Various Issues with GM Crops

The debate on safety and need for GM crops, particularly GM food has been lingering since 1990s. The Biotech firms as well as scientists have spent a lot of time and money to convince the people that there is really ..

Genetic Engineering

Genes, as we know are unique set of instructions which decide how all the living things (including the non-living Virus) develop, grow and live. These instructions are found inside the cells on Chromosomes. Chromosome is divided into small stretches of ..

Selective Breeding Versus Genetic Engineering

It is thought that agriculture involving domestication of plants and animals was developed around 12,000 years ago. Human ventures of altering the communities of plants and animals are even older than that. Over the centuries, man has carried out selective ..

Critical Assessment of EIA Process in India

There are several drawbacks with the EIA process in India from screening to environment clearance stages. During the initial stages such as screening, preliminary assessment or scoping, the major issues are ignored which later on appear as conflicts. During prediction ..

Public Hearing Process in India

Public hearing has been recognized as an essential element in the Environment Impact Assessment procedure. In 1997, the EIA notification was amended to make public hearing for development projects mandatory. Importance of Public Hearing in EIA Process Involving public is ..

Environment Impact Assessment in India

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) is a formal process used to predict the environmental consequences of any development project. Environment Impact Assessment in India is statutory backed by the Environment Protection Act in 1986, which contains various provisions on EIA methodology ..

NDMA guidelines on Landslides and Snow Avalanches

Landslide refers to downward and outward movement of slope materials such as rocks, soil etc. due to gravity. Primary reason of Landslides includes gravity and accumulation of soft soil, debris and rocks on a steep slope. The other factors that ..

Glacial Lake Outburst Flood

Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) refers to the glacier floods caused by the drainage of naturally dammed lakes in the glacier, on or at the margin of glaciers. Glacial lakes form when a glacier retreats, leaving the debris mass at ..