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 …
An environmental group sued Canada for failing to meet its Kyoto Protocol obligation to cut greenhouse gases (GHG) in the country. The Canada chapter of an international NGO, Friends of the Earth (FOE), filed a lawsuit in the Ottawa federal court on May 29. They claimed that a clause in …
There is a large uncertainty in the relative roles of human land use, climate change and carbon dioxide fertilization in changing desert dust source strength over the past 100 years, and the overall sign of human impacts on dust is not known. We used visibility data from meteorological stations in …
toxic organic compounds of tin, called organotins used as plastic stabilisers, catalysts, preservatives, and anti-fungicides in paints, enter the environment and pose a threat to human health because of their toxicity and long life. So far, they remained untraced as there was no way to detect organotins in the environment. …
Diesel cars are expected to corner 50 per cent of the Indian car market by 2010. 2010 is also the Indian government's target year for putting into place European emission standards. The target was set by the auto fuel policy of 2002. It appears to be an unlikely one with …
it's a turnaround of trends. Summers in Delhi are now more polluted than winters. Reason: the nature of vehicular and domestic emissions has changed, leading to production of more oxides of nitrogen
a malaria vaccine tried out in Mali in 2003 was not suited to protect people from the pathogen prevalent in the area, according to a joint study by researchers in Mali and the us. The researchers studied samples from people in Bandiagara, a rural town in northeastern Mali, and found …
us scientists have produced a device that could potentially screen patients for lung cancer. The new device works from a known principal: lung cancer cells give off different chemicals known as volatile organic compounds (vocs), that healthy cells don't. Earlier experiments had established that dogs with their heightened sense of …
My worst fears are coming true; and that has more to do with the politics of climate change than its reality. While concern on global warming reaches a crescendo, the world, instead of finding resolutions, is hurtling towards discord and dispute. Let us be clear: we do not have time …
As far as public protests go, Puducherry, formerly Pondicherry, has generally been a backwater. But the government's resolve to fast-track a deep-water port, upgrading the existing fair-weather port, has provoked a chorus of protests from citizens across the board
new fossil finds in the Vindhyan basin in central India have, for the first time, fixed the age of the evolutionarily significant mountain basin, not very long ago considered palaentologically dead. In the first record of extensive fossil assemblage unearthed from the basin, Chirananda De of the Geological Survey of …
why are humans the only primates without fur? The answer, new research suggests, could be the rampant practice of infanticide among stone-age women, who killed their furry children and reared only those born
On April 12, 2007, the us government decided to relax emission norms for ethanol plants that are based on corn and other carbohydrate feedstock. The new rule is expected to boost ethanol production in the us. Previously, plants producing fuel-additive ethanol were allowed to emit 100 tonnes of air pollutants …
bowing to an aggressive us offensive, the Indian government recently allowed the import of the us's iconic Harley Davidson bikes. The decision, which came on April 13, 2007, is part of a deal that exempts all bikes with an engine displacement size of more than 800 cc from meeting Indian …
partnership for Clean Indoor Air (pcia) is inviting partners in India to help implement measures to reduce indoor air pollution. This will help almost 90 per cent of India's biomass-based fuel users who suffer from health hazards. About 400,000 premature deaths occur annually in the country due to this. pcia, …
The latest report on conservation and development of the river Yangtze has found that water pollution along China's longest river is increasing. In fact, large parts of the river have been irreversibly polluted, the report notes. The 270-page Yangtze Conservation and Development Report, jointly issued by the Chinese Academy of …
To meet India's annual growth rate of 7-8 per cent, coal is expected to maintain its dominant share of the electricity generation fuel mix. It is estimated that up to 80-100 million tonnes of flyash is produced each year by the low-quality coal used in India; however, only 10 per …
Pesticide Sector comprises many processing units which adopt different technologies, equipments, unit process and unit operations for manufacturing various products. The manufacturing processes lead to generation of a wide spectrum of air pollutants, mainly inorganic hazardous air pollutants. Some of these pollutants are toxic, responsible for damage of materials and …
