Noise pollution irks city residents as despite PPCB directions, loudspeakers continue to trouble students. Students preparing for exams are disturbed due to late-night DJs and early morning singing of
On Saturday February 3, 2018, Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri announced to over 60 000 PHD Ministries followers that her ministry was working on ways to introduce a
More than half the number of government aided primary schools in Hoima District risk closure because of absence of sanitary facilities. It has emerged that most of the schools have their pit latrines
Volunteers at the Ebola/Mudslide victims' cemetery at Pa Loko village in the outskirts of Waterloo, Western Area Rural District, have expressed fear that rampant illegal sand mining currently taking place
A High Level Breakfast Meeting was organized on January 27, 2018, by Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) on the theme Empowering Women in Agriculture (EWA) at the margins of the 30th African Union Summit of
The Fall Army Worm (FAW), a destructive and dreadful crop pest which poses a great threat to food security, was spotted in the Gambia some months ago. As a result, the Food and Agriculture Organisation
The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) has ranked Seychelles as the most improved country over the past decade in terms of its climate and energy strategies. This biennial report, produced by
JAKARTA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Thousands of residents in Indonesia's capital have been evacuated due to flooding, Jakarta's governor said on Tuesday, though the level of rivers swollen by the release of water
Tropical forests all over the world are at risk from climate change and deforestation for arable land. Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Thünen-Institute compared losses
The ozone layer - which protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation - is recovering at the poles, but unexpected decreases in part of the atmosphere may be preventing recovery at lower latitudes.
New research led by CU Boulder shows that the changing topography of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere during the last Ice Age forced changes in the climate of Antarctica, a previously undocumented
Greenland’s vast ice sheet has long been home to Project Iceworm, an abandoned Cold War-era U.S. Army initiative designed to deploy ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads against the Soviet Union. When
Recently published research in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that setting a price of $20 per metric ton (about $18/short ton) of carbon dioxide could diminish deforestation by nearly
An award-winning method for mapping Indonesia’s vast peatlands, developed by Dutch, German and Indonesian scientists, will help the Southeast Asian nation tackle annual fires that harm health in the region,
Scientists are analyzing ivory samples confiscated from the U.S. retail market to help reduce elephant poaching. Two teams of scientists will use radiocarbon dating to determine when each elephant
All schools in Tehran will remain closed on Tuesday because of dangerously high levels of air pollution blanketing the Iranian capital, authorities said. State television said the closure of primary
SHIMLA: Failure of the authorities to check industrial pollution in Nalagarh area of Solan district is wreaking havoc on residents. A report submitted by the amicus curiae in Himachal Pradesh high court
Khamano (Fatehgarh Sahib): An industrial unit in Fategarh Sahib's Khamao town may just have a solution, that too a profitable one, to end stubble burning in Punjab. Balbir Singh Uppal-owned Lakshmi Energy
PUNE: Dietary risks, high blood pressure, malnutrition and air pollution were the biggest factors that caused most deaths in Maharashtra and added to the state's disability burden in 2016. This was revealed
NEW DELHI: An experimental station being run by the Central Pollution Control Board to monitor some toxic trace gases shows the capital's air doesn't just have very high particulate matter levels, but
