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Joint Forest Management (JFM) is an organic process targeting the regeneration of degraded forests by involving the local community and operates on the interaction between the Forest Department and the local community. Successful formation and functioning of Village Forest Councils (VFCs) is the key factor that decides the success of the entire programme.

Treatment of waste water like industrial effluents and sewage is a major problem being faced by corporate sector in India. Of the late, due to major policy shift in industrial licensing policy, corporate sector have now started treatment of industrial waste before releasing the same in rivers.

Based on the verified emissions for the 2005 and 2006 trading years, the actual emissions and allowances for each installation
covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) were compared. Based on data available for 24 Member States as

Going against the current scientific grain, four Iranian scientists reviewed literature from more than 50 countries across the world and found that smoke has several therapeutic uses

Since 2002, Hiware Bazar has been doing an annual budgeting of water assisted by Ahmednagar district's groundwater department. Every year, the village measures the total amount of water available in

The Ahmednagar lesson

There is still no clear vision among planners, policymakers and transport experts about what will make Indian cities better places to live in as far as mobility and access are concerned. The prevailing mythology is that construction of metro rail systems will somehow solve the problems of the future.

Antarctica is the most unspoiled continent on Earth - and fast becoming a tourist hotspot. It has been 50 years since the first cruise ship visited with 200 passengers, but now 30,000 tourists go each year. Veteran polar researcher and zoologist Bernard Stonehouse has seen for himself how Antarctica has changed: he first set foot there in 1946 and since the early 1990s has been back every year to study the impact of tourism. He tells Henry Nicholls why tourists are important to Antarctica, and why scientists may pose a greater threat to its environment. (Interview)