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 …
Whereas European cities are making an effort to return to walking and cycling through innovative ways of pedestrianisation and car-restraint policies, the tradition of cycling and walking is being squeezed out of Asian cities. Only Japan and Singapore are making some efforts to revive these practices. In Chinese cities, where …
l Trials will be conducted under the aegis of ICAR under different agro-climatic conditions. l Will address field-level integrated pest and varietal management issues. l MAHYCO can conduct field trials on farmers' fields in an area of about 100 hectares under close supervision of GEAC and Monitoring and Evaluation Committee …
Poaching has become very common in Zambia's largest national park due to a severe shortage of supervising officers. The Kafue National Park has less than 500 officials. Environmentalists say that at least 2,000 officials are needed to watch over a park spread over 24,440 square kilometres. "Kafue has been severely …
exposure to elevated levels of fine particles from automobiles for just two hours raises the likelihood of heart attack according to a recent study in the journal Circulation. Murray Mittleman, director of cardiovascular epidemiology at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, us , who led the study said previous studies …
the California Air Resources Board ( carb ) has approved over us $600,000 for two research projects aimed at studying the effects of air pollution on children's health. The projects are important as they will evaluate the impacts of both compressed natural gas buses ( cng ) and diesel buses …
The current emission standards and safety measures for conversion of in-use vehicles to CNG are extremely lax. The emission standards only require the vehicles to meet the equivalent standards for diesel and petrol vehicles in force in the year of manufacture. This means that a pre-1996 vehicle after being converted …
China, in general, is an energy-scarce country. The country’s main energy source is coal, which meets 75 per cent of the demand and makes China the largest producer and consumer of coal. Yet the per capita coal reserves are less than half the world average. In the past, the government …
Remember the cartoon of the European explorer in North America, waving an axe to clear forests while moving towards the west coast a few centuries ago? The slogan "exploring the west' in China has a similar ring in the ear. China now has its eyes fixed upon its wild, barren …
China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines are the most polluted countries in Asia, while Singapore, Malaysia and Japan are the cleanest, indicates a recent survey. The Hong-Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Limited (PERC) conducted the survey. In the survey, emigrants living in 12 Asian countries and territories rated …
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has proposed to set up a US $98 million fund to help the world's least developed countries (LDCs) improve the safety and quality of their food products. The fund would be set up with voluntary contributions from bilateral and multilateral donors, officials of …
Two US states and three environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alleging that the agency has failed to offer an adequate plan to cut toxic pollution. According to the lawsuit filed in the US federal court, a new EPA rule has left hundreds …
Officials in Hong Kong have completed their slaughtering operation to contain the spread to a flu caused by the H5N1 strain of avian influenza virus. At least 1.4 million birds were slaughtered during the operation (see
a nearly complete view of the world's air pollution has been recently assembled by the National Aeronautical Space Administration ( nasa ). The images reveal expansive clouds of carbon monoxide and other air pollutants over continents and oceans worldwide. The major sources of these pollutants include air pollution from forest …
More than 500,000 tonnes of obsolete pesticides are threatening the environment and the health of millions of people in almost all developing countries, warns the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Asia accounts for 200,000 tonnes of these pesticides, Africa for 100,000 tonnes and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent …
Clean Air for Europe (cafe), a programme recently launched by the European Commission, aims to disseminate information about air pollution and prepare the European Union for 2004, when many of the existing air quality directives will require revision. The programme is the first strategy announced as part of the commission's …
the European parliament has made amendments in a draft law making electronic equipment manufacturers responsible for recycling their products. The law will cover all electronic goods used in the European countries. It will encourage production of ecofriendly products that can be easily reused or recycled. "Manufacturers and consumers are going …
The government of Congo has imposed a ban on shark fishing. "Our aim is to curb large-scale poaching of sharks that is endangering them,' said officials of the forest economy and fishing resource ministry. It is important to regulate shark fishing as their species have a low biological reproduction capacity, …
Bangkok's residents will have some respite from air pollution. O20, the city's first oxygen bar, offers everyone an opportunity to breathe in fresh air for 20 minutes along with hearing recorded sounds of birds and waterfalls. "Whenever the residents have fever or a headache this can help,' claims Pattaya Luengvarinkul, …
a proposal entailing schools across southern California, to replace diesel buses with ones using cleaner fuels has been approved by the South Coast Air Quality Management District ( aqmd ) board. "Our young people deserve the best we can provide both in terms of environment and education,' said William Burke, …
