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 …
as long as it remained a hit-and-run campaign, the "clean city, green city' programme of Thiruvananthapuram City Corporation offended nobody. But a rural-urban conflict has arisen after a plant to handle solid waste from the state capital was set up at Vilappilsala in Vilappil Gram Panchayat (Vilappil village council). The …
According to tests announced recently by Britain's Consumers' Association, using a hands-free earpiece with a mobile phone may channel more microwave radiation into your head than holding the phone up to your ear. Earlier tests have found that hands-free kits cut the amount of radiation. But tests on five types …
The Clinton administration has approved new regulations that are expected to cut air pollution from heavy-duty trucks and buses by more than 90 per cent over the next decade. The federal standards will require new large trucks and buses to meet stringent tailpipe emission limits and direct refiners to produce …
The authors conducted a cross-sectional study among residents of Delhi to determine the role of ambient air pollution in chronic respiratory morbidity in Delhi. The authors selected a random, stratified sample (N = 4,171) of permanent residents who were 18+ y of age and who lived near 1 of the …
This unpublished CPCB report on “Mercury balance in Thermal Power Plants in Singrauli” received by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) through RTI is exclusively available here. An attempt was made in this study to investigate the fate of mercury during burning of coal in thermal plants and to prepare …
This unpublished CPCB report on “Mercury balance in Thermal Power Plants in Singrauli” received by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) through RTI is exclusively available here. An attempt was made in this study to investigate the fate of mercury during burning of coal in thermal plants and to prepare …
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has been launched by Govt. of lndia for promoting urban reforms and investments in the selected 63 cities of India. Ludhiana is one of the eligible cities. CDP is a requirement to access the funds under JNNURM as per the guidelines. A set …
Mexico is a country that does not believe in resting on its laurels. This is the first year in the past decade that Mexico city did not experience a smog alert. But that did not stop Mexico City's environment secretary, Aaron Mastache, to lower the threshold for smog alerts and …
Alcohol is responsible for a liver disorder that affects around one in four people in developed countries. Though the causes are not clear, but livers of alcoholics have identical symptoms. Ann Mae Diehl of the Johns Hopkins University, USA, believes that food stays in the intestines of obese people longer …
the profit-driven polluting automobile industry, that fought the us Environmental Protection Agency's ( usepa ) efforts to implement strict air quality standards, got a snub recently when a re-evaluation of the studies
scientists have imitated a key process that might have triggered the beginning and end of the ice ages and also could solve the present day problem of carbon emissions. An international team of scientists working on the Southern Ocean Iron Release Experiment ( soiree ) has "fertilised' a part of …
The wild orangutan, humankind's third-closest living relative, could become extinct in the next 20 years. Habitat destruction is threatening their existence, says Birut
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced a new programme of Mars exploration that aims to proceed at a "more methodical and leisurely pace'. Till now two missions have failed. Going by the new schedule, researchers will have to wait for at least a dozen years before …
Residents convene a village meeting. The proposal is approved. In another meeting, the users are identified. They form the users' group that becomes the nodal body in implementing the project. The users' group select a working committee that looks after the day-to-day operation of the project. Site selection is done …
Besides the chattering of Kalashnikovs, rhythmic sounds of the centuries-old wooden turbines of the numerous gharats echo in the hills of Kashmir. The guns may one day fall silent in the valley, but not the gharats . Since the seventh century, it has been in use for grinding and oil …
Industrial plants in the us are causing extensive dioxin pollution in Nunavut, a remote area in the Arctic. Dioxin is one of the most carcinogenic substances known to humankind. A report of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, an intergovernmental organisation set up jointly by Canada, USA and Mexico, …
Europe may be contributing significantly to pollution in Asia during winters. Reginald Newell and Mathew Evans of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigated how much pollution reaches Asia from sources across the Pacific Ocean. A detailed analysis revealed that every year in January and February, 30-40 per cent of the …
a device for capturing and recovering dilute volatile organic compounds and other hazardous air pollutants has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, usa . "The new vapour-recovery system is fast, convenient and can achieve new levels of air quality control,' says Mark Rood, a professor of civil …
