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All models are wrong: some models are useful

– Noel de Nevers in his book ‘Air Pollution Control Engineering’.

It's true whether you believe in it or not. Ideally, the perfect air pollutant concentration model would allow us to predict the concentrations that would result from any specified set of pollutant emissions, for any specified meteorological conditions, at any…

Centre for Environment and Development as part of the activity on Centre of Excellence of Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India has initiated the India Waste Management Portal. Have a look and comment.

http://www.indiawastemanagementportal.org/

Sabu

Bioenergy: Impediments and Plausible Solutions

Introduction

Biomass resources have been in use for a variety of purposes since ages. Their multitude of uses includes usage as a livestock or for meeting domestic and industrial thermal requirements or for the generation of power to fulfil any electrical or mechanical needs. These resources provide for a clean source of power generation since most of them are considered to be carbon…

During Monitoring of ambient air quality of Varanasi city I have noted that level of SPM was found above the standards given by CPCB most of the times...

What may be the passible causes???

 Dear all,

 One again the human soiety at the door step of Dangerous death?

as the recent sunamy of japan questions us again?is the destructive Nuclear power palnts  are really needed by the human beings? 

now how to solve this  problem of radiation. what are the experts opinion on this i want to now?

 what are the measures taken by the indian govt to protect our n-plants.

in the name of development we (human beings) spoiling & destorying the natural…

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has assessed a sugar beet plant a $50,400 civil penalty for air quality and storage tank violations. Inspectors also found violations of storage tank requirements. Those included late and missing tank inspections, corrosion on steel tanks and piping, and unreported leaks and spills of beet juice.

Impact of Corrosion on…

The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) has become the first Designated Operational Entity (DOE) in India to be accredited by the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism to validate and certify functions in the sectoral scope of 'Afforestation and Reforestation' (A/R)



for further details refere MoEF/ ICFRE website.

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If someone looking for latest windrose plots - checkout this website http://windrose.indianclimate.org.

-Sudhanshu 

There are millions of animals existing today

But hundreds have gone into extinction

But we know them & see them in movies & museums

There are many animals that are endangered slowly moving towards extinction

The predominant activity being human interference with their habit & habitat

Let us stop this interference with their livelihood and let’s not fight with them

Let’s love them and give them a place to live in their…

This is a son written for the sake of my son studying UKG as a part of his curricular activity. If anyone can better it it's most welcomed.

Children in the forest gather around

where birds sing songs and nature is undisturbed

During summer, as green as it could be

A place where we can proudly hug the trees.



Hug trees for the fruits & Shade they give,

For giving small animals a place to live

for the priceless gift of oxygen they give to all living…

When Warlis (Warlis are tribals that have lived in the Sahyadri mountains in north Maharashtra since time immemorial) need something, they don't go to the supermarket. No, there are no supermarkets where they live. They go to the forest, the bountiful forest. Amazing! Amazing! Everything the Warlis need is available in the forest. Can you believe that??

When they need building materials for the construction of their hut, all they do is chop their way through the green tangled…

Lavassa incident if it is to be covered under the EIA Notification, what were local authorities doing till now?

There are a few aspects highlighted

1. lack of communicability between the central, state and local governing bodies.
2. burocracy has failed times without number in the country and this incident will only add one more number.
3. the country in which we have slum clearance boards and the Mumbai City where almost or may be half of the Census count is…