Bicycles race ahead of automobiles
GLOBAL bicycle production rose by more than 5 million in 1992 but world automobile production remained almost stagnant at the 1991 level of 35 million. In 1992, 100 million bicycles were produced the
News
-
-
Eco-wisdom & eco-friendly attitudes need of the hour
In search of pleasure and affluence, mankind has exploited nature to an extent that it has been rendered almost incapable of sustaining healthy life for posterity. Invaluable natural resources have been polluted and it is irresponsible and morally wrong to commit a polluted planet to future generations.
-
Plant problems
People s resistance builds up against Durgapur sponge iron units
-
Ballooning risk
The thick brown haze largely seen in the South Asian skies is spreading to newer areas like the Gulf region. V Ramanathan, a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of
-
The top bracket
The companies that have figured high on the ratings have more than one of the following features
-
POPs culture
Food products in the South Asian region (sar) are contaminated with persistent organic pollutants (pops). So claims a recently released report by New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation, Toxics
-
Cool, but polluting
High-pressure gas refrigerants leaking from the cooling systems that chill supermarket display cases are a major source of environmental pollution, according to engineers at the University of
-
India decides to ratify POPs
On October 20, 2005, the Indian government finally gave its approval to ratify and accede to the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (pops). The move came after months of dithering
-
Report confirms ozone pollution can kill
Even breathing in a little ozone at levels found in many areas is likely to kill some people prematurely, the National Research Council reported on Tuesday. The report recommends that the Environmental Protection Agency consider ozone-related mortality in any future ozone standards, and said local health authorities should keep this in mind when advising people to stay indoors on polluted days.
-
The anatomy of a non-policy
Mining in India is about livelihood, deforestation, pollution, and a lot more. The New Mineral Policy deals with all this by simply hoping corporates will turn into good citizens. After two-and-a-half years of wrangling between mineral-rich states and the centre, between steel-makers and iron ore miners, India now has a new National Mineral Policy
-
HC to the help of a pollution fighter
THE Madurai Bench of the High Court has appointed advocate Karunanidhi as commissioner to report on the alleged pollution caused by a quarry near Dindigul. Gunasekaran of T Pudukottai in Oddanchathiram taluk of Dindigul district in his public interest petition had said that quarrying in hillock at Polikadu was not to be permitted; but on Nov 29, 2007, the district administration granted permission for quarrying.
-
Hot weather brings summer smog
Levels of ozone reached their highest point of the year so far as the UK bathed in warm sunny weather last weekend. Pollution levels were high across the UK on Saturday (Copyright AEA and Defra) Members of the public were urged to cut back on unnecessary car journeys to reduce the formation of ground-level ozone, and warned to avoid exercising outdoors in the afternoon to reduce exposure. Monitoring stations at several locations measured high levels of ozone as temperatures soared above 25 degrees Celsius in many areas.
-
Global Warming To Deplete Great Lakes More - Report
- Global warming will likely drain more water from the Great Lakes and pose added pollution threats to the region's vulnerable ecosystem, environmental groups said in a report issued on Wednesday. Climate change could further reduce scant ice cover observed in recent winters, increasing evaporation rates and dropping water levels in the five lakes that collectively make up 20 percent of the world's surface fresh water.
-
CPI yatra to protest coastal corridor
Visakhapatnam July 10: The state unit of CPI has decided to stage a month-long padayatra from Itchapuram in Srikakulam district to Nellore to protest against the proposed coastal corridor. The former MLA and state president of the AP Rythu Coolie Sangham, Mr K. Ramakrishna said in a meeting that the CPI would stall the project. The meeting on
-
Illegal abattoirs to face pollution fine
Hyderabad, July 22: Illegal abattoirs are causing pollution at Amberpet, New Bhoiguda and Gowlipura localities. Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation authorities (GHMC) have claimed that over 700 cases were booked in the last three months and Rs 1.5 lakh fine was collected from the violators.
-
Discharge of Industrial Waste into Streams
Majithia heads panel, to report in 7 days As discharge of industrial waste into streams water of which is used for drinking has become a burning issue in the state, Punjab government has set up a committee in this regard. Bikram Singh Majithia minister for science, technology and environment will head the panel and submit a report in a week.
-
400 Years Of Dhaka : Dense, dirty, dying Dhaka
Lying on a bed at the labour unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), Rita Begum is indeed very happy and proud. She has become mother of an angel like baby girl. The child is now safe under her mother's observant eyes. But how will she grow up in a city of pollution, over population and traffic mismanagement?
-
Environmental rating of Indian caustic-chlorine sector
An exhaustive life cycle analysis of players in the Indian caustic chlorine sector and its impact on environment. Deals extensively with the alarming issue of mercy pollution, its deadly effects. A comparative study with the global scenario.
-
India world's third biggest CO2 emitter
Press Trust Of India / Miami September 01, 2008, 0:13 IST India is the third biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, with state-owned NTPC topping the list of companies belching the deadly gas, according to the new data released by a Washington-based think-tank, which has advocated an
-
Our vanishing night
Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky, where it's not wanted, instead of focusing it downward, where it is. Ill-designed lighting washes out the darkness of night and radically alters the light levels