Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
China expects newly centralised management of the once-mighty Yellow River to allow more efficient use of its dwindling flow, but efforts to cut waste could be undermined by a reluctance to raise water prices. Beijing implemented rules intended to revive a river that has faded to a shadow of the …
US scientists have found antibacterial soaps and washes are not any better than plain soap and water in killing germs at homes. An advisory panel on non-prescription drugs to the Food and Drug Administration, the US, in its report on October 20, 2005, said studies showed clear benefits from hand …
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increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are turning the oceans acidic, warns the Royal Society, Britain's leading scientific organisation. The growing acidity is very likely to harm coral reefs and other marine life by the end of the century, the society said in a report prepared by a panel of …
us scientists have found an ingenious use for empty plastic bottles. Instead of disposing them in landfills, the non-biodegradable waste can be used to make engine oil for cars, say researchers at the University of Kentucky and the Chevron Energy Technology Company. They converted the plastic bottles into high-grade oil, …
The Rhododendron tree is a poet's inspiration and a health freak's delight. It enjoys the status of being the state flower of Nepal, Sikkim, Uttaranchal, and the us states of Washington and West Virginia. Around 110 species of the evergreen tree are found in India. The flowers of most species …
Desperate attempts by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to find a landfill site for solid waste disposal have hit a new roadblock. Even as some members of the Ridge Management Board strongly objected to MCD's suggestion for proposing a part of Bhatti mines area as a landfill site, a recent …
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh is the first chief minister in the country, who has been using bio-fuel in his vehicle and he said, "My Tata Safari is giving proper mileage and the bio-diesel is a trouble-free fuel as it has never given any problem anywhere.' Before running the vehicle …
a recent study mapping the municipal solid waste (msw) produced and dumped in Guwahati, the chaotic capital of Assam, has shown its waste disposal system is getting choked and the city needs to quickly find a scientifically determined alternative to get out of the mess. The study used geographic information …
if people in Africa were to switch to charcoal as cooking fuel from wood, it would not only significantly reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions but also save millions of lives, claim researchers. Led by Dan Kammen of the University of California, Berkeley, the scientists calculated the health and environmental effects …
the three million Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (ao) have received a severe judicial defeat. us district judge Jack B Weinstein dismissed their case in Brooklyn, New York, on March 10, 2005 saying that ao and similar herbicides cannot be considered poisons banned under international rules of war. Weinstein also …
Solid Waste Management is an integral part of the Environment Management of each city. Due to rapid growth of urban population, as well as constraint in resources, the management of municipal solid waste poses a difficult and complex problem for the society and its improper management gravely affects the public …
for long, the South Indian elephant population ranging the forests has been treated as one collective. Now, studies conducted by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science have shown that there exists a genetic difference between the elephants in the Nilgiri mountain range and those free-ranging in the Anamalai and …
Ragpickers are solely responsible for manually separating non-biodegradable wastes from garbage bins in cities. "They play a vital role in the economy of solid waste recycling process. They feed the need of intermediary buyers, who, in turn, meet the demand of factories using recyclable solid waste as raw materials,' points …
Time was when terrorism was the biggest problem for the people of Tripura. Then came garbage. Waste disposal facilities in the state, particularly in the urban areas, are woefully inadequate. A look at the waste management in Agartala, the state capital, illustrates the enormity of the problem. Spread over 52 …
The outward expansion of larger metros, gradual changes in land use and occupations have transformed the rural hinterland into semi-urban or ‘peri-urban’ areas. Inhabitants of these ‘peri-urban’ regions are increasingly threatened by a deteriorating quality of life prompted by deforestation, water depletion and pollution as well as by the poor …
During 2000, the estimated quantity of solid waste generated in Delhi, India was more than 9000 tones per day. This is one of the biggest sources of environmental degradation in capital city of India. Since 1950's over 12 large landfill have been packed with all kinds of nonbiodegradable and toxic …
even as the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy is observed, the toxic substances stored in the ill-fated Union Carbide factory continue contaminating the site. But there is hope of a cleanup once a us federal court, looking into the issue, pins down the responsibility on us-based Dow …
The second volume of Mid-Term Report of the Kerala Sustainable Development Project for Kochi submitted to the Corporation on Thursday by experts appointed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) presented projects worth Rs 282 crore for providing the loan, which had to repaid at an interest rate of nine percent …
September 30, 2004. Eleven trucks carrying imported metal scrap trundled into Sahibabad-based Bhushan Steels and Stripes Limited (BSSL), a steel smelting and rolling unit. One of them exploded, killing 10 workers
