State says water bodies not to be put to other use
Giving a fresh lease of life to all the ponds, lakes, talavadis and other water bodies in Gujarat, the state government has assured that 'now onwards' it will not allow conversion of water bodies to
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Floating people pollute Dhanmondi Lake waters causing health hazards to residents
Dhanmondi lake in Dhaka another major water body stretched out in the city's prime residential area, remains apparently quite unattended by the authority the same reason what recently caused a big
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Buddha flays cops for Salt lake landfill
Any attempt to fill up wetlands will be firmly dealt with chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said. Lashing out at the manner in which a waterbody covering over 100 bighas in Salt Lake, had been
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NALMS award to Bhoj wetland project
The North American lake Management Society (NALMS), USA has conferred the NALMS 2001 achievement award for technical merit for the year 2001 to the Bhoj Wetland Project, under implementation in the
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Minamata scare in Tanzania
A Tanzanian environmentalist has raised the spectre of Minamata disease resulting from alleged mercury pollution in Lake Victoria. The culprits, are nearby gold mines. A well-known Tanzanian activist
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Reduced North Atlantic deep water coeval with the glacial lake Agassiz freshwater outburst
An outstanding climate anomaly 8200 years before the present (B.P.) in the North Atlantic is commonly postulated to be the result of weakened overturning circulation triggered by a freshwater outburst. New stable isotopic and sedimentological records from a northwest Atlantic sediment core reveal that the most prominent Holocene anomaly in bottom water chemistry and flow speed in the deep limb of the Atlantic overturning circulation begins at '8.38 thousand years B.P., coeval with the catastrophic drainage of Lake Agassiz.
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India
Trespassers moved: The glory of Dal lake is being revived. Thirteen hotels situated in the lake area are being shifted to Humhama near the Srinagar airport. The land to be allotted to hotel owners
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Salvinia weed a thorn in flesh for birds at Carambolim lake
The dreades Salvinia weed which has choked the already shrunken Carambolim lake, continues to take it's toll. Flocks of exotic migratory birds from Siberia and other countries which frequent the
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Evaluation of biomonitoring approach to study lake contamination by accumulation of trace element in selected aquatic macrophyte
A biomonitoring study was carried out at Kanewal reservoir, an internationally important wetland listed in Asian Directory of Wetlands, designated as a "Wetland of National Importance' and a proposed community reserve of Gujarat State, India, to ascertain the degree of trace element contamination. The study focused on assessment of trace element contamination in certain aquatic
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Terrestrial essential climate variables for climate change assessment, mitigation and adaptation
This report reviews the terrestrial Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), which are endorsed by the UNFCCC and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). Details are provided on why these observations are needed to understand the causes of climate change, analyse the potential impacts, evaluate the adaptation options and enable characterization of extreme events such as floods, droughts and heat waves.
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Farmers group formed for lake conservation
As many as 54 farmers of Mugalia Chaap, Intkhedi and Lakhapur villages (Madhya Pradesh) have formed farmers groups for carrying lake conservation activities in their villages. These groups will adopt
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Cadavers in the water
The thousands of corpses of the brutal gun and machete civil war in Rwanda have been dumped into the second largest fresh water lake in the world.
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Disaster film screened on dam
On the evening of October 9 1963 part of a mountain collapsed into an artificial lake in north-east Italy. The resulting tidal wave leapt over what was then the world's highest dam and swept more
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Sources for Yellow River drying up
More than 2000 lakes nurturing China's once ferocious Yellow River in the western province of Qinghai are disappearing and causing water shortage for the local people, state-run Xinhua said. Dubbed
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Nothing fishy about water pollution
Excessive concentration of agricultural pesticides was the reason why hundreds of fish perished a few months ago in a lake near Players Building, which houses the Delhi government. Scientists from
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Lake in peril
lake Ontario of Canada is in a perilous condition due to leakage of nuclear waste from a facility managed by Cameco Corporation, the world's big gest supplier of uranium. The leakage of toxic
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Bitter sweet
Streams in UK's Lake District are becoming significantly less acidic. Ed Tipping of the Windermere-based Institute of Freshwater Ecology compared pH (a measure of acidity and alkalinity) levels in
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Tourist hotspot
A combination of Rajput and Mughal architecture, Neermahal was made with lime, stone and multi-coloured ten-tiles in nine years. The palace has 24 rooms. In 1978, the Department of Information,
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Eutrophic gradient in the Dal lake, Kashmir
On the basis of hydrochemical and biological studies, a trophic gradient has been established between the inshore and the offshore areas of the Dal lake. The inshore areas receive large quantities of raw sewage and agricultural runoff as a result of which high nutrient concentration of water and the presence of dense phytoplankton populations have been registered at these sites.
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Ancient lakes are drying up
Volcanic crater lakes in Victoria's Western District, described by scientists as some of the world's best natural rain gauges, are drying up, pointing to the effects of climate change. But another