PUNJAB ENVIS CENTRE : INDIA

STATUS OF ENVIRONMENT & RELATED ISSUES

 NEWS-2009

 

News

 

December

• Doc delivers talk on noise pollution

• PAU releases five new varieties

• Kinnow glut leads to price crash

• Cold wave continues, temperature drops to 3.2 degrees

• Amritsar at freezing point; fog ahead

• Pest damaging trees, crops found

• PAU aims to usher in biotech revolution

• Hindustan Times Special - Sirhind Canal reduced to sewage channel

• Proliferation of Mobile Phone Towers-House sparrows on decline in region

• Kinnow production to touch all-time high

• Highly polluted: Ludhiana among top 10

• Bathinda sits on bio-medical waste

• Is appointment at Copenhagen deal 'justified': Obama

• Summit useful in getting India, China to take action: Aus

• Residents feel the chill as mercury dips

• Auto- rickshaws choke up city roads

   

• Adverse Effects of Temperature-Farm dept to raise matter at ICAR meeting today

   

• 'India's concerns on non-binding emission cuts met at Summit'

   

• Garbage plant gets ministry’s nod-Team says it meets all processing requisites

   

• About one lakh migratory birds reach wetland

   

• Medicinal plants distributed

   

• India to be held to its climate goals, says US

   

• Copenhagen failure loss for underdeveloped nations: Karat

   

• British PM says some states held climate talks 'to ransom'

   

• Mixed response to Copenhagen Accord

   

• Govt plans meet to talk energy efficiency

   

• Wild growth clogs lifeline of Malwa

   

• After Copenhagen talks, Ramesh to make statement in RS

   

• China 'hijacked' climate summit: British minister

   

• US can challenge India, China on Copenhagen goals: Obama aide

   

• Copenhagen leaves rich nations untouched

   

• Climate deal ’better than nothing’: Danish PM

   

• Oceans becoming nosier thanks to pollution: Report

   

• Mobile vet vans to boost dairy farming

   

• Polluting Unit: Villagers' fight for health revival

   

• 'Wen's talks with Singh, others led to positive COP outcome'

   

• After the heat, a face-saver-Copenhagen accord sealed after 7-hr impasse, to be turned into legally-binding global treaty

   

• How Obama’s surprise meeting with BASIC leaders helped...

   

• Livestock registration to be mandatory

   

• Inflation spurs sale of tractors by farmers

   

• H1N1 infection has spread in community, declares panel

   

• Coldest day of season in city

   

• PM: Future talks should be based on Kyoto Protocol

   

• India, China share ‘common perception’

   

• Developing countries close ranks

   

• Natural resource mgmt discussed

   

• Migratory birds make Sukhna their home

   

• India stands with developing world at climate summit

   

• ‘Need for an equitable outcome on emission cuts’

   

• Eco-feminist picks green thorns, solutions

   

• Punjab Science Congress from Feb 7 to 9

   

• Punjab to clean Sutlej, Beas

   

• Renewable Energy Projects-Punjab, Haryana seek sops from Centre

   

• Kyoto climate pact in 'intensive care', says Jairam Ramesh

   

• Small island states ask India, China to do more on Climate

   

• And the Fossil Awards go to...

   

• Natural disasters at decade low: UN study

   

• Polar ice may go in 5 years, says Al Gore

   

• In Summit chill, China-India warmth turns on the heat

   

• Rural job plan a carbon-credit spinner?

   

• Copenhagen: Over to Mexico City, 2010 GLOBAL WARMING

   

• Air Pollution-Residents’ panel to approach HC

   

• Bird sanctuary under threat of encroachers

   

• Milk yield of cows to get major boost

• Fighting Global Warming-Their Copenhagen Summit is in their village

   

• Developing countries boycott UN climate talks

   

• Koalas, penguins at risk of extinction: Study

   

• Dolphins choose UP waters to multiply

   

• Oceans turning acidic: UN study

   

• India flexible, but will not cut emissions

   

• Forest cover up in state

   

• India’s proposal on climate centres accepted: Ramesh

   

• India against amending Kyoto Protocol

   

• Draft pact seeks to halve emissions by 2050

   

• 17 tiger reserves in precarious condition: Ramesh

   

• Workshop on solid waste management begins

   

• Copenhagen Summit-India for legally binding pact on climate change

   

• Climate change worsened most years since 1980-index

   

• Climate change affected over a dozen of species: Report

   

• 2009 one of world's hottest years since 1850

   

• 'Crystalline sponge' can help capture CO2

   

• Recession of Himalayan glaciers part of natural process: Govt

• Reversing Global warming will lead to extinction

 

• ‘Climategate’ rocks Copenhagen

   

• Climate  talks begin  amid calls for action

   

• US boosts talks with move towards CO2 curbs

   

• Bad climate strategy, cries Oppn-Stages walkout in RS; no compromise on India’s interests, says Ramesh

   

• Climate pledges will make Earth warmer by 3.5°C

   

• Majority of nations want continuation of Kyoto Protocol: UN official

   

• Bio-medical waste storage limit 24 hrs

   

• Dolphins under threat at Harike

   

• College students raise awareness on environment

   

• Earth our real mother, Seechewal to tell world

   

• Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten 1.3 billion Asians

   

• MEET WARM - UP - Biggest polluters push for new climate order

   

• "It's like a bank balance, if you're not putting money in, you can't take it out."

   

• Strong global support for climate action: Poll

   

• Global warming may require higher dams, stilts

   

• India Inc recognising climate change risks: Report

   

• India sets clean air target

   

• Won’t accept binding carbon cuts: Ramesh-Spells out ‘non-negotiables’, hints at flexibility

   

• It’s raining snow in Himalayas-Raises hopes of more flow in streams

   

• CM seeks Rs 302 cr to check river pollution

   

• Noise pollution: A headache for Zirakpur residents

   

• Experts dwell on ill-effects of air pollution

   

• Crossing the threshold: Just 4°C hotter & a living hell called Earth

   

• India follows China, to set clean-air goals

   

• CM keen to provide safe water with Israeli technology

   

• Taking Stock: Central Zoo Team to visit Chattbir today

   

• Global Warming hits crop of flowers

   

• Throwing forest norms to wind

   

• City greener: Report

   

• Wedded to environment, trees are his babies

   

• CICU workshop on IPRs

   

• Glittering show on Global Warming

November

• Awareness drive on afforestation

   

• Climate Change-PM turns the heat on developed nations

   

• Environment ministry to rank polluted industrial clusters

   

• Tree plantation drive

   

• CHOGM to set tone for climate change talks

   

• Climate Change-India likely to declare carbon targets
   

• No emission checks without foreign funds, says China

   

• Nitrate in groundwater ‘above safety limit’- Courtesy subsidies on fertilisers

   

• Weather delays migration of birds

   

• Forest department’s efforts revive Sukhna Lake

   

• Punjab villages facing baby blue syndrome

   

• Battery-operated rickshaws to hit city roads soon

   

• The challenge in Copenhagen: Reshaping the world

   

• Dead Sea may dry out completely by 2050

   

• Meat waste guidelines to be enforced

 

• River dolphin is national aquatic animal

 

• Fish mafia lays siege to Harike sanctuary

   

• 139 tigers killed in India since 2006: Minister

   

• Reducing carbon emissions unlikely in near future: Study

   

• Warming's impacts speed up, worsened since Kyoto

   

• Sheesham, kikar trees dying across Punjab

   

• 28 mini power plants to produce 400 MW

   

• Nitrate pollution in this village `shocks'

   

• `Green building reduces impact on environment'

   

• Environmentalist remembered

   

• Planting trees only option, says Seechewal

   

• ‘Purification of environment drive’

   

• US pressure on climate change worries industry

   

• PAU to strengthen research on medicinal plants

   

• Farmers’ Woes-Declining yield causes worry

   

• SAS Nagar wins award fro Eco Day Celebrations

   

• Mohali adjudged best district

   

• Newer wheat variety seeds in short supply

   

• Plantation drive

   

• Dead fish: PSHRC takes notice-More dead fish found

   

• Tougher air quality norms unveiled

   

• Thousands of fish found dead

   

• Central pollution board officials in city-To take samples from Budda Nullah, treatment plants

   

• City Concerns-Lake along Sutlej river better option

   

• Made in Canada, for Punjab-Gurmukhi-based GPS system to boost farming

   

• World on course 'for catastrophic six degrees' rise in temperature'

   

• GLOBAL WARMING - India to sharpen focus on climate

   

• Ganga to figure in Copenhagen meet

   

• More Indian CEOs concerned about climate change risk: Survey

   

• Black carbon can't be linked to global warming: Pachauri

   

• Rural sewage treatment plant inaugurated

   

• Tips for managing mealy bug

   

• ‘Climate change has altered patterns of parasitic diseases’

   

• Future shock: By 2025, one-third of Punjab could go dry

   

• Body to register productive livestock

   

• 'Household kitchens contribute to pollution'

   

• Weak monsoon due to warmer Indian Ocean: Scientists

   

• PPCB gearing up for online monitoring

   

• Importance of green buildings stressed

   

• Two Mansa villages get special grants

   

• GMADA’s green move-Solar water heating must for 500 sq yd houses

   

• Workshop on waste paper mgmt

   

• Move to make GNDEC green, energy-efficient

   

• Seminar highlights impact of climate change

   

• National council to study environment assessment

   

• Seminar on water conservation

   

• Punjab's sex ratio improves

   

• ‘Not all J&K glaciers melting’

   

• RELIGIOUS MEET ON CLIMATE CHANGE - Sikh environmentalists join world's faith leaders

   

• Help inculcate scientific temperament in students

   

• Experts focus on water conservation, environment

   

• Cleaning of Budda Nullah a dream?

   

• Stress on use of technology to save environment

   

• Punjab geographers’ meet ends

   

• Climate justice’ to protect Himalayas

   

• Nature’s Own

   

• Plantation drive ends

October

• Expert expresses concern over Climate Changes

   

• Melting glaciers: situation not alarming yet, say experts

   

• Climate change meet begins, Day One sees heated debate on environment issues

   

• Cycle rally to create ‘green’ awareness

   

• TERI may be roped in for solar power projects

   

• PU scientists to study continental drift

   

• BADHA CAMPAIGN - Fazilka out to revive lake

   

• PM seeks climate change consensus

   

• THE CARBON BOMB

   

• Experts back PAU 201 variety

   

• AGRI EXPORT-Indian buffalo breeds make it big overseas

   

• Purchase agreement with 5-MW solar power plant signed

   

• COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE - Panel to study airline emission

   

• State to give 88 lakh tonnes of rice to central pool

   

• PSEB inks power pact with US firm

   

• 3 effluent treatment plants for Ludhiana

   

• Expectants, kids more vulnerable to pollution

   

• Residents pledge green Diwali

   

• Seechewal appeals against crackers

   

• Arrangements to monitor pollution

   

• Industrialists bend, agree to equip their units with pollution control devices

   

• Lecture on climatic changes

   

• Water conservation month inaugurated

   

• Cut soot, slow climate change: Scientists

   

• Water treatment plant inaugurated

   

• PM's Council on climate change to meet on Tuesday

   

• Irrigation channels to be overhauled-Over 31 lakh farmers to benefit

   

• Adulterated Milk Products-Seechewal backs Chawla’s drive

   

• Minister calls for conservation

   

• End of wildlife week at Chhatbir Zoo

   

• Punjab sits on dolphin project

   

• Workshop on bio-manure programme organized

   

• Wildlife Week-CAPE India holds quiz

   

• Climate change a major cause of child mortality: Study

   

• Environment Week begins at Indo Global College

   

• Dolphin is national aquatic animal-Union government chalks out major strategy to fix Ganga mess

   

• Solid waste plant at Patiala to cost Rs 40 crore

   

• ‘Vulture restaurant’ to save vanishing species

   

• Bio-mass power projects to use paddy residue as raw material, pay farmers

   

• Natural heritage of Beas and Harike to be revived

 

• Groundwater checking-PPCB told to upgrade instruments

September

• ECO-FRIENDLY - Green bags for anti-polythene Abohar

   

• Turned into pond, Sukhna clamours for attention

   

• Sex ratio up from 796 to 838 in Punjab, says survey

   

• DUMPING OF BIOMEDICAL WASTE - MC notices to PGI, 2 others

   

• Mixed response to decision on wild boar hunting

   

• World’s highest biogas plant commissioned

   

• Govt. for upgrade of animal husbandry department

   

• India to give annual climate report to UN

   

• Tap natural resources to produce energy: Experts

   

• Buddha Nullah-Principal secys visit sites proposed for CETP

   

• Green Ramlila

   

• Sites shortlisted for setting up effluent treatment plants

   

• Polythene paves way for smoother roads

   

• Government urged to generate power from farm wastes

   

• If we can’t protect Earth now then when,asks Lucknow girl

   

• Himachal industrial waste pollutes Sutlej-People in Nangal area complain of skin infections

   

• Youth Cong workers plant saplings

   

• Students march for environment

   

• Gian Jyoti students rally for greener planet

   

• Buddha Nullah-‘Convert’ treatment plant into CETP

   

• India ranked ninth in world tree planting

   

• India calls for check on illegal fishing 

   

• Biogas may end power woes

   

• Villagers help strengthen 5 km of Sutlej bank-Seechewal for people’s participation in development

   

• Chartered accountants pitch in for environment

   

• Experts discuss effect of climate change on wheat

   

• ‘Another green revolution is needed to boost agriculture’

   

• Medicos express concern over bio-medical waste

   

• Eco awareness

   

• Stress on introducing green buildings

   

• Ozone Day celebrated

   

• Administrator’s plea for ecological balance

   

• Punjab can produce  5 lakh mt biogenic silica

   

• Orientation Function-Freshers highlight climate change

   

• Birds prey on Pong Dam pearls, small fish

   

• Dam reservoir to be made wildlife sanctuary-Govt to issue notification soon

   

• Buddha Nullah-Treatment plant sites still undecided

   

• Tiger safari, Neelon park to get booster dose

   

• NIPER faculty bats for green chemistry

   

• Drive to enforce ban on polythene bags

   

• HP Thermal Plant-NGO trashes company’s claims

   

• Late spell of rain good for paddy

   

• Brick-kiln owners refuse to use fly ash

   

August

• Going green: Solar City master plan paves way

   

• Pest Management-PAU devises eco-friendly technologies

   

• Budha Nullah: Solid waste being dumped despite ban

   

• HP’s maiden thermal plant to hit ecology in Punjab

   

• UT figures among greenest cities of Asia

   

• PAU Notes-Environment everybody’s concern, says Kang

   

• Promote livestock profession, says minister

   

• Government shuts eyes to fly ash hazards

   

• Industrial Waste-Pollution team takes samples from 15 units

   

• CPCB member for biological treatment of dyeing units' effulent

   

• NSS volunteers carry out tree plantation

   

• PM Climate Change Council to discuss energy efficiency mission

   

• ‘Industries need to follow strict pollution norms’

   

• Cleaning of Buddha Nullah-Pollution board team visits Ludhiana

   

• 800 saplings planted

   

• Experts focus on micro irrigation system

   

• Green Earth awareness rally held at Payal

   

• GND varsity to monitor uranium in water

   

• Students take out rally to promote use of non-conventional energy resources

   

• Take steps to popularize solar energy

   

• India's environmental situation alarming: PM

   

• Buddha Nullah-Board active against polluting units

   

• `Explore renewable sources to counter power crunch'

   

• The danger beneath the gloss

   

• Scanty rain hits Buddha Nullah cleaning

   

• Sant Seechewal honoured

   

• I-day - Students vow for a clean, green city

   

• Effluent treatment society - Not joining body will draw PPCB warth

   

• Centre sanctions Rs 50 crore for Buddha Nallah clean-up

   

• Units polluting Buddha Nallah will be shut in 2 months: PPCB

   

• Water Pangs-After kharif, rabi crop to be hit

   

• PAU comes out with 3 vegetable varieties

   

• Gastro outbreak in border areas

   

• In gloom, Punjab paints a pretty paddy picture

   

• Central Pollution Board to inspect Ludhiana units

   

• Masses told to preserve environment

   

• 75,000 saplings planted

   

• Environment Pollution-Will not 2 thermal plants, oil refinery add to woes of Bathinda?

   

• Farmers switch back to manual weeding of paddy

   

• Gastro situation improving in Punjabi Bagh area

   

• Plantation drive at GCG-42

• Gastro Outbreak-Water samples fail test

 

• PAU Notes-Workshop on precision farming

• Mortality rate of cattle on rise during monsoon-Experts claim concentration of nitrate in stalks main cause of deaths

• Punjab asked to combat industrial pollution 

• Gastro Outbreak-Health dept returns over-chlorinated water-Could cause kidney failure, heart attack, warns Civil Surgeon

• Severe gastro cases go up to 63

• Religious leaders vow to protect environment

• India, China to cooperate over Himalayan glaciers: Jairam

• CLEANING WATER BODIES - Central pollution board seeks proposals

• Discussion on nationality, agriculture in Punjab held

• Kanjali wetland cleared of weeds

• ‘Set up panel to find cancer-causing agents in Malwa’

• Banyan trees disappear from roadside

• Bathinda tops cancer cases in country

• CLIMATE CHANGE: It's worse than we feared

• Land of five dying rivers

• Green drive in Patiala-14 lakh saplings to be planted

• Seeds of conservation sown in young minds at Sharda Sarvhitkari in Sector 40-D

• Cancer in Malwa-Uranium may not be cause: Expert

• Jairam takes a swipe at UK expert's climate views

• ‘Environment Week’ celebrated

• Exhibition on city trees held

July

• Kali Bein in spate, flood threat looms

• PEDA holds workshop on sustainable designs

• Punjab tides over dip, with 5.08 pc agri growth

• No change in stand on climate change: PM

• Conserve natural resources: Dr Johl

• ENTRE SURVEY - Sex ratio 874, up from 793

• Work to remove hyacinth starts, flood threat eases

• Experts reject report on uranium traces

• Samples taken from dyeing units

• Bein level dips as machines remove weeds

• PSEB wakes up to WB carbon credit benefits

• Sekhon asks department to remove weeds from Bein

• Punjab plans incentives to boost organic farming

• Choose environment over new gurdwaras: Jathedar

• `Every citizen must protect environment'

• Kali Bein faces flood threat

• 525 dried trees dangerous for commuters: MC

• Control Sutlej Pollution: Badal

• Land for organic farming goes to IIT-Field trials of wheat, paddy, barley and citrus fruits at Ropar brought to naught

• Booklet on environment released

• Vanmahotsav celebrated

• Effects of arsenic in drinking water discussed

• Climate resolution raises storm

• Punjab has only 15% certified area under Organic Farming

• Trees make way for multi-level parking

• ‘No new units with inefficient treatment plants within 15 kms of Buddha Nullah'

• Jalalabad asks politicians to  add environment to agenda

• Uranium Traces in Water-Experts rule out harm to health

• Talk on disaster mgmt measures

• ‘Go-green Run’ on July 26

• Weather office predicts more rain in region

• Harness solar power, we will help, offers PEDA

• Farmers being apprised of Intellectual Property Rights

• Waterlogged Muktsar goes deeper into debt mire

• Tree plantation drive begins

• Mini Secretariat to be made energy efficient

• FEATHER IN THE CAP - Village nurturing peacocks for two decades

• Consensus on ‘fair’ climate change pact-USA to collaborate in environment planning and regulation

• Doing our bit for the environment

• MC staff plant 400 saplings

• Each one, grow one, echoes at Mount Carmel

• Seechewal to take on ‘environment terrorists’ 

• Falling water table compels farmers to go for deeper tube wells

• Rs 7 cr for renewable energy institute

• Tree Growers’ Association to meet on July 29

• Saplings planted at PU Geology Department

• Final plan ready for a ‘Solar Chandigarh’

• Punjab, US company ink pact for solar power project

• 1,529 trees on NH-15 face axe

 

• Stalling of cleanup work at Budha Nullah-Authorities ‘misled’ top brass on demarcation

   

• ‘Avoid planting fruit trees on highways’

   

• Water level drops in state reservoirs

   

• Forest Dept to ensure safety of mynahs at Chandigarh Rly Station

   

• Tewari plants saplings to launch plantation drive

   

• Admn plans six theme-based gardens for Rs eight crore

   

• UT set to go solar

   

• Can volcanic eruptions counter global warming?

   

• ‘India needs to mainstream environmental issues in projects’

   

• Chemical Unit leak destroys 265 Acres of Paddy Crop

   

• Centre releases Rs 7 crore for biomass energy institute

   

• FATAL GENE MIX - Hybrid lions to be phased out

   

• World Population Day-Education key to check population growth 

   

• Weather monitoring panel at PAU

   

• 12 lakh saplings to be planted in Ropar

   

• World Population Day-'Family planning must to check rise in population’

   

• Punjab to enforce ban on polythene bags

   

• 4 digital rain gauges installed

   

• Move to set up wheat resource centre

   

• Chandigarh to plant 1.58L saplings this year

   

• Rs 50 cr for Buddha Nullah cleaning

   

• So that their newborns can breathe fresh air

   

• 1,000-MW power plant at Rupnagar-PSEB to set up gas-based thermal plant

   

• Sud opens Van Chetna Park in Hoshiarpur

   

• Vana Mahotsav celebrations hold no importance-Trees being axed in the name of development

   

• Efforts to strengthen production of nursery plants of kinnow

   

• Curb pollution in Nangal wetland, demands ex-MP

   

• Punjab Forms Policy on Tree Felling

   

• SAVE THE EARTH - Religion comes to environment’s rescue

   

• More power needed for pushing renewable energy

   

• 300 saplings planted

   

• Fly ash means better agri yield, no pesticides

 

• Changing course on Climate-I

   

• Nangal Wetland to be wildlife sanctuary soon

   

• Fish found dead in Sirsa-Nangal River

   

• UGC refresher course in Environment Studies

   

• Water conservation project fails to kick off

   

• Bhakra canal has 800 defects

   

• Environment meet kicks off at PU

   

• Thermal power stations facing shortage of coal

   

• Relief for crop damage by wildlife

   

• Farmers shifting to direct rice plantation

June

• Chhatbir lions’ display value declines

   

• Wildlife sanctuary at Nangal

   

• Water wastage - Rich contributing more towards water crisis

   

• Dirty water in Bhakra main line

   

• Potable Water: Villagers vow to assist World Bank project

   

• No check as city flouts polythene ban

   

• PEDA allocates 31 biomass projects

   

• Farmer reaps benefit of solar power-Enjoys 24x7 water, electricity supply

   

• Water level rises in Bhakra-Magsaysay awardee calls for rainwater harvesting

   

• Hottest day of season in city

   

• Panel to advise farmers on climatic changes

   

• Premature leaf ageing in Bt Cotton Crop-PAU scientists recommend foliar spray of potassium

   

• Treatment’ for Punjab’s ‘Herbal for Punjab’ farmers, THE BIGSELLERS

   

• Generation dips at Mukerian hydel plant

   

• Bhakra to reduce water supply to 4 states

   

• Soaring temperatures; Sukhna drying up

   

• Ranjit Sagar Dam level tanks sharply

   

• Bhakra level receding a foot a day

   

• Technology needed to boost litchi output-Old orchards being uprooted in Gurdaspur district

   

• Ganda Nullah Cleaning-MC officials on toes to complete work

   

• Weaving art from weed to save wetlands, empower women

   

• Forest Department to  distribute 10 lakh seedings

   

• PSEB to overhaul units to control pollution

   

• NGOs, RWAs join hands with Municipal Corporation in waste management plan

   

• Heat wave sweeps city

   

• Come monsoon, NGOs to take out plantation drive

   

• PAU develops Rs 30 water-testing kit.

   

• Machines out of reach, farmers, replace labourers in fields.

   

• Breaking free of wheat-paddy cycle

   

• Climate Change - Outcome at Copenhagen unlikely

 

• White tigress dies at Chhatbir zoo

   

• Power situation in Punjab hits rock bottom

   

• Power cuts gets longer as two thermal units trip

   

• Now, Cash in on intellectual property

   

• Water recharging system must for new buildings in Punjab

   

• Uranium contamination in Bathinda’s groundwater

   

• Nod to coal mining in degraded forests

   

• 275 MW power target from mini-hydel projects

   

• Global sunscreen might cool Earth

   

• Climate change will have 'severe' impact on Asia

   

• World Bank team reviews water supply

   

• Waste management on mind, civic body teams up with NGOs, residents

   

• Emphasis on crop diversification

   

• One lakh trees to be cut-Six-laning Jalandhar-Karnal highway

   

• Asia set to become biggest climate change driver

   

• 1,000 acres to come under net house cultivation

   

• PSEB issues guidelines to save power

   

• Women in Men’s World II-Setting an example for others

   

• 100 saplings planted

   

• Sunstroke’ hits three city lakes

   

• TERI launches specialised library on climate change

   

• Beware of your ‘healthy diet’, it can lead to cancer

   

• Drive to enforce ban on plastic bags

   

• Adulteration: Authorities get cracking-Collect milk, cheese samples

   

• Badal assures 8-hour regular power to farmers

• Wheat straw prices soar-Dairy farmers seek ban on usage by industry

   

• Procurement blues for paddy even before hitting mandis

   

• Water Water Management Must : NEERI

   

• Panel to identify units polluting Buddha Nullah

   

• Milk adulteration rampant in city-Health deptartment collects samples

   

• Hike in Rent of Land-Farmers start cutting labour cost

   

• New Paddy Plantation Season-Dependence on labourers will decline: Patiala Commissioner

   

• Study undertaken to divide city into zones for garbage collection

   

• Cross border cultivation, bane for state farmers

   

• Bihar’s call to free bonded labour in Punjab

   

• MC to add six new green belts, parks to city

   

• Review meet on water supply held

   

• Monsoon effect: Civic body to provide additional storm water drainage lines in city

   

• Year-old garbage disposal plant turns out a waste

   

• Energy auditing the new mantra to save power: Experts to industrialists

   

• Government lifts ban on micronutrients

   

• Spurious milk: City no better

   

• MC team inspects sewerage treatment plant

   

• Increasing levels of Uranium in food and water-PSHRC takes suo motu notice

   

• Tips on resource conservation technologies

   

• PAU to impart training in agriculture to rural youth

   

• Booming population strains groundwater-Poor quality makes it unfit for drinking

   

• Global meltdown, an opportunity for India

   

• No respite for residents around Dadumajra dump

   

• Air suffocating residents

   

• 13 Water samples fail Test

• Stop direct discharge into Buddha Nullah: Report

   

• Bane of Bathinda-Food, water samples show alarming uranium levels

   

• PAU experts treat ancient Beris

   

• Tackling Water, Air pollution not on Govt. agenda

   

• Zoo Animals also feel the Heat

   

• Residents forced to Consume Dirty Water

   

• PAU develops Medicinal Mushroom

   

• Environment Day-Power plants defy Pollution Control norms

   

• Water samples non-potable: Study

   

• World Environment Day-Garbage shows hollowness of Celebrations

   

• India must show wisdom at Global Climate talks: Expert

   

• Green Action Plan Launched

   

• 'Conservation Key to Protect Environment'

 

• A year into New Act, Water table up, power bills down

   

• Science Council to leaf through nature to preserve it, help locals.

   

• Clean Energy for Tomorrow

   

• River Pollution has grown like Cancer: Seechewal

   

• WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - City Zooms on Diesel Vehicles

   

• Sohanjana Eco-Club to be honoured

   

• PU Campaign for Greener Planet

   

• CMS Environment to screen films on World Environment Day

   

• Garbage Dumping - PPCB to crack whip on two NCs

   

• Four-lane Projects felled 25,000 Trees

   

• Water shortage haunts Mohali

   

• City reels under Water Crisis
   

• Project to make Sirhind Canal Pollution-free launched

 

• Thermal Plant fly ash — Bane of Bathinda-Children more susceptible to respiratory, eye ailments

 

• Sirhind Canal to become Pollution-free

 

• Rodent Menace: PAU Experts give Tips

May

• Buddha Nullah is nobody’s baby: Jyotika Sood
   

• Expansion of Panipat-Jalandhar Stretch-1.36 lakh trees to face Axe

• ‘Strike balance between Environment, Development’

   

• Competitions mark Biodiversity Day

   

• Water Unsafe in 28 Govt Schools

   

• Power Plants face Coal Crisis

   

• Rivulet turns into Nullah

   

• Bahuguna for Safeguarding Ecology

   

• SC Suspends Mining in Aravallis

   

• ‘Sutlej Spillage an Accident’

   

• Sutlej Oil Spillage PPCB to Act Against Power Board

   

• Burning of Wheat Stubble Ruins Environs

   

• More Dolphins spotted in Beas

 

• Birds find home in Artificial Nests

   

• Polythene Carry Bags are Back

   

• Sukhna Lake-dying in slow death

 

• 42 Degrees Celsius and Rising - Met dept warns of heat wave conditions till Sat; heatstroke cases reported.

April

• Oil Spillage in Sutlej-PPCB Team Collects Samples

• Furnace Oil Spills into Sutlej

• The Curse of Buddha Nullah

• Earth Day Celebrated in Schools

• Earth Day Celebrated at CSIO

• Cleanliness Drive

• Forest Fire-Hundreds of ‘pahari kikar’ trees damaged

• Parties indifferent to Environment deserve boycott: Seechewal 

• NASA Scientists at Mohali Schools

• Uranium in Water-200 Reverse Osmosis Plants of Little Use

• Detection of Uranium will take time: DAE team

• Discharge of Untreated Sullage into Mohali Rivulets Declines

• Bahuguna for Development of Himalayas

• Conference on Energy Management

• Study of Climatic Variation-SASE ties up with Allahabad Varsity

• Welfare body seeks increase of Water Supply

• Baba’s Environment Echoes Fill Villages

• Book River Polluters: Seechewal

• Buddha Nullah-Deadline over, Treatment Plants not Upgraded

• Straw Burning-Punjab, Haryana Formulate Plans

March

• Pollution Act being defied: Seechewal

• Awareness Drive on “Earth Hour”

• Rain flattens Wheat Crop

• Conservation Agriculture-Food grains body to Harvest ‘Happy Wheat’

• Organic Farming a hit with US Agriculturists

• World Forestry Day

• Row Over Organic Farming

• Conference on Energy, Environment Begins

• Govt: Lacked Facility to detect Poison in Water

• Ecology Conference Concludes

• Siachen Melts to half its size

• Parallel Panel for Farmers Announced

• High Uranium Levels Cause of Birth Deformities: Doctors

• Workshop on Forest Science

• Wheat Production likely to Fall 

• Status of Forests in Developing Nations-‘No proper Survey Affecting Policies’

• Pressure Power from Traffic

• Farm Technology must be ‘Eco-friendly, Cost-effective’

• Wheat Straw Paper Spells more Income for Farmers

• Sub-soil Water Overexploited in State: Experts

• Flower Fragrance Spreading in Punjab

• Regional Ground Water Summit-Nodal agency must for monitoring: Experts

• Punjab Agro proposes Olive Orchards on 400 Acres

• Water-logging can be avoided, feel experts

• Eurasian, Sarus Cranes Spotted in Wetland

February

• ‘Set up task force to Manage Water Resources’

• Importance of Biotechnology Highlighted

• ‘Oceanic Algae Important for Environment’

• Science Congress from Feb. 26

• Importance of Water Quality discussed

• Students take out rally on Climate Change

• NRI Gets Water-Purifying System Installed-Fighting Budda Nullah Curse

• Satellite-Based Data Centres for Bhakra, Pong Dams

• Seminar on Climate Held

• Going Green (Article)

• Budha Nullah Pollution - Court tells PPCB to get tough with PSEB

• Bt Cotton Causes Health Problems: Experts

January

• Forest Department to Conduct Bird Survey

• The Dead Fish may be as much as 10 Tonnes

• Protecting Golden Temple from Pollution-PPCB for Ban on Burning of Diesel, Coal

• ‘Climatic Changes may Dry Punjab Rivers’

• Migratory Birds make Village Pond their Home

• ‘Global Warming is Natural, Enjoy it’

• Environmental Week Ends at Girls’ College

• Seminar on Climate Protection

• Panel to Certify Quality of Greenhouses

• Budda Nullah-'Deadline for Polluters'

• Conference on Environmental Sciences

• If only Government had Kept Awake-'Some Things Just Don’t Change 3'

• From Sacred River to Deadly Scourge- 'Some Things Just Don’t Change-2'

• Organic Farming not good for Wheat, Rice

• Conference on Environment

• Now, a Price on Science Trip

• Budda Nullah Curse Lives on-'Some Things Just Don’t Change-I'

• Report on Organic Farming-Punjab Farmers’ Experiences Ignored, says NGO

• Experts for Joint Panel to Study Organic Farming.

• Green Fingers Junk Farm Panel Report-‘Organic is the way, Chemicals Killing Agri-Economy’.

• Going Organic No Option for Farmers: Kalkat.

• Seechewal Launches Water Recycling Plant in Dasuya

• National Cleanliness Award for Hamlet (Nian Khurd, District Patiala)

• Black Water Flows Chitti Bein.

• Migratory Birds prefer Nangal Wetland over Ropar.

• Ecological Crisis should not be ignored: Expert.

• Black Ibis spotted in Ludhiana village.

• Experts to discuss ways to Beat Meltdown.

• Depleting Coal Reserves Worry Power Board.

• Organic farmers protest commission report

• Mission Disputes Farm Panel’s Claim

• Organic Farming can be Counter-Productive

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