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 …
Mass movement The number of mass rapid transit (MRT) stations in Singapore has done away with the need to own a vehicle PARTICULARS PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION Percentage of Singapore population living within walking distance of MRT station 30.0 Percentage of Singapore population living within 1 kilometre of the MRT line …
Overcoming auto dependence: the Singapore way TRAFFIC CALMING FAVORING ALTERNATE MODES ECONOMIC PENALTIES NON-AUTO- DEPENDENT LAND USES To start with, less space to make roads to cater to private cars. Heavy investment in mass rapid transit systems. High cost of car ownership and use through high taxes on cars and …
Before buying a car in Singapore, it is mandatory to first buy a right to own a car. The "Certificate of Entitlement" system introduced in 1994 requires would-be car owners to bid for the right to buy a vehicle. The prospective owner will first have to buy the certificate. The …
Peak hour traffic scenario in India is a cartoonist's delight. Hassled motorists, rivers of sweat streaming down their forehead, accusing each other for lack of traffic sense in loud voices toned by the honking of a thousand horns. This is not so in Singapore. It is almost legendary now that …
a large study of 90 cities in the us confirms the relationship between pm 10 - airborne particles smaller than 10 microgrammes in diameter - and total mortality linked with cardiovascular and respiratory deaths. The study, conducted jointly by the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and the Harvard …
The Goa High Court has passed important judgements aimed at protecting the state's coastal ecology. It has rejected the high tide line for the coastline in south Goa, which had been marked by the state government without consulting the Union government. Procedural functions have been formulated for the state officials …
Forest fires raging in various parts of Indonesia have led to the country's air pollution reaching hazardous level. The smog has spread to parts of neighboring Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. The fire has been allegedly set by farmers and plantation owners to clear the bushes. Antung Deddy of the Environmental …
the 52nd annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( iwc ) was 'business as usual', riddled with controversy over resumption of whaling. At this year's convention, held from July 3-6 in Adelaide, Australia, the establishment of a South Pacific whale sanctuary became the bone of contention between pro and …
for fans of Star Trek and other science fiction stories, travel by spacecraft at speeds exceeding the speed of light is routine. But in the real world, the speed of light in vacuum (300,000 metres per second), sets the upper limit to the speed at which information can be transferred …
The environmental pressure group Greenpeace has announced that on an average, 1,342 Greeks die every year due to air pollution, more than half of them in the capital Athens. "Up to 80 per cent of the air pollution in Greece comes from cars," says Stelios Psomas of Greenpeace. "We have …
The Indonesian government has passed a decree, which gives more time to cigarette manu-facturers to comply with the restrictions imposed on tar and nicotine levels. The deadline has been extended from two-years to seven years for machine-rolled cigarettes, and from five years to 10 years for hand-rolled cigarettes. According to …
Hundreds of turtles have laid eggs on the shores of the Trinidad beach. This is the most unusual event in the history of this beach. "Turtles have always nested here, but never more than four or five a season. This year at least 250 to 300 turtles have come," says …
after affecting over one-sixth of the total sal ( Shorea robusta ) forests in Madya Pradesh in 1997, the sal borer is back with a vengeance. According to media reports, at least three million sal trees are affected in Bihar, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. Climatic changes like …
smog is not only suffocating human beings, but is also choking plants. Air pollution is indirectly responsible for the destruction of trees and, for the first time, researchers of Finland have found evidence supporting their argument. According to them, due to air pollution there has been a decline in the …
Exposure to environmental pollutants is known to be harmful to health, in general, and to lungs in particular. In this respect, traffic police are at particular risk due to the nature of their job, since they are exposed to emissions from the vehicles. Here, we show that in the traffic …
even with social activism on the increase, there are cases of powerful industry managing to circumvent rules and bypass procedures to ensure their units get governmental approval to function, regardless of their polluting and degrading natures. An example is Meta Strips Limited (msl), a copper recycling plant, which has got …
humans may be blamed for destroying ecosystems, but in the case of wetlands, they may not be responsible. A recent study reveals that a wetland area in Lancashire, uk, began drying out long before the first human was born. David Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University and his colleague Stephen …
The Guangdong provincial government have ordered the closure of Xing Ye Metal Accessories Corporation and eight other electroplating factories of the Guangzou district. The order came after a local newspaper reported that wastewater, containing cyanide in some cases, was being dumped into the North river. To some, the closure of …
Toxic waste from the Thor Chemicals' mercury processing plant is contaminating the groundwater in KwaZulu-Natal, according to the environment justice networking forum (EJNF) of South Africa. The plant treats and stores toxic waste imported from developed countries in Europe and elsewhere. The state department of environmental affairs and tourism took …
