Tag: Delhi
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In India, Big Monkeys Are Employed As Bodyguards Against Hordes of Smaller Monkeys
Every night, hordes of rhesus monkeys invade government buildings in New Dheli. They tear up offices and attack office workers. In 2007, a deputy mayor fell off a terrace to his
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It's World Health Day: WHO Says The World is Losing Battle to Superbugs
Here's some great news to mark World Health Day: a new report shows that a gene that causes bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics has been found throughout the water supply in New Delhi. The implications for
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Sewers as Sidewalks: Delhi Ups the Urban Reuse Ante
Urban planner and architect Manit Rastogi has an idea that makes the High Line look like child's play: turning the 350 kilometers of storm water drains -- now mostly filled with
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Walking: An Equal-Opportunity Answer to Traffic Congestion, From New York to New Delhi
With just 139 cars for every 1,000 residents -- compared to 209 in New York City, and a whopping 765 in the United States as a whole -- many parts of Istanbul are
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India's Mining Boom: Tribal Groups, Poor & Environment Losing Out
Photo: Women make up a majority of the menial labour force in the mining industry (CSE) Make no mistake, India has a lot of mineral wealth in the ground. Iron, bauxite, gold, lead, zinc, manganese, coal and copper are some of the dozens of minerals found
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It's Official: Only 1,411 Tigers Left In India's Forest Reserves
Image: National GeographicIn official and distressing figures released last week by the newly-minted National Tiger Conservation Authority (set up to implement India's Project Tiger), the latest estimated count of tigers remaining in India’s protected
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Delhi Calling: NYC's SHoP Architects To Design New Green Development
New York-based SHoP Architects are now taking on a master plan for a sustainable development in Sector 61 — located in Gurgaon, just outside of the capital Delhi — with the ground-breaking slated for next year. SHoP will be designing all 100
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Report: Cleaner Air for Delhi Still Long Way Off
According to a recent study by an environmental watchdog, it appears that despite the Indian government's efforts to tackle pollution in the capital of New Delhi, harmful particulates are once again reaching levels before its CNG (compressed natural
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Indian Government May Have Grossly Overestimated Water Supply
"Delhi, we have a problem" – at least according to a paper recently published in Current Science by researchers from the elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Jamia Milia Islamia (National Islamic University) in Delhi which claims that the
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Eco-friendly Bus Fleet Takes Off in Delhi
The Delhi government
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Universal Potty Pledge From 2007 World Toilet Summit
Here on Treehugger there is no shortage on the scoop on alternative toilets for those among us who desire better poopers - nevertheless, not everyone is fortunate enough to have the luxury of choice. Right at this moment, the India Habitat Centre of New
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More Eco-Friendly Funeral Pyres Introduced in India
The irony that an average Indian's carbon footprint may actually be larger in death than in life is certainly not lost on Vinod Kumar Agarwal. Agarwal, the head of the environmental group Mokshda Green Cremation System based in Delhi and a mechanical
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Schools Pass the PEAS in Delhi
And it's a concept I think should really catch on and be passed from one school to the next across the planet. Consider this, schools in Delhi and across India are getting involved in that country's Programme for Environmental Awareness in Schools
