make sure tree planting isn't just a Photo-op'Say Trees' have just taken the first step in turning a garbage dump to an urban forest. Working with corporates, government agencies, vill...
- Ulsoor Lake: This man-made paradise is dying a slow and painful deathUlsoor Lake is said to be created by Kempe Gowda I, the tank was deepened by Lord Bowring.
- Bengaluru 's changing relationship with ecologyThe professor of sustainability at Azim Premji University looks at how the importance of nature has changed in people's practices over time.
- 40 bird species return to lakes in Bengaluru after Rajesh Rao's revival effortsRao had a citizen volunteer group in place and a fairly autonomous committee for each lake.
- Late night dumping shrinks Nallurahalli lakeWhen residents go to sleep, truckloads of debris and sacks full of garbage and slaughterhouse waste are dumped into the water.
- None to protect tribal rights in panel on forest resourcesMinistries of environment and forests and tribal affairs have jointly set up a 10-member committee to study and assess the impact of Forest...
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