Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The WWF contracted RPS Applied Science Associates to model 22 different oil spill scenarios and map the spread of the oil, potential impact on the water and shoreline, and interaction with sea ice, wildlife and the surrounding ecology. Types of oil spills analyzed included shipping spills, shallow-water blowouts and deep-water …
The tar ball phenomenon in Goa could be due to oil exploration activities from offshore oil installations, natural phenomenon from sea bed or from sea going vessels passing through the area. In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar said tar balls have been …
The Beaufort Sea is a unique ocean environment that covers approximately 476,000 km² (184,000 sq. mi), spanning the Canadian-U.S. border and stretching across the northern coasts of Alaska, Yukon and the western Northwest Territories. This remote sea has always been dominated by sea ice. However, as the Arctic warms due …
Parables help us make sense of a mysterious world. Slow and steady, the tortoise teaches the hare a lesson in overconfidence. David has a surprise for towering Goliath. Lawyers and environmental activists fighting Chevron (CVX) in a closely watched oil pollution case in Ecuador invoke an inherently appealing theme of …
Fish are rising to the surface of the water to breathe in the canal of Tulatoli area at Sitakunda as the oil spill from a derailed train Wednesday contaminated the water. Md Abdul Motaleb, a school goer, was seen standing beside the canal with a handful of fish yesterday morning. …
Government on Wednesday rejected studies of WHO and Yale University which talked about India and its cities being among the most polluted, asserting that the parameters for determining air pollution were not considered by them. Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said pollution is caused by many factors and the survey …
The furnace oil that spilled from the derailed wagons of Bangladesh Railways travelled to arable lands, canals and ponds of nearby areas, jeopardising the eco-system of the area, leaving a negative impact on fisheries and the fertility of the land. On Wednesday, rail communication between Chittagong and the rest of …
Oil that matches the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been found in the bodies of sickened fish, according to a team of Florida scientists who studied the oil's chemical composition. "We matched up the oil in the livers and flesh with Deepwater Horizon like a …
Javadekar said the government will find out whether pollution, specially through tar balls, was created by an ulterior design by countries which wanted to destroy tourism Asserting that Narendra Modi Government was committed to "development without destruction", Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said a high-level panel would assess reasons behind …
With Goa tar balls phenomenon getting wider attention of environmentalists and parliamentarians, the Center on Tuesday announced calling a high-level meeting of stakeholders, including experts from across the country, later this month to find out exact reason of the deposition of polluting substances along the state coasts every year during …
THE Senate yesterday urged the Federal Government to ensure that Chevron Nigeria Limited adequately compensates the communities within the coastal areas to mitigate the impact of its oil rig explosion and fire. Deliberating on a motion sponsored by Senator Emmanuel Paulker on “Ocean Surge in Coastal Areas and Consequences For …
AN entreaty has been made to the National Assembly to exercise its oversight powers by constructively engaging the Federal Government and Shell to implement the recommendations of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on Ogoniland. A member of the national conference and the Executive Director of the Social Development …
The Goa govern ment has asked its pollution control board to find out the source of the tar balls phenomenon on the state beach es. The board is also expected to recommend how to end this polluting menace. “I have asked the State Pollution Control Board to study the real …
Two Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) field officers were sent on Wednesday to collect samples of tar balls that were found by joggers on vast stretches of Juhu beach on Tuesday morning. TOI had reported on the presence of tar balls. While officials claimed it was a regular monsoon activity, …
After more than a year of delays, BP has paid the first 100 of about 10,000 medical claims filed by Gulf Coast residents and cleanup workers affected by the 2010 oil spill. Payments to cover the costs of treatment for skin and respiratory ailments and other human-health impacts from the …
Indigenous people call off action following meeting with ministers over their ‘failure’ to aid to contaminated communities Peruvian ministers have met with representatives of hundreds of indigenous people from the country’s Amazon rainforest after they threatened to go on hunger strike in protest at what they say is government failure …
Governments should set a five-year deadline to crack down on over-fishing and pollution or parts of the oceans may have to be declared off-limits to industrial fishing, an expert commission said on Tuesday. The Global Ocean Commission, a group of senior politicians formed in 2013, urged rescue measures including a …
PyagbaraTHE Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has blamed the failure of successive Nigerian government to enforce relevant oil industry laws to put the oil and gas companies in check for degradation of the Niger Delta environment. MOSOP President, Legborsi Pyagbara, said irrespective of the United Nations …
Royal Dutch Shell is ready to pay up to 30 million pounds ($51 million) in compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in 2008 after a London court rejected a larger claim, sources involved in the case said on Friday. Around 15,000 residents of the Bodo community in the Niger …
Oil tankers follow Marpol regulations, cannot discharge large quantities of oil' Ruling out the possibility that crude oil tankers carrying South East Asian Crude Oil (Seaco) could be discharging oil-laced water into the Arabian Sea, officials from the Indian Coast Guard strongly believe that oil leaks from drilling rigs along …
