The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has field a case against Lavasa Corporation in NT Ghadge, for violation of the Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986.

The MPCB named nine members of the board of directors and six officers of Lavasa Corporation. The accused include Ajit Gulabchand chairman and managing director of the firm behind the controversial project.

Keeping the clocks one hour ahead of time would save half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, a new study has revealed.

It has been reported that a study at the Cambridge University has revealed that moving the clocks one hour ahead of the GMT during winters could save hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide by making evenings lighter and reducing electricity demand.

The researchers have said that cutting carbon emissions by 450,000 tonnes would be equal of taking 200,000 cars off Britain''s roads.

A citizens group organized a musical event to spread awareness about the drying up of the Neela Hauz lake. The Musical event including musical performances by local residents is being held on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus on Tuesday evening.

The citizens groups and environmentalists say that lake started drying up after an over-bridge was constructed by the Public Welfare Department.

Over the last many years, Plastic has become an important part of human society. But this technology has become a bad omen for the human now-a-days, because plastics are polymers that cannot be destroyed by nature. Huge deposits of plastics are increasing in form of garbage.

They have a critical role in making the case for action to avert climate change, former Vice President Al Gore told a convention of philanthropists in Denver.

The Denver Post has reported that Gore spoke Monday at the annual meeting of the Council of Foundations. Gore, 62, made a stop in Denver between a trip to Italy and another to South Africa.

Gore said, "We have to go far quickly, which means we have to get our act together. You have a unique role in getting our act together,"

The environment minister said on Tuesday that Japan's $15 billion climate aid to poor and vulnerable nations will depend on their support for the Copenhagen Accord.

The requirements of the program, which runs through 2012, were explained by the minister Sakihito Ozawa while speaking to reporters in Tokyo.

Kyodo News reported that he said whether the recipient countries have endorsed the Copenhagen climate change accord, reached at the U. N. conference in December, would be an "important factor" when distributing aid to help tackle climate change issues.

After the failure of the maiden edition of the Copenhagen Summit, now the world is looking at the small countries to come forward and take the responsibility.

The developed countries along with US and European countries could not come up with any new resolutions at the summit. Now Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Ecuador, Latin American countries, as well as Sudan and Saudi Arabia, have become the tough reviewers of the Copenhagen deal.

U. S. and British observers have said that buying ecologically friendly products is big business and, for many, a big guessing game, subject to debate and subterfuge.

USA Today reported on Thursday that researchers at Mintel International Group said products that billed as green or environmentally friendly was a $722 billion business in 2009, up 41 percent from five years earlier.

Author Rona Berg, considered an expert on eco-friendly options in personal care products, said, "Green-washing is rampant."

Green-washing refers to marketing a product as green, when it really isn't.

Indian power sector, which has recently seen some very welcome developments, is going to see some more. With the summers setting in, the power situation has become bad and environment has turned hot.

The same can be said about the entry of private companies in the power sector. While the private players are trying to grab a piece of the Indian market, National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) has decided that it will eye both India and overseas markets.

The weather office has said that with the minimum temperature remaining well above average early on Monday, the capital is set for yet another scorching week ahead.

Talking on the basis of reports, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said, "The minimum temperature recorded early Monday was five degrees above average, at 22 degrees Celsius. The maximum is expected to touch 38 degrees Celsius."

An island company has reported that Mothballed U. S. Navy ships polluting a Northern California bay could be towed to a South Pacific island and scrapped there.

The Contra Costa Times reported on Wednesday that a salvage company in the Northern Mariana Islands announced plans to bid on disposal contracts and tow the aged vessels, mothballed in Suisun Bay, to the islands' biggest city Saipan for scrapping.

It has acquired South Carolina munitions cleanup and environment remediation solutions provider Advent Environmental Inc., Versar Inc. said on Thursday.

Security and defense professional services company Versar announced the acquisition in a strategic move to strengthen its munitions response and unexploded ordinance cleanup capabilities.

New York, Feb 26 - Wal-Mart, the world's biggest company, Thursday announced it will cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from its global supply chain by the end of 2015.

The cut amounts to taking more than 3.8 million cars off the road for a year, the world's top retailer said in a statement.

As part of its island-wide reforestation project, Puerto Rico will plant millions of trees over the next three years.

Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA) on Wednesday unveiled The Plataforma Verde (Green Platform) initiative.

Daniel Galan, secretary of DRNA said that an investment of over $10 million would be required for the project.

He said that this year, 300,000 trees would be planted.

An updated motor vehicle emission simulator (Moves) model would be put in place by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The simulator would be helpful for giving much reliable information of the quantum of pollution spread by car, trucks and other vehicles.

Cold wave is sweeping Southwest Florida that has got growers worrying. Seeing a downfall in overnight temperature however, growers are hopeful their crops were not in danger today.

Logan Johnson, a National Weather Service meteorologist, predicted Fort Myers was close to freezing. Lee County was expected to be around 35 degrees for today and Tuesday.

"I'm concerned about the cold weather but I'm not flipping out yet," Alva tomato grower Robert Ritchey said. Talking about a positive aspect of cold Ritchey said insect activity could be controlled due to cold in tomatoes.

Copenhagen, Dec 19 - The UN climate ummit was forced to adjourn without consensus Saturday, as four countries help up the adoption of the Copenhagen accord proposed by five countries including India.

Despite support from most countries around the world, there was no consensus on adopting the accord, due to objections from Venezuela, Bolivia, Sudan and Tuvalu.

Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen was forced to adjourn the final plenary session for the third time.

Copenhagen/Washington, Dec 19 - Global players are "close to a deal" on slowing climate change, sources in Copenhagen said.

Sources familiar with the negotiations said the US, China, India, the European Union (EU) and other major polluters were still negotiating on how much "fast-start" money rich countries should give to help poorer nations deal with global warming.

Those negotiations followed reports out of Washington saying US President Barack Obama had reached an agreement with China.

Copenhagen, Dec 19 - Leaders of major economies finalised a Copenhagen accord to tackle climate change late Friday night.

The accord, which is not legally binding, was to be submitted to representatives of all 192 countries gathered here for the UN climate summit after the draft was finalised by major countries including India, the US and China and the European Union. (ISND)

Bangalore, Dec 18 - Long before words like "climate change" came to hit common lexicon, a group of environmentally conscious people in India took up the cause of the Western Ghats, one of the world's richest biodiversity hotspots.

Those behind the Save Western Ghats Campaign, which began in 1987, feel it has become a mass movement with large-scale participation by common people. The 1,600-km-long mountainous corridor of the Western Ghats covers five states - Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.