Dead fish in polluted waters

Just behind the Taj Mahal, thousands of dead fish have been floating down the Yamuna river here for the past few days. Residents have been gathering the dead fish and eating them, and there were reports of some people falling ill because at least some of the fish may be carrying pollutants.

150 million tonnes waste generated daily in India

India generates 150 million tonne of waste in a day and most of it is left in the landfills at the city outskirts leaving a stinking smell and vultures hovering over heaps of hazardous material.

Only 10-20 per cent of the city waste is recyled in an environment-friendly way and the rest is allowed to lie in the landfills

Allow Pandas to vanish: British naturalist

IANS reports that Chris Peckham, a British conservationist says pandas should be allowed to go extinct because they are "extraordinarily expensive to keep going" and may be surviving at the cost of other species and rainforests.

"Extinction is very much a part of life on earth. And we are going to have to get used to it in the next few years because climate change is going to result in all sorts of disappearances," TV naturalist Chris Peckham said.

The Himalayas: melting! Polar bears: dying!

A 13-year-old Indian girl, speaking on behalf of the world's three billion children, asked world leaders , including the Presidents of the United States of America and China, for urgent action on climate change.
“I am so much concerned about climate change because I don't want our future generations to question us just as I am questioning the need of more concrete action on climate change today,” Ms Yugratna Srivastava from Lucknow said at the Summit on Climate Change in the United Nations.
“The Himalayas are melting, polar bears are dying, 2 of every 5 people don't have access to clean drinking water, earth's temperature is increasing, we are losing the untapped information and potential of plant species, Pacific's water level has risen. Is this what we are going to hand over to our future generations? Please no!”
The ninth grader from St Fidelis College spoke at the high-level summit convened by the UN chief Mr Ban Ki-moon. India was represented by foreign minister Mr SM Krishna and environment minister Mr Jairam Ramesh.