Some 1.3 million people living in the lake area of Huaihe, China's fourth largest freshwater lake, have witnessed a resurgence of the local fishing industry resulting from the success of the ongoing
China has speeded up pollution control in the Dianchi Lake, the sixth largest of China's fresh water lakes in southwestern Yunnan Province, to welcome the World Horticulture Exposition, which takes
Nearly 10000 poachers in the peripheral villages of Chilka lake(Orissa) have decided against killing birds. Around 2 million migratory birds visit Chilka lake every year and of them nearly 8 to 10
The apprehension that the Gulshan Lake in Bangladesh would once turn into a killing field for most of the species living in water has come true. So contaminated is the lake's water that fish are
The Orissa government's plan to have a comprehensive legislation to control fishing activities inside Chilka lake, Asia's biggest brackish water lake, has already run into a rough weather following
Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ordered the closure of centaur Lake View hotel forth-with for causing widespread pollution in the world-famous Dal Lake in Srinagar. The court, in its verdict, also
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ordered the closure of Centaur Lake View Hotel for causing widespread pollution in the Dal Lake in Srinagar. The court also directed the Pollution Control Board
The old ghosts of Porur lake have returned to haunt it. Nearly nine months ago, there were reports about massive fish mortality in the lake. Now, the situation has gone from bad to worse, residents
How excess nutrients can kill a lake
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,
As the Tatas try to counter public opposition to their prawn farm, the environment ministry looks on passively.
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.
<p>Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan, Dec 2013 Erratic climate change events have hit the rice production in Pakistan this year and to take account of damages, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its end-of-the-season report has downgraded its production forecast for the country by 600,000 tonnes to 8.7 million tonnes (5.8m tonnes, milled basis). Read more in this December 2013 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan</p>
Scientists from the Laboratory of Marine Hydrology, Montpellier University in France have discovered the smallest algal species in the Than Lake, near the Mediterranean Sea (Technical News, No
The Sikkim government has decided to scrap the Chu hydel project
Untreated domestic and industrial effluents is polluting Bangalore s Ballandur lake
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
healthy milk: Consuming non-fat (skimmed) milk products can halve the risk of hypertension, claims a study by scientists at the University of Navarra, Spain, and Alvaro Alonso, a researcher in the
Researchers are studying a weather phenomenon that can trap pollutants in urban mountain valleys in the hope of creating better forecasting methods and lessening the impact of the pollution on
bacco off the shelf: Thailand has taken a strong step against tobacco sales in the country. They ordered vendors in September to remove all cigarettes from display or risk a US $50,000 fine.
