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 …
RIGHTS ISSUE: A patent on atta chakkis (flour mills). It sure was unexpected. But it's been granted. The latest victim of the patent rights regime is the Asian traditional knowledge of producing atta. The US patent office has given patent rights to Nebraska-based ConAgra Inc for the "method for producing …
I smelt the air of Ahmedabad city this week. It took me back to the time when Delhi's air was much the same. When breathing was like wheezing, and everyone complained about constantly feeling ill. Delhi is a little better now. The air has less poison. But it was like …
Judicial activism in the Supreme Court has created major reforms in the protection of human rights and has put the court in a unique position to intervene when it sees violations of these fundamental rights. In 1998 the Indian Supreme Court, embracing its activist role, made a controversial order mandating …
The detrimental effects of air pollution on health have been recognized for most of the last century. Effective legislation has led to a change in the nature of the air pollutants in outdoor air in developed countries, while combustion of raw fuels in the indoor environment remains a major health …
This paper presents maps of anthropogenic Hg emissions worldwide within a 1°×1° latitude/longitude grid system in 1995. As such, the paper is designed for modelers simulating the Hg transport within air masses and Hg deposition to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Maps of total Hg emissions and its three main chemical …
Automobiles contribute significantly to the air pollution problem in urban areas. Their emissions account for approximately 60% of the total pollution in developed countries and about 80% in the developing countries. http://www.springerlink.com/content/4nf6m8nqd7e3m5qb/
Exposure to air pollution affects pulmonary functions adversely. Effect of exposure to pollution on diurnal variation of peak flow was assessed in healthy students. Three hundred healthy age-matched nonsmoker students were studied. They were categorized into two groups on the basis of their residence: commuters and living on campus. Peak …
This is a report on the status of the implementation of the Supreme Court orders on preventing truck traffic from entering Delhi that are not destined for loading or offloading in the city. The Hon
Using genes from mangrove plants, scientists from the Chennai-based M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MMSRF) are developing transgenic varieties of rice, mustard and black gram that can withstand salinity and drought conditions. The scientists have isolated and characterised the salt-resistant genes from two mangrove species
• Of the 38 countries in Africa, the percentage of people living with low sustainability has gone up from 34.1 per cent in 1975-84 to 54 per cent in 1995-2000 • Only three countries, accounting for 6.5 per cent of the continent's population, have recorded relatively high overall sustainability during …
wildfires that scorched parts of Indonesian forests in 1997 spewed as much carbon into the atmosphere as the planet's biosphere absorbs in a year. This claim has been made by researchers of uk-based University of Leicester. According to them, the forest fires released about 2.6 billion metric tonnes of carbon, …
populations of many fish may lose genetic diversity even if fishing were to be stopped now, claim researchers from the University of Washington, usa. The findings are alarming. Losing diversity of key genes would render fish populations less productive, and unable to adapt when faced with challenges like global warming, …
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is facing a different kind of danger. Runoffs from the sugarcane fields along the 2,000-kilometre-long coastal strip that runs parallel to the reef are said to increase soil acidity in the area, a problem serious enough to rival the better-known blight of dryland salinity. Highlighting this, …
The Karnataka government has reiterated its commitment to control the growing air pollution in Bangalore. One of the steps it plans to take soon is the banning of 15-year-old transport vehicles in the city. Though no deadline has been set for the same, state transport minister Ramanath Rai has given …
Four oil companies - Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Reliance Industries - have signed a memorandum with industry and scientific institutions for a study on "appropriate solutions" to air pollution. They will jointly pay for this study, which they say is necessary because current approaches …
In 2000, a risk assessment of IAP (indoor air pollution) due to household use of solid fuels in India was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Smith 2000). Employing a different and more systematic method than used before, it estimated the premature deaths and illnesses resulting …
• It is now evident that health risks related to consumption are on the rise. Some suffer from plenty, others from scarcity. • Among the 170 million underweight children in poor countries, over 3 million will die this year • Among the 300 million clinically obese people, half a million …
A study of 900 adolescents living in Delhi and surrounding areas such as Sohna and Rewari in Haryana has once reinforced that exposure to air pollution is one of the main perpetrators of asthma. According to the study conducted by researchers from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, children residing …
