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 …
past studies have shown air pollution affects crop yields. Now a link has emerged between air pollution and plant pathogens. Bart A Fraaije, a plant pathologist at the Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, uk and his colleagues examined data spanning some 160 years and found that industrial emissions directly affect which …
lake on mars: Claims that life exists on Mars were boosted when scientists recently declared they saw the remains of a frozen sea on the planet's surface and speculated the ice may hold preserved organisms. Planetary geologists led by John Murray of Britain's Open University said the evidence comes from …
hawkish control: US president George W Bush has raised a controversy by nominating US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank (WB). Wolfowitz, a staunch supporter of the Iraq war, is considered a neo-conservative, hawkish figure in the Bush administration. Earlier this month, Bush appointed another hardliner, …
On the outskirts of Chittaurgarh city, in district Chittaurgarh, Rajasthan, lies an abandoned mine. Chhatriwali khaan is a huge crater right beside the highway to Udaipur. Suddenly, disquietingly, the flat terrain gives way to a pool of rippling white fluid laced with pink, blue and brown
Rajsamand, 194.6 thousand tonnes per year. Water pollution the slurry causes is a lesser nuisance. The bigger one is air pollution. The slurry contains the following chemicals: loss on ignition (volatile matter from mineral heated to 1000
South Asian emissions of fossil fuel SO2 and black carbon increased 6-fold since 1930, resulting in large atmospheric concentrations of black carbon and other aerosols. This period also witnessed strong negative trends of surface solar radiation, surface evaporation, and summer monsoon rainfall. These changes over India were accompanied by an …
The world's 81 poorest nations will now get more aid. The development fund of the World Bank's (wb's ) International Development Association for providing aid to these countries was recently raised from us $23 billion to us $34 billion. This is the biggest increase in funding for the programme in …
Indonesian capital Jakarta, the city with the world's third worst air quality after Mexico and Bangkok, will ostensibly reap the benefits of an air pollution bylaw soon. But what is unfortunate is the removal of a crucial provision for vehicular emission cut in the final bylaw approved recently by Jakarta's …
Nigeria's Adamawa state recently witnessed a weeklong fierce battle between nomadic herdsmen and farmers. In the deadliest of these clashes, ethnic Fulani herdsmen attacked the farming village of Bali, killing 28 people. At least 30 people were killed in all. "Farmers in the area complain that cattle graze on their …
qingqi (pronounced as ching chee) rickshaws are the latest addition to the unorganised public transport system of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (nwfp) . These polluting vehicles have grown substantially in numbers in nwfp in the past one year despite a ban on their registration in …
october 1, 2004 was a watershed for India. On that day, countrywide, a new set of emission norms for in-use vehicles came into existence. Putting it mildly, they were well thought out. For it took the executive over a decade to change the in-use emission norms, since inception. The norms …
The objective of this article is to evaluate (via modeling) the impact of different pollution control scenarios on the shape of the income-emissions relationship. The simulation of emissions and emission controls was conducted using the Climate Change Risk Assessment Framework, which projects SO2 and NOxemissions from energy consumption and conversion …
Mcdonald's in danger: The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled on January 25, 2005, that the two teenagers who had filed a case against fast food giant McDonald's Corporation (Illinois) in 2003, blaming it for their obesity, were entitled to move forward with the lawsuit. The …
an apple a day: Consumption of fruits and vegetables reduces the incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer, according to a study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The researchers estimate that 2.6 million people die per year due to inadequate fruit and vegetable intake. Consuming …
the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) is facing severe criticism from environmentalists and traditional family farms for its proposal that ostensibly aims to reduce pollution in large-scale farms, also known as factory farms. The agency has proposed that it will not sue factory farms for violations of environmental laws in …
Italy is trying new ways to reduce air pollution. On January 16, 2005, car traffic was banned for several hours in many Italian cities. People used public transport, bicycles and even horses to commute during the ban period. Many preferred to walk. Rome maintained a five-hour ban, starting at 10 …
