AHMEDABAD: The recommendations for a cleaner and sustainable environment compiled at the Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Ahmedabad will be presented at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development called 'Rio +20,' which will be held in Rio de Janeiro in June. The recommendations at CEE have been developed by a team of around 80 children and youth from across the world at an event called 'Asia-Pacific UNEP TUNZA Children and Youth International Conference'.

The green cover in the state has declined by 554 sq km. This was revealed on Wednesday in the report of the Forest Survey of India. The forest cover (sanctuaries and protected area) recorded a nominal decline of just one sq km while the trees outside the forest area recorded a decrease of 553 sq km. Additional principal chief conservator of forest, social forestry, H S Singh, said, "The data released in the report 2011 is for the year 2008-09.

Wants GoI To Buy State’s 1,100MW Of Unutilized Gas-Based Power

Gandhinagar: It is not just surplus solar power beyond a certain cap being produced in Gujarat that the state government wants the Government of India (GoI) to buy up as it “cannot be utilized” at home.

Will Ply Between Gandhinagar, Chandkheda

The double decker bus to be introduced in Gandhinagar will have a seating capacity of 75 and will run on Euro-IV diesel engine which costs Rs 38 lakh. “This is environmentally safe and has less emission,” claims Dhodhiya.

Surat: Of the 145 endangered bird species in India, Gujarat is home to at least 35 of them. Thus it is important that researchers and ornithologists and people from all walks of life join hands in bird conservation, speakers said at a recently held seminar in Navsari on ‘Birds of Gujarat: Present status and future scenario’.

On eve of World Cancer Day on Friday, there were a number of young men who were battling for life in hospitals because they could not kick the addiction of tobacco.

In Ahmedabad as well as in Gujarat, spread of oral cancer is alarming. “Oral cancer accounts for 40 per cent cancers in men in the state. This is because of high addiction to gutkha,” said noted head and neck cancer surgeon of HCG Medisurge, Dr Kaustubh Patel.

More Than Half The Users Of Green Products Unhappy With Available Options: Survey

Ahmedabad: Use of CFL and LED bulbs in households may generally be linked to increased awareness amongst citizens about environmentfriendly and energy-efficient (EE) products. But a recent study points towards the fact that such usage may be closely linked with its cost-efficient quotient as well. The study also highlighted the fact that more than half the users of EE products are not happy with them due to various factors.

Gandhinagar: The Narmada canal’s movement towards Kutch has suddenly hit an environmental roadblock. Already under construction, the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL), which is Narmada project’s implementing agency, has now found to its utter bewilderment that it had never taken a crucial forest conservation Act clearance from the Government of India for Kutch branch canal’s 13 kilometre stretch falling outside the Wild Ass Sanctuary.

It Will Also Introduce Hand Held Ticketing Machines

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Services (AMTS) is going in for a makeover. No more a city bus service, the AMTS is being groomed to play a larger role — feeder bus service for the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) and also a means to encourage more passengers to choose public transport over personal vehicles.

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat's dream of becoming the 'gas gateway' to North India received strong financial backing worth Rs 4,500 crore from a dozen-odd nationalized banks on Monday, when state-sector company, Gujarat State Petronet Ltd (GSPL), signed up an agreement with the consortium led by Bank of India to fund the 2,200-km-long gas pipeline project from Mehsana to Jammu, via Bathinda in Punjab. The project will take three years to complete.