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 …
After Shimla, use of coal heating stoves and fireplaces are likely to be banned by three other hill stations of Himachal Pradesh. Heating coal stoves and fireplaces were banned in Shimla some eight years ago by the state government cleaning the town's air significantly in winters. Experts say burning of …
Even as Mumbaiites pull out their woolens to tackle the chill in the air, city doctors are busy treating a steady stream of patients suffering from various respiratory problems. There is a drastic rise in such cases during winter, as the increasing levels of smog (combination of smoke and fog …
In the face of stiff opposition from the airline industry, the European Union moved forward on Wednesday with plans to impose extra charges on foreign and domestic carriers that pollute too much. "We are showing our determination to fight climate change,' said Europe's environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, who announced the …
As she feeds her hungry baby, Salome the western lowland gorilla is a picture of proud independence. But without a little help from her human friends, she wouldn't have given birth at all. She is the first gorilla in the world to benefit from a fertility treatment normally used by …
Central Pollution Control Board officials said steps should be taken immediately to check the rising pollution level in the city. They were speaking at a two-day national seminar on pollution prevention and waste minimisation of small scale industrial units in the city. The seminar was orgainsed by the state Pollution …
Our everyday environments are full of airborne particles that are harmful to varying degrees when inhaled. Particularly damaging to our cellular DNA are the particles from the underground system in Stockholm, Sweden, according to a new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet. "Luckily, most of them do not remain in the …
In less than two months after taking over as president and CEO of $33 billion PepsiCo Inc on October 1, Indra Nooyi came to India with a strategic long term bullishness. "India's hour has indeed arrived,' she said, while noting that it is one of the fastest growing markets in …
Toys that emit sudden loud sounds could harm the ears of kids, warn scientists. This is because the small muscles and neural circuitry that are built into our ears to help protect them from noise cannot act fast enough to save them from very sudden sounds, said Bradford C. Backus …
Air pollution is killing more than half a million people in Asian cities like New Delhi, Kolkata, Kathmandu, Beijing, Dhaka, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, and Shanghai each year and shows no sign of improving as urban centres expand, studies by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) show.
Air pollution remains a threat to health and quality of life in most Asian cities, according to a report supported by the United Nations Environment Programme. This report is based on an international collaborative study carried out by the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York, U.K., the Clean Air Initiative …
After doing away with the use of coal-fired "angithis' in the "queen of hills', the Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board has decided to phase out these traditional heating stoves from other hill stations of the state. The "angithis' or "bukharis', a major source of air pollution, are still being used …
Five southeast Asian countries have recently endorsed a joint plan of action to fight the haze caused by Indonesian forest fires. The haze was at its worse this season, leading to the closure of airports, offices and schools. It affected much of the southeast Asia for months until rains a …
in october 2006, 150 farmers of Yellur village in Udupi district of Karnataka lost 195 hectares (ha) of land. According to Janajagrithi Samiti, a local ngo, the Udupi tehsildar K Muralidhar mutated the certificate of rights in the village title register on verbal instructions from the district collector. "The collector …
This study examines some practical problems of natural resource accounting and highlights the importance of decentralized method of accounting especially for the environmental resource accounting. Detailed case studies are discussed for providing empirical insights in to the suggested methods of accounting. This study discusses a methodology for measuring cost of …
A meeting of the office bearers of the Association of Small Scale Industries, Gangyal led by president Rajesh Jain was held with chairman Pollution Control Board, J&K; at Jammu on Nov. 18 in which member secretary PCB, Regional Director PCB and Other officers of the department also participated.
With the World Health Organisation raising the bar in setting revised air pollution reduction targets, the new cut-off limits for particulate matter, ozone and sulphur dioxide could make for a stiffer challenge in cities like Chennai. WHO recently unveiled its new Air Quality Guidelines with dramatically lower standards for levels …
The united nations said that while China has made progress in increasing access to water for its citizens fighting pollution remains a major challenge.
The us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) has slapped European energy giants Royal Dutch Shell Plc and bp Plc with a combined fine of us $1.5 million on charges of distributing petrol that did not meet the country's legal pollution standards. The usepa sets standards for petrol and diesel under the …
function table() { var popurl="image/20061115/13-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=550,height=200,scrollbars=yes") } villagers and townsfolk of Lalkuan, Bindukhatta, Pantnagar, Kichha, Bazpur and Kashipur in Uttaranchal's terai belt are beset by water and air pollution. The districts of Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar have a number of red-category (most polluting) paper and pulp units and …
