The Environment Agency had 17 flood warnings in place on Tuesday morning, two in the north-east, 12 in the north-west and three in Wales. These are one step below the severest category which warns of risk
Move is aimed at check-mating mafia which has been mining sand unchecked from rivers and lakes The Karnataka government has proposed a new sand policy to check the operations of the sand mafia. This will replace the present one formulated by the previous BJP government.
mumbai Floating for days in the Powai lake, a dead crocodile was finally removed on Wednesday evening and buried near the bank, without a postmortem as the carcass was too far decomposed.
Like other mountainous areas, Nepal is highly vulnerable to glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), and this vulnerability has increased due to climate change. Risk reduction strategies must be based on
Manmade climate change was partly responsible for Storm Desmond’s torrential rain which devastated parts of Scotland, the Lake District and Northern Ireland, scientists have concluded. The researchers
A dock stands dry on drought-stricken Donner Lake near Truckee, California, December 4, 2015. An El Nino is forecasted for California, and regular precipitation has been welcomed after years of drought.
Hussainsagar suffered a condition called hypoxia on September 29! Sources said that analysis of samples drawn from the lake by the State Pollution Control Board to study the effect of immersing Ganesh idols in the lake on September 29 revealed that the dissolved oxygen (DO) count (the amount of oxygen dissolved in a water body) was less than 1 mg/litre. It should ideally be more than 10mg/litre to sustain marine life, but the Hussainsagar has always had much less, around 4 mg/litre.
Mumbai: It is raining, and more importantly, it is raining in catchment areas. The lake levels are going up steadily. All this is good news.
The geochemical investigation of sediments deposited in the Renuka Lake basin and its adjoining wetland has shown variation in the distribution and concentration of major, trace and REEs.
THANE: The city of lakes has enough alternate sources of water to ackle the non-potable usage till next rains. The hidden underground springs across Thane district have accumulated enough water, which
The US Centers for Disease Control has been accused of withholding data related to health risks in and around the Great Lakes area. But the agency says the report, pairing toxin concentrations with human health concerns, which was due out last year, had "deficiencies'.
11 Chemical Units Had Been Sealed For Dumping Effluents Into Lake
BERHAMPUR: Many migratory birds flocking Chilika Lake, the biggest waterfowl habitat in the country, are staying back in the lake instead of returning to their original nests in summer, according to a study.
Lying 4,700m above sea level on the Tibetan plateau is Namtso Lake. It is held as holy by the region's Tibetan population and every year thousands of pilgrims walk around its shores. As one of the largest
A TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION * Chandigarh Admn, Haryana Govt share the blame for its sorry state * Much of lake catchment area denuded, check dams silted over * Pernicious weed throttling Sukhna, poor rainfall another woe Sanjeev Singh Bariana & Smriti Sharma Vasudeva Chandigarh, June 2
Two Delhi-based agencies have agreed to act as consultants to save nine
By 2080, the world s lakes will experience a temperature change of up to 6.7 c caused by greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study by the uk based Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
The Planning Commission today approved a Rs 6,600 crore Annual Plan for Jammu and Kashmir for 2011-12, Rs 600 crore higher than the last year
Water in the Vembanad lake and Pampa river turns saline ALAPPUZHA: Even as the threat of floods that loomed over the water-logged Kuttanad seems to have receded, the people are now up against another recurrent scourge.
The Karnataka high court on Monday directed the counsels representing both the state as well central government to ascertain by Wednesday the steps taken in the matter of implementation of the directions
