Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
THE Indian Coast Guard averted a major oil disaster after it swiftly swung into action following a heavy fuel leak from a merchant vessel anchored off the Orissa coast on Wednesday. MV Malavika, owned by the Essar Shipping Private limited, was anchored off Gopalpur on Monday. The ship's tank number …
BERHAMPUR/PARADIP: With the operation to remove the spilled oil in full swing at Gopalpur, the apprehension of an environmental disaster has been minimised to a great extent. Some quantity of oil leaked from mv Malabika bringing coal from Indonesia after it collided with a berth at the port yesterday. Though …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO The Gopalpur Port authorities on Wednes- day engaged 200 local peo- ple to clean the oil-silts from the local beach that was inundated by a thick layer of petroleum fuel leaking out of a cargo ship docked in the port.
BERHAMPUR: Oil spill from a coal-laden ship at Gopalpur port on Monday night has triggered panic and environmental concern. Around nine tonnes of oil is spreading in the area. The slick has spread to Rushikulya mouth and there are apprehensions that it may enter Chilika posing danger to the marine …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO and RASHME SEHGAL A huge thick layer of oil washed up at the mouth of the Rushikulya river on the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday morning, endangering the local marine flora and fauna and particularly Orissa's famed Olive Ridley sea turtles. The sea water turned completely black …
ASHME SEHGAL Six workers were April 1: Six workers were killed in a major fire caused by an oil spill in the sea waters of Alang beach. The oil spill is reported to have been caused by a leak in a ship called Shantamani Enterprise which is docked on the …
The potential of Vigna subterranean commonly called Bambara beans for phytoextraction of copper in a crude oil contaminated soil was investigated. The contamination levels of crude oil in the soil for this pot experiment were 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10% (w/v). Amendments were added to increase the uptake and …
Water characteristics of Kandla creek, monitored seasonally from 2002 to 2006 at four locations (mouth, cargo jetty, oil jetty and junction), indicated significant increases in nutrients, petroleum hydrocarbons (PHc) and phenols from anthropogenic additions, while increases in turbidity, total suspended solids (TSS) and salinity from natural effects. Principal Component Analyses …
At least 6.5 hectares of paddy and other crops have been affected in Sivasagar district due to leakage of pipelines. Although there is no major leakage of crude oil from the wells of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in Sivasagar district, however, due to old condition of the pipeline …
A pusher tug, a small barge that propels a bigger vessel, drowned in the Hooghly near Prinsep Ghat on Friday night, releasing oil into the river. Attempts to salvage barge Bhagadutta, owned by the Assam government, was supposed to start today, according to what Calcutta Port Trust officials had said.
A pusher tug, a small barge that propels a bigger vessel, drowned in the Hooghly near Prinsep Ghat on Friday night, releasing oil into the river. Attempts to salvage barge Bhagadutta, owned by the Assam government, might start from Monday, Calcutta Port Trust officials said.
Role of marine bacteria viz. Marinococcus albus, Methylobacterium mesophilicum and Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in bioremediation of crude oil contaminated Alang sea coast has been evaluated in the present study. Optimum concentrations of inorganic nutrients N, P & K as urea, super phos and potash fertilizers respectively on growth and degradation has …
ROME: An oil spill that fouled a small river in northern Italy reached the Po River on Wednesday, with officials warning of an ecological disaster as they scrambled to contain the sludge before it contaminated Italy
Hydrocarbon-inducible cytochrome P4501A (CYP1A) expression was measured, as ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) activity, in livers of wintering harlequin ducks (Histrionicus histrionicus) captured in areas of Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, oiled by the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill and in birds from nearby unoiled areas, during 2005 to 2009 (up to 20 years …
Mumbai: The oil spill in Mahul creek a couple of weeks ago has taken its toll. The city has lost a winged visitor. While the flamingo died on Tuesday, another bird is battling for life at the SPCA hospital, Parel. Some fishermen from Sewri found the affected bird in the …
THE Coast Guard Pollution Response Team, which made an aerial survey of the sea where a thin film of oil was first found on Friday, has reported that the shoreline where the sea deposited the oil, needs to be cleaned up using the Shoreline Cleanup Method. A Coast Guard Dornier …
A pipeline oil leak that led to fuel flowing into a major branch of the Yellow river has been brought under control, China National Petroleum Corporation has said. The leak took place in northwest China's Shaanxi province. The company said on Saturday that it has immediately shut down the pipeline …
