Illegal pollution checking centres crop up on NH-8
Several illegal pollution checking centres have mushroomed on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in the district. The centres neither have the licence to operate nor have the machine to check pollution level
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Why India needs to urgently worry about migration caused by climate change
The significance of rural-urban migration will rise in future as agriculture-dependent livelihoods come under increasing climatic stress The World Bank recently released an important report on climate
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Home truths at conclave on climate
Patna: Maize, paddy and lentil are three potential climate resilient crops for Bihar, according to a report by Action on Climate Today that was presented on the concluding day of the two-day East India
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Siemens Gamesa bags 150 MW wind project order from ReNew Power
Renewable solution provider Siemens Gamesa today said it has bagged a wind energy order from ReNew Power for construction of 150 MW wind farm in Gujarat. "Siemens Gamesa, the renewable energy leader
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Malaria spreading faster than dengue in Delhi; 40 cases so far this season
Dengue and chikungunya aren’t the only mosquito-borne diseases people in Delhi need to be wary of. Malaria, which is spread by Anopheles mosquitoes that can breed in dirty water, is spreading fast too.
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Capital cost for $4.5 trillion infra investment a challenge, says Piyush Goyal
Creating infrastructure will need a whopping USD 4.5 trillion investments over the next decade and the cost of the money will be a challenge, interim finance minister Piyush Goyal said today. The minister,
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National Health Profile 2018: Here’s how well India is healthwise
The document gathers its data from the Directorate of health and family welfare of all the States and Union Territories, Central Government Organisations, National Health Programmes and other concerned
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Early warning system to predict dengue possible by mining data: Study
A new study has shown that an early warning system may be developed to predict dengue outbreaks by mining meteorological and epidemiological data for a given geographic area. In the study, scientists
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Malaria alert! Disease spreading faster than dengue in Delhi, 40 cases reported, says municipal report
At least 11 fresh cases of malaria have been reported during the past week in Delhi, pushing the total number of people affected by the vector-borne disease this season to 40, according to a municipal
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Viral hepatitis causes more deaths than AIDS and tuberculosis
The liver is a vital organ that processes nutrients, filters blood and fights infections. ‘Hepatitis’ means inflammation of the liver. When the liver is inflamed, in due course it ends up in scarring
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DM drafts educational booklet on environment for schoolkids
Bareilly: Having found little information on environment-related issues in the syllabus of schoolchildren, district magistrate Virendra Kumar Singh has decided to draft an educational booklet to address
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Pollution causing malnutrition in trees
Pollution is changing the fungi that provide mineral nutrients to tree roots, causing plants in Europe to become malnutritioned, a study has found. To get nutrients from the soil, trees host fungi,
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West Bengal: Five killed in lightning strikes, one drowns; alert issued in districts
Sources at state secretariat, Nabanna, said, they had a control room from where the chief minister would monitor the situation across the state. According to a source, all district magistrates have been
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No tree felling in south Delhi till July 4: NBCC
‘You know the effect it would have... Can Delhi afford it today,’ asks HC about cutting over 16,500 trees The National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC), tasked with redeveloping half a dozen
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Climate change meet ends with focus on agri & water
PATNA: The two-day East India Climate Change Conclave organized by the state environment and forest department concluded here on Saturday with three brainstorming technical sessions on climate resilient
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Mumbai records best-ever air quality at 13 since June 2015
Even as rains continued to lash the city on Monday, it marked the best recorded overall Air Quality Index (AQI) since air quality monitoring began in June 2015 for the city at 13. As per System of Air
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North may turn into a ‘dust bowl’
As North India awaits its share of Southwest monsoon, do weather occurrences in the pre-monsoon period this year (unprecedentedly violent dust storms and thunderstorms) a forewarning of an impending ecological
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Beyond crop per drop: assessing agricultural water productivity and efficiency in a maturing water economy
With growing water scarcity in many parts of the world and projections that indicate the need to increase agricultural production and, concurrently, agricultural water use, it is increasingly advocated
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Agricultural innovations, production, and household welfare in Africa
Although the impact of the adoption of agricultural innovations has been the subject of extensive investigations, its relationship with indicators of farm production and household welfare remains ambiguous
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The European Commission's proposed CO2 standards for heavy-duty vehicles
On May 17, 2018, the European Commission released a regulatory proposal for setting the first ever carbon dioxide (CO2) emission standards for new heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) sold in the European Union.