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 …
This article examines the question of how to interpret a relationship between income and carbon emissions in a country (the environmental kuznets curve [EKC] for carbon). A very simple and graphical structural model of an EKC is developed, and the problems of applying the concept to carbon are discussed. A …
Country-level analyses of global Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) relationships that use multicountry panel data sets are likely to suffer from several types of aggregation bias that may explain why previous studies have yielded conflicting results. The authors analyze 1990 cross-sectional data for the United States for three pollutants and test …
The elevated concentration of Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM, PM10) in the ambient air is a major cause of health problem and urban people are affected at risk on exposure. http://www.springerlink.com/content/y076tm584r52u511/
A flock of pigeons wearing mobile phone-style backpacks are to be used as air-pollution monitors in the us, reports New Scientist. The 20 pigeons will each carry a Global Positioning System satellite tracking receiver, air pollution sensors (capable of detecting carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide) and a basic mobile phone …
This article analyses the implementation of the Ganga Action Plan and the various reasons for its failure in the highly polluted villages of Jajmau, clustered near Kanpur city.
The World Bank (wb) has frozen Chad's oil pipeline account claiming that it violated a loan agreement. The wb was angry with a new law giving the Chad government more access to profits from the pipeline, which takes oil to Cameroon for exports. Some of the profits are to be …
An accidental chlorine gas leakage caused panic in downtown Scarborough in Tobago recently. Chemicals used for treating an abandoned sewer plant on the eTeck Mall compound, formerly the tidco Mall, at Sangster's Hill in Lower Scarborough, was responsible for the leakage. Lower Scarborough had to be shut down for the …
scientists in the us have found that air pollution and a high-fat diet can together cause atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries) in laboratory mice. The findings are significant as the fine particulate concentrations used in the study were well within the range found in metropolitan areas. Conducted by the Mount Sinai …
A large body of epidemiologic literature has found an association of increased fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) with acute and chronic mortality. The effect of improvements in particle exposure is less clear. Earlier analysis of the Harvard Six Cities adult cohort study showed an association between long-term ambient PM2.5 and …
Increasing air pollution in the Iranian capital Tehran, forced its government to announce a two-day holiday in an attempt to reduce traffic on the city's streets. An official tv broadcast urged people not to drive to work but use public transport, since air pollution had reached dangerous levels. The authorities …
europe is set to regulate fine particles less than 2.5 micrometres (pm2.5 ) through a proposal put forward in the European parliament recently. This regulation is a part of the European Commission's (ec) Clean Air Strategy
This paper discusses both occupational health risks to workers and environmental health risks to residents and workers. Because worker exposure times are shorter than resident exposure times, some risks may be less for workers than for residents. On the other hand, contaminant levels to which workers are exposed can be …
Many people believe that nonmotorized modes (walking, cycling, and their variations) have an inferior right to use public roads compared with motor vehicles. This reflects the belief that motor vehicles are more important to society than nonmotorized modes, and that roads are funded by motorists. Pedestrians and cyclists are sometimes …
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission has been launched by Govt. of India in the year 2005-2006 to carry out development of selected city. To access the funds under JNNURM, the selected city is required to prepare City Development Plans (CDPs) and implement the reforms at the state and the …
The cement industry is India's ultimate sunshine industry. Up until the 1980s, it was not growing phenomenally. Now it is. After cement was decontrolled in 1989, the industry took off
function graph() { var popurl="image/20051231/36_graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=250,height=250,scrollbars=yes") } Cement manufacturing is a dry process: from mining limestone to packaging cement. An average cement plant handles and stores millions of tonnes of raw material annually. The dust it generates makes the cement industry excessively polluting. Dust emissions are of two kinds
Though the Delhi Government's experiment to run public transport on compressed natural gas (CNG) in the Capital might have been successful, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is yet to fulfil its promise of constructing cost-effective CNG-run crematoria across the city. The civic body had formulated an ambitious project to construct …
INDIANS ELECTED: Two Indian scientists, Goverdhan Mehta and Anupam Varma, have been elected to the International Council for Science (ICSU) regional committee for Asia and the Pacific. Mehta, former director of the Indian Institute of Science and vice chancellor of the University of Hyderabad, has been elected president of the …
a university of Southern California led study has found air pollution poses almost three times greater danger to health than previously thought. The study by a team of American and Canadian researchers was based on almost two decades of data on chronic health effects of particulate matter less than 2.5 …
