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Kerala biodiversity board to revive tuber crop farmingThe KSBB has proposed a Tuber Germplasm conservation programme in Onattukara in Alappuzha district to conserve and enrich tuber crop divers...
- Centre blocks govt's plan to 'gift' forest land
The ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) has raised objections to the state government's decision to denotify 129.87 acres of virgin f...
- Centre lukewarm to Kerala’s concerns on Western Ghats issue
In a move that could have damaging political fallout for the UDF leadership, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has categorical...
Veerappa Moily gives no timeline for implementing Western Ghats reportsVeerappa Moily today refused to give a timeline for issuing a fresh notification for implementation of a controversial report on Western Gh...
Kasturirangan report not legally maintainable: V S VijayanV S Vijayan, today claimed that the Kasturirangan report on the Western Ghats was not legally maintainable and asked authorities to reject ...
National biodiversity garden to come up in MunnarA national biodiversity garden, exhibiting rare flora and fauna of Western Ghats, will soon come up in the hill station of Munnar, a busy t...
Tamil Nadu lagging behind in management of biodiversity: NBATamil Nadu, home to several rare flora and fauna, is lagging behind many other states in implementing the National Biological Diversity Act...
Expert Committee on Kasthurirangan to submit report soon: Oommen Chandy"The Expert Committee has completed its hearing and evidence taking... they will submit the report in two to three days time, Chandy said.
Western Ghats region prone to disaster if conservation is delayed: Madhav Gadgil, leading ecologist"The natural forest cover in the region has dwindled to 7%. Most rivers have dried up and waters are contaminated. Hills are disappearing d...
- Kerala State Biodiversity Board mulls ways to save Sasthamkotta Lake
KSBB chairman R V Varma said that the government plans to empower the BMC with the support of the revenue and police officials. The untreat...
Kerala CM says no to BT brinjalKerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan on Tuesday strongly opposed any move to introduce Bt brinjal.
- Why flowers bloom late in Kerala and birds breed early
Cassia fistula, or the kani konna, the yellow flower associated with Vishu celebrations in Kerala, bloomed so late last year that it couldn...
- Kerala conducts survey on birds
Kerala govt has launched an ambitious ornithological survey, following the footprints of renowned ornithologist Salim Ali, who undertook th...
- Sabarimala rail project ecologically unviable
The long-cherished railway line to the famous Sabarimala hill shrine seems to have hit a roadblock with an environmental study finding it e...
- Experts cast doubts over GM crops' role in inflation control
Genetically modified (GM) crops do not help increase the production level and therefore are not an effective solution to check inflation th...
- GM crops not the solution for fighting inflation: Experts
Genetically modified crops do not help increase the production level and therefore are not an effective solution to check inflation that ha...
- Honey bee research project for seven states
National Resource Development Board of Department of Biotechnology has sanctioned a network project "Morphometry and Phylogeography of hone...