Team L&M All you bird enthusiasts out there, it is time you packed your bags for the day and headed to Dhanauri Wetland in Greater Noida for the Bird Festival being celebrated to mark the World Wetlands Day tomorrow. Dhanauri in district Gautam Budh Nagar, around 45 km from Noida and 8 km from the […]Read More
Team L&M With the Festival of Lights just a week away, the scientists at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have developed less polluting firecrackers which are not only environment-friendly but 15-20% cheaper than the conventional ones. Named Safe Water Releaser (SWAS), Safe Minimal Aluminium (SAFAL) and Safe Thermite Cracker (STAR), these were introduced […]Read More
The first Indian woman to scale Mt Everest Bachendri Pal will lead the month-long rafting expedition of a 40-member team. The expedition will start from Haridwar on October 5, traversing a distance of around 1,500 km encompassing eight major towns including Bijnor, Farrukhabad, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi and Buxar. It will conclude in Patna, Bihar on […]Read More
Team L&M Imagine the PET bottle you took a sip from to gulp down your favourite soft drink and threw into the garbage bin coming back to you in the form that you can wear. In times when there has been a never-ending hue and cry about the need to cut down on the use […]Read More
Team L&M Ancient farming practices led to a rise in the atmospheric emission of the heat-trapping gases c — a rise that has continued since and has profoundly changed Earth’s climate, a study has claimed. The findings, led by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showed that ancient farmers cleared land to plant wheat and […]Read More
जब देखती कटते पेड़ों को, वह आवाज़ देते- “हमे जीने दो” | जब गुज़रती उस गन्दी नदी के पास से तो, वह आवाज़ देेती- “मुझे जीने दो” | सांस लेती प्रदूषित हवा में जो, वह आवाज़ देेती- “मुझे जीने दो” | दुखी हो गयी देखकर इनकी दशा को, बार-बार वही आवाज़ गूंजती- “मुझे जीने दो, […]Read More
Team L&M This June 5 (World Environment Day), let us look for ways to shift our consumption pattern and lifestyle towards sustainable alternatives. Rather than having only development, let us have sustainable development with low ecological footprints. While people’s values, expectations and aspirations for future must be taken into account to develop strategies for consumer […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Yet another tree fell in Chembur taking the life of a woman, the breadwinner for her family comprising college and school-going children. This time, it was a gulmohar tree which crashed while the woman was sitting on a bench under it. Last time, a similar accident happened in Chembur when a coconut […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha As we observe another Earth Hour (March 24) today, most people will go for “lights out” for an hour, from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm. Do that by all means, but also pledge that you will not just observe this as a ritual but genuinely start caring for the environment in a […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Come December and bird enthusiasts in and around Noida will have a new-look and redeveloped Okhla Bird Sanctuary to visit to including a state-of-the-art interpretation centre, nature club, nature trail, CCTV control centre, digital library and bird guides, along with other basic amenities and facilities. The sanctuary will become more visitor-friendly and will […]Read More