Environment
Patancheru: Alarming Ground-water Pollution Levels
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Drug waste creates highest disaster zone in Andhra Pradesh
When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.
HMDA Acquiring 225 Acres Of Forest Land For ORR Phase-II
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008PERILS OF PROGRESS: Outer Ring Road is ploughing its way through green cover around Hyderabad
Forests are being razed down for ‘developmental’ projects around Hyderabad. In the latest instance, nearly 225 acres of reserve forest land at Tumkunta and Shamirpet is being acquired for the Outer Ring Road (ORR) Phase-II-B project.
Vizag’s Beauty Spot May Disappear Soon
Sunday, August 24th, 2008The pristine beauty of the Yarada Hills overlooking the Bay of Bengal has inspired great poets including Rachakonda Viswanadha Sastry, Arudra and Sri Sri. Film directors have also chosen this locale to picture duets since the hills form a perfect backdrop for young lovers to sing and dance. But if authorities have their way, all […]
Wipro To Offer ‘Green’ Consultancy
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Wipro Eco Energy, the newly-floated arm of global IT services company Wipro Limited, is all set to provide consultancy services related to renewable energy and other eco-friendly activities by this year end.
Lakes Become Cesspools
Friday, June 20th, 2008Before it became a Hitec city, Hyderabad was famously known as the city of lakes. There are over 532 water bodies in and around the state capital with Hussainsagar Lake being the most prominent one.
Energy and Resources Institute To Set Up Campus In Hyderabad
Saturday, June 14th, 2008The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), headed by eminent environmental scientist R K Pachauri, would set up a campus in Hyderabad.
Everything You Want To Know About Green Buildings
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Colliers International is all set to release ‘r.e.Design,’ Asia’s first green real estate guide. Simon Carter shares some of the vital thoughts behind the green guide with MYTHILI G. NIRVAN.
The big problem is that modern buildings have commonly forgotten to live and breathe as part of their environment and climate.
‘Hyderabad: Green Again’ Campaign To Protect Trees
Sunday, May 18th, 2008In a tree-facing room in The Times of India building, architects, corporate consultants, former bureaucrats, IT professionals, homemakers, young students and social group representatives merged and donned a common identity, that of tree lovers, as they angrily condemned the government’s decision to hack the over three-century-old banyan at the questionable request of the US Consulate. […]
GHMC Transplants Fail
Sunday, May 18th, 2008A couple of years ago the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (now GHMC), under pressure from environmentalists, had decided to transplant chopped trees. But it’s intention appear to have been less than genuine: All the 10 transplanted trees dried and died in the past one year.