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Calling Mumbai’s birders: Why avian enthusiasts should attend these events this weekAvian enthusiasts have a lot to look out for at two birding events that are taking place at Bhandup Pumping Station

This Mumbai-based NGO is engaging with and educating kids about the environmentAn NGO is educating young minds across schools about the environment

60% Navi Mumbai lakes polluted; used to bathe, wash clothes: StudyThe study was conducted to prepare baseline data of Navi Mumbai’s lakes for future policy decisions

संजय गांधी राष्ट्रीय उद्यानात राबविली स्वच्छता मोहीममुंबई : संजय गांधी राष्ट्रीय उद्यान व ग्रीन लाइन यांच्या संयुक्त विद्यमाने जागतिक वसुंंधरा दिनाचे औचित्य साधून सोमवारी सकाळच्या ...

Mumbai: Residents submit green manifesto to partiesThe human chain was organised by the collective ‘United for Change’, which includes various city-based environment groups and NGOs.

43% shopkeepers unaware about plastic ban in Maharashtra, reveals surveyIn November 2017, state environment minister Ramdas Kadam had announced a total ban on plastic carry bags throughout the state from March 18 onwards.

Students from 50 schools in Mumbai are making toilets out of plastic bottles; here’s howLending a hand to enable Maharashtra to recognise its dream of a plastic-free state, students from as many as fifty schools from Mumbai have decided to launch an initiative to construct a toilet block on the city’s Versova beach out of junked plastic bottles.

First-ever Anti-litter Day campaign sees participation from 15 Mumbai schools The 10-hour event was organised by NGO GreenLine under its Green Schools initiative

Students to construct toilets from plastic at Versova beachWith more than 50 schools participating in the initiative, specially fabricated eco-bricks will be used for building the structure.

Green threat: Concrete ‘choking’ 2,081 trees in Mumbai City-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), GreenLine, along with 120 students from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, carried out a survey across 19 municipal wards in Mumbai and found 2,081 trees choked with concrete and rubble at the base, without any tree basins...

Mumbai students begin GIS mapping of Mithi RiverAround 100 students mapped three stretches of the 15-km Mithi River on Saturday as a trial run to record encroachments, sewage outlets and percolation points using a geographic information system (GIS).

Aarey’s Chota Kashmir Garden gets 100 new saplingsIn an effort to increase Mumbai's green cover, 100 saplings of different varieties of plants were planted at Chhota Kashmir Garden at Aarey Milk Colony, on Tuesday.

Mumbai: Meet the people who are fighting to Save Aareymid-day brings you the people behind the Save Aarey Milk Colony community, which forced the state government to rethink their decision to chop 2,298 trees in the colony to make way for a Metro car shed

Salesians on green drive in city schools - Times of IndiaSix years ago when the Salesians from Mumbai initiated their GreenLine project, it included a number of initiatives.

Mumbai Kids discover, document treesThe Tree Revival Campaign, aimed at protecting and growing trees in Mumbai, was jointly launched in July by Dadar-based environmental consulting firm Environment Management Centre (EMC), NGO Greenline, and conducted its first session at Bandra.

‘Environment education not enough; must bring nature into classroom’While schools have included environment in their curriculum, naturalists have criticised the institutions for making environment studies just another subject with tests and lectures.

Fellowship in city to fulfil youngsters’ green dreamsNita Shashidharan, 24, was looking out to work on a citizens science project. Last week, the former environmental science student of the Institute of Science, Fort, spotted the right platform when she heard of GreenLead, an environment leadership programme of GreenLine, Don Bosco Development Society.

School cuts down on its trashThe next time you pass by St Joseph’s High School, Wadala, don’t be surprised if you see the students carrying cloth bags. Following a waste audit conducted last September, the school has been encouraging all students to use cloth bags and shun plastic.

Students raise money for Sikkim quake victimsWhile most school children in the city are preparing for exams or Diwali holidays, students of Sacred Heart School, Kalyan are busy collecting money for the victims of the recent earthquake in Sikkim.

Students turn Vashi school into green zoneAt Vashi’s Sacred Heart School, students of its Eco Club spent vast amounts of energy last year — in trying to conserve it.

Students sift through garbage to learn how to save the environmentFor four days, a group of students at St Joseph's School in Wadala pored through garbage, sifting, separating and weighing it.

12 schools vie for ‘Greenest School’ awardFor the past six months, students from 12 schools in the city have been diligently occupied with composting, garbage segregation, green workshops and campus gardening.

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