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 …
Residents of Zamdela town in the Sasolburg province of South Africa are fighting against air pollution. Under the apartheid rule, many petrochemical plants and oil refineries located in Zamdela were not disclosing information regarding their pollutant emissions. But now the situation is changing. With the help of environmental organisations, the …
The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) recently filed a case in a federal court to dismiss an electric industry lawsuit, which would stop it from regulating mercury and other toxic air pollutants. In 2000, USEPA had announced that a standard was needed for such power plant emissions because of the …
When a spring is compressed, it returns to its original shape. This property of materials is called positive stiffness. On the other hand a material with
In this paper the authors have estimated for 1990 and 1995 the inventory of greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O for India at a national and sub-regional district level. The district level estimates are important for improving the national inventories as well as for developing sound mitigation strategies at manageable …
The most visible impact of air pollution is the haze, a brownish layer of pollutants and particles from biomass burning and industrial emissions, that pervades most regions in Asia. A recent international study, the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), has revealed that this haze is transported far beyond the source region, …
A study of structural chromosomal aberration frequencies in peripheral blood lymphocytes was performed in a group of 20 professional drivers exposed to airborne pollutants and 20 matching controls. The subjects in the latter group were of the same sex (males) and of similar age as the exposed ones, and also …
As governance formally surrendered the administration of Delhi to chaos on All Fools' Day, April 1, 2001, the fate of its citizens' health and public transport continued to hang in balance. Ministers and politicians had a field day blaming each other for the chaos and rioting that broke out on …
Butter could help monitor airborne pollution. Scientists at the University of Lancaster, UK, have used butter to track persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and other chemicals. When these pollutants get deposited on the ground cows consume them and the compounds accumulate in dairy fat. The researchers' analysis of commercial butter samples …
Emission of hazardous gases and chemicals by brick kilns are a cause for concern in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. Their numbers have risen rapidly over the years across the valley. "But the present laws are not adequate to punish the owners of these kilns who have illegally set up …
To gain control over protected forestlandloggers may have deliberately wiped out some 22 million monarch butterflies. The butterflies migrate annually from Canada to Mexico during the winter. Homero Aridjishead of Group of 100an environmental lobby based in the usclaims that loggers had sprayed pesticides on the orange and black-coloured butterflies …
cipla Limited of Mumbai has invited the wrath of multinationals companies (mncs) for offering to sell aids drugs at a cheap prices. The company proposes to sell the medicines to non-government organisations and doctors who would then distribute it in South Africa, where aids cases are high. The lowest price …
Environmentalists in Kenya have decided to file a lawsuit against the government on charges of deforestation. The forest forum sub-committee, an umbrella organisation of environmentalists, wants the government to annul its proposal to use 67,582 hectares of forestland in Rift Valley and central provinces for farming activities. Francis Nyenze, the …
Pesticides whose quality is far below internationally accepted standards are posing health hazards, two UN agencies have warned. Around 30 per cent of pesticides sold in developing countries, that have an estimated market value of US $900 million annually, do not meet safety standards, said the UN Food and Agriculture …
gravity pulls together objects of all sizes. It's easily observable in case of planets and other celestial bodies that are spaced wide apart but its difficult to observe its effects on minute masses that are kept close. Scientists at the University of Washington, usa, have verified the working of the …
ddt (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane) content in fish stocks from Ganga is 16,000 times more than the permissible limit. This was revealed during a study conducted by R K Sinha, a senior investigator of the Ganga pollution-monitoring project. The Patna University, Bihar, is coordinating the project. "I found that the fish contained …
although the importance of Himalaya-Karakoram as the largest storehouse of fresh water in the lower latitudes, and the important role of their snow and ice in maintaining the flows of the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra during the lean period was well perceived and understood since ancient times, scientific …
a recent West Bengal pollution control board (wpcb) report states that respirable suspended particulate matter (rspm) is the biggest concern for the city. "Though rspm has come down from 176 microgrammes per cubic metre (
catalytic converters, meant to clean up car exhausts, are polluting the environment. A group of Italian and French researchers have found traces of heavy metals emitted from the devices in remote regions of Greenland. Seth Dunn of the Worldwatch Institute, a non-governmental organisation based in Washington dc, usa, says, "They …
a mystery disease afflicted Siliguri in West Bengal in February, 2001 and claimed 39 lives. The disease, with symptoms such as high fever, respiratory problems and paralysis, caught the city's medical and civic system unaware. As the panic spread, shops and schools were closed. "The situation got worse when doctors …
