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Special: Hyderabad third greenest city in India

No red signal to green depletion 
Hyderabad: It is estimated that the city has lost one-third of its green cover owing to encroachments, road widening and diverting forest lands for commercial purpos

PM doles out Rs 270 cr for biodiversity

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday pledged $50 million -around Rs 270 crore -towards protecting biodiversity.

India is currently the Chair of the 11th Conference of Parties (CoP-11) to the UN C

City fails healthy biodiversity test

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Hyderabad scored 36 out of 92; It scored poorly in recreational and education services for children If this was an exam, the city would have failed miserably.

Greater Hyderabad has scored zero (out

Experts warn against universal patents

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Biodiversity experts have strongly opposed the idea of a supranational world patent regime arguing that it would kill the local scientific talent and make government-funded res-earch more expensive.

Islands in focus now

Delegates from island countries from across the globe met in the city on Sunday to discuss the threats to their biodiversity wealth ahead of Island Innovations, the Island Summit to be held parallel t

Delegates soak in Green Veda theories

Vedic ecology is generating a lot of excitement at the ongoing Conference of Parties (CoP-11) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. A group of activists is popularising the concept

City’s biodiversity rated 30 out of 92

The city is two-thirds of a point away from reaching the pinnacle of biodiversity conservation. On a scale of 92, the level of biodiversity management in Greater Hyderabad is 30. Topping the list in b

India takes the chair, to guide world on biosafety

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India formally took over the reins of conserving the world’s biological diversity on Monday, with a call to nations to speed up the process of ratifying the Cartagena Protocol on bio-safety and sustai

1 lakh rice varieties vanished in 100 yrs

Environment experts feel that the rich biodiversity of rice is fast depleting, with only a handful of commercially viable varieties being cultivated the world over. In the last 100 years, as many as 1

Rs 10/day for biodiversity

Human greed has caused a major damage to the delicate biological diversity over the centuries. The estimated cost of rectifying this damage, at least to some extent, comes to a whopping Rs 23,65,000 c

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