Thames water misses official leakage control targets
Thames Water, the uk's biggest water company, has once again missed its official leakage control targets, despite growing pressure on water resources in Southern England and continuing drought in
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Zimbabwe
Pollution could be the cause of a distressing disease that is killing African elephants by paralysing their trunks. Experts from the uk have been called to investigate the disease, known
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Chilika documentary fails to make a point
Oriya film maker Prithwiraj Mishra's documentary is impressive for its photography, but he fails to deal convincingly with the question of the future of the lagoon.
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Only look for answers
I happened to attend, recently, a jan sunwai peoples court on water, convened by the National Federation of Indian Women. Women came from over 15 states to report on the state of their water.
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Meltdown
Latest NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) satellite maps reveal that most of the world's glaciers are shrinking. Rick Wessels of the US Geographical Survey, based in Arizona,
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Stuffed to death
How excess nutrients can kill a lake
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Pakistan State of the Environment Report : The Monthly Overview, September 2013
<p>The provincial government has prepared a plan to make Lahore free from pollution and work on it will be started very soon. The increasing Himalayan wolf population in buffer zone area of Chitral’s Gol National Park in Pakistan, continues to attack and devour bulls of local farmers on the pasture where they are left to graze freely for months in summer season. Read more in this first Monthly Pakistan State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. September 2013 Edition is out! Download, Read and Share. Happy reading!</p>
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Tatas canvass public support for prawn project
As the Tatas try to counter public opposition to their prawn farm, the environment ministry looks on passively.
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In short
food Light too affects drinks Conventional methods to test the shelf life of products, say on retail displays, focus on heat and ignore the effect of light. Scientists exposed a soft drink containing saffron to different levels of light at rising temperatures. They found that the beverage grew lighter in colour as the intensity of the light increased, confirming that light can cause a
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Tata Power to conduct study for 500mw project
Tata Power Ltd, with agressive growth plans, is in the process of conducting a feasibility study for a 500-mw power plant at Ville, near the TPC-owned Bhivpuri lake (Bhivpuri lake is behind the
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FOLLOW UP
The Chilika lake is still dying. But there are indications that once the Ramsar International Mission submits its report, the lagoon may be out of the Montreaux Record. The joint secretary, union
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Will children's argument on Powai lake hold water?
It's kiddie power that is surging forward to save Powai lake and its surroundings from turning into a commercial hub, on Chilren's Day. More than 500 children will gather on the banks of the lake to
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A great lake fills with filth
Pollution may soon kill South America's largest lake Maracaibo (Venezuela). The lake is forested with oil derricks, crowded with tankers, and saturated with sewage and chemicals. "The toxic level is
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4 more birds die in Mysore lake
Even before the Pollution Control Board could come out with details behind the death of 40 migratory birds in Lingambudhi lake, another four birds were found dead at the lake on
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Greens see greed, neglect tainting Siberia's pearl
- Shimmering between the Siberian taiga and the mountainous Mongolian border, Lake Baikal is the crescent-shaped jewel in Russia's rusting ecological crown. The world's deepest, oldest major lake is
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Ecologists fearing for Lake Baikal
Shimmering between the Siberian taiga and the mountainous Mongolian border, Lake Baikal is a crescent-shaped jewel in Russia's rusting ecological crown.The world's deepest, oldest major lake is home
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Kolleru freshwater lake is clinically dead
Kolleru is clinically dead, if the finding of a recent research study on the Asia's largest freshwater lake is taken into account. Several studies in the past had revealed that the lake was polluted
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Clean Dal Lake if you want votes, say boatmen
Boatmen of the Dal Lake have set a condition to political parties if they want them to vote in the coming elections: clean the picturesque lake which is in danger of being destroyed. There are more
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Chilka lake under threat from prawn mafia
Asia's largest brackish water lake, Chilka, is under threat due to large-scale 'fishy' operation by 'prawn mafia' in and around the lake. By encroaching over thousands of acres of land and water area
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Toxic bloom hits Gippsland lakes
A toxic blue-green algal bloom is spreading across the Gippsland lakes (Australia), with signs being erected from Metung to Lakes Entrance warning against swimming and fishing. The bloom, so far