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Explained: Why organic matter in soil is crucial for a state like Punjab -Anju Agnihotri Chaba

-The Indian Express Indian-American soil scientist Dr Rattan Lal said in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh soils are degraded and depleted because ‘organic matter' is quite below (.5-.2 per cent). In the past five decades, the state had achieved several firsts in the field of agriculture and even became the first state in the country to install soil fertility map in each village to improve soil health. But the soil of Punjab...

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Over three-fourth of workers lost livelihoods since lockdown, finds a national survey of informal workers conducted by ActionAid India

-Press release by ActionAid India dated 13th August, 2020 Out of 11,537 respondents, over three-fourths reported that they had lost their livelihood since the imposition of the lockdown. Close to half of the respondents said that they had not received any income, and about 17 per cent had received only partial wages. Approximately 53 per cent said that they had incurred additional debt during the lockdown. More than half of the...

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Two sides of the same coin: Shrinking Water bodies and urban floods

-Down to Earth Water bodies have become even more critical in current times when cities are facing the challenge of rapid, unplanned urbanisation Lakes and wetlands are an important part of urban ecosystem. They perform significant environmental, social and economic functions — from being a source of drinking Water and recharging groundWater to supporting biodiversity and providing livelihoods. Their role becomes even more critical in the present context, when cities are facing the...

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NGT wants groundWater extraction based on EIA only -Shreya Verma

-Down to Earth Tribunal calls for doing away with general permissions given to commercial entities to withdraw groundWater The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has called for commercial entities to follow new rules for getting permission to extract groundWater. Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) will now form the basis of granting such permissions, the NGT bench said. The Union Ministry of Jal Shakti (Water) and the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) were ordered by the...

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Assam floods: Children account for 44.5 per cent of deaths -Tora Agarwala

-The Indian Express In a particularly devastating flood in Assam this year, 49 children have been reported dead so far. Guwahati: On June 1, a 13-year-old in Assam’s Nagaon district drowned while chasing ducks in a flooded river near his house. A month later, on July 1, a six-year-old slipped and fell into the slushy Waters of the Champabati river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, in Dhubri district while making her way...

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